Super Bowl: Super Specials

Go Saints!

With the Super Bowl coming up (Yay Reggie!), it is only appropriate that we include a post on some great Super Bowl events around town. You can head to the regular sports bar spots (Cabo, Q's, Barney's, Busby's) where I'm sure they will have drink specials or take a trip to Culver City for some great deals at Rush Street and Gyenari.

Rush Street has always been a favorite of ours, really great burgers and nice atmosphere.  For Super Bowl Sunday, Rush St has a special Super Bowl menu and drink specials all day (including $4 draft beer).  They will also have kareoke and the best part, a beer pong tourney after the game is over (so you can relive your college glory days...then again who am I kidding, we've been out of college for 3 years and still play beer pong). Rush St is equipped with 10 TVs and will have the sound on throughout the restaurant so you won't miss a thing. The place will probably get crowded so call ahead to make your reservation!

If Rush St is too packed you can also walk next door (or maybe its a couple doors down), to Gyenari. Gyenari is not your typical sports bar but they will be having a Super Happy Hour in honor of Sunday's big game.  In their lounge, Gyenari will have $10 Korean BBQ special (YUM), and $2 bottles of Hite.  They will be showing the game on the plasmas in the lounge as well as on a 100 inch screen in the dining room.

If you know of any other great Super Bowl specials, feel free to leave us your comments!

Rush Street. 9546 Washington Boulevard. (310) 837.9456
Gyenari. 9540 Washington Boulevard. (310) 838.3131

$4.99 Pitchers - 'Nuf Said

My brother went to Washington State University – a school in the middle of nowhere: Pullman, Washington. Because of its rural locale things are cheap in Pullman. I’ve heard outrageous stories from the bro of $2 beers and $3 pitchers being sold at Denny’s (yes Denny’s!). Unfortunately to take advantage of these amazing prices you must live in Pullman. Not worth the trade off.

Los Angeles is far more expensive - $4 beers are a steal in this city.  But I'll let you in on a little secret: it is possible (I swear) to drink like a WSU undergrad in Los Angeles.

Where you ask?: Gyu Kaku's Happy Hour. During these 7.5 joyous hours (exact hrs. vary by location) pitchers are $4.99 each. Single beers are $.99/ea and there’s a menu of tasty food at Happy Hour prices ($1.99 - $4.99 per item for plates of marinated and ready-to-cook meats and veggies.)

When we went last week we were so impressed by the cheapness of the pitchers that we immediately ordered three pitchers for the four of us to share. Hey, it was 6:15pm so we were in a rush to get orders in and three pitchers was still only the price of one drink at XIV. As it turns out the pitchers were bigger than expected and our eyes were bigger than our livers so we ended up canceling one of the pitchers before it came out. Either way, 2 pitchers of beer, 2 large hot sakes, 4 miso soupss, and 12 plates of food later we had had our fill of food and booze and left sated and happy (at around $25/pp total.) 

Gyu Kaku has locations all over but the one we hit up on Friday was on Pico, near Westside Pavillion. The hours of happiness vary by location but the one on Pico has happy hour from 12pm – 6:30pm, and then again from 9:30pm – 10:30pm (M-Th, its 10:30pm – 11:30pm on F/Sat). If you're not familiar with their set-up (and thus grossed out that I mentioned above ordering uncooked meat), Gyu Kaku is a Japanese BBQ spot that brings you the marinated meats and veggies and then you cook your own food at your table over a little grill.  So now ya know. 

Check out their website for each location’s hours and pricing. 

http://www.gyu-kaku.com/ca/index.htm