Highland Park
Venues and stops in this neighborhood
Places
12 places · 5 venues · 7 stopsEverything we cover in Highland Park, A to Z. Pick a venue for what is on, or a stop for somewhere to be before or after.
Anya Schodorf, who is from Nicaragua, and her husband Matthew opened this on York Boulevard in 2008. The house drinks lean Central American, including horchata with espresso and a latte campesino built on piloncillo, cinnamon, anise and orange peel.
Daily, 7am to 5pm
A twenty-two foot fiberglass figure with a boy's body and a chicken's head, made in 1969 for a fried chicken stand on Broadway downtown. When the stand closed the statue sat in storage for twenty-three years until designer Amy Inouye bought it and put it on the roof of her Future Studio on Figueroa in 2007. It is a marked stop on Historic Route 66.
Visible from the sidewalk at any hour. The gallery below keeps limited and irregular hours
A family-run place on York that has been serving Highland Park for more than twenty years. The huarache is the reason to go, a long oval of fried masa with beans inside, crema and cheese on top and a choice of meat. Jonathan Gold named it in the Los Angeles Times list of essential restaurants in 2008 and it stayed on.
Daily, roughly 8am to 8pm. Listings disagree on the closing time and on whether it shuts on Wednesdays, so call first
A family grocery that started downtown in 1897 and moved to York Boulevard in 1955, which John Nese turned over to bottled soda in the 1990s. Several hundred flavors fill every aisle, most of them small-batch or regional, and there is a sandwich counter at the back.
Mon to Sat 9am to 6pm. Sun 9am to 4pm
An all-vinyl shop on Figueroa carrying new and used stock across rock, jazz, soul, hip hop, country, Latin, blues and punk. Small enough to work through in half an hour.
Mon to Sat noon to 7pm. Sun noon to 6pm
A 1927 building that held a pharmacy upstairs and eight bowling lanes below during Prohibition. The 1933 Group restored it and reopened in 2016, uncovering the bow truss ceiling and a 1930s mural. Lanes go as two-hour booked packages and the bar takes walk-ins.
Bar Mon to Thu 5pm to midnight, Fri 5pm to 2am, Sat noon to 2am, Sun noon to midnight. All ages before 8pm, 21 and over after
Named for a station on the Mexico City metro and cooking the food of that city, including pambazos, flautas and chilaquiles from nine in the morning. Carnitas run on weekends only, in eight separate cuts including snout, ear, skin and stomach.
Mon to Thu 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat 9am to 10pm. Sun 9am to 9pm