Hungry, late, in Santa Monica

After Wednesday’s Bob Dylan concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, I’d planned to try out the late-night menu at Anisette a few blocks away. Well, getting out of the parking garage turned out to be something of a challenge with few cars moving for up to a half hour. My friends had more luck getting out and called from Anisette to say they were no longer serving a late-night menu on weeknights. Who knew? And you’d think the owners would have given it more than a few weeks tryout. It’s as bad as the networks pulling a show after the second week.

Anyway, my Bob Dylan-loving pals called a few minutes later to say they were headed to Voda on Second Street, only to find once they got there that they were no longer serving food at that hour, only drinks.
In the end, we couldn’t think of anyplace nearby to try and so headed to our respective homes. “I’m afraid Santa Monica isn’t London or New York,” someone said. Point taken.

On the way home my husband and I kept trying to come up with something other than Mozza for a late-night snack but couldn’t think of a thing other than the vegan hangout Brite Spot on Sunset Boulevard in Eagle Rock.

We had some warmed-up leftovers and went to bed.

—S. Irene Virbila

Comments

[Frank]

I have been to this place before and it was pretty good. I just moved to the Westwood area and have had a hard time finding restaurants that are that great. I used to use an online site called MrMenu.com based in Arizona and it was been a big help. They offer users the ability to order online and submit the order through the web. It is a pretty cool site. Their Top Rated Restaurants section helps people figure out which restaurants are the best in the area. If you know of a similar service in the 310 area, let me know.

[steve]

you could have gone to toi on wilshire or la cabana on lincoln and rose... both are open till 3 am... and you can always go to izzys which is open 24 hours... so there's no need to starve in santa monica especially when there's also a jack in the box on lincoln that's always hopping late nights...