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Follow the path to the ocean and then work your way south and east to the corner of Bacon St. and Santa Monica Ave. where Pizza Port Ocean Beach (1956 Bacon St.,
pizzaport.com) awaits. Now is the time to enjoy a pint or two with plenty of pizza. After 35 miles, you deserve it. Once you’ve had your fill it’s a quick and easy ride back to the Old Town Transit
Center. Head north on Bacon Street back to the Ocean Beach Bike Path and ride east. After you cross under Interstate 5, ride up to Pacific Coast Highway and head south - the Old Town Transit Center is less than half a mile away.
Just a word of warning: we don’t recommend riding while intoxicated - not only is it against the law and dangerous, this ride would be pretty miserable if you were drunk.
PubQuest’s Beercycling Adventures
Local beermappers and avid bicyclists PubQuest have started organizing “Beer- cycling” adventures. Currently, their Tour de Breweries focuses on the Highway 78 and visits 5-6 breweries while covering 18-21 miles in around 6 hours. Each tour includes a PubQuest Beer Map, and the next tour is being planned for Mira- mar brewery circuit. For more info and to sign up, contact
Julie@pubquest.com
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Hollywood’s The Surly Goat (7929 Santa Monica Blvd,
surlygoat.com) will make you feel right at home with its beer-centricity, kickback atmosphere and a name much like North Park’s Smoking Goat restaurant. While the majority of their stock is from big name craft breweries both local and European, a good percentage of those are seasonal and they also carry a nice stock of local suds. Using adjective-attached animals as a segue, The Lazy Ox Cantina (241 S. San Pedro St., lazyoxcanteen. com) in Little Tokyo is a spot that’s hot right now, more for creative food than drink, but they haven’t ignored the latter by any stretch. At a place where you’re bound to wait awhile for a table, it’s nice to have something delicious to nurse while doing so. In fact, thanks to craft beer-dealing distributing companies and their ever-deep- ening penetration of the restaurant industry, restos are becoming drinkers’ best bet for getting the good stuff. LA, after all, is a top-tier dining city and entrepreneurs follow the money. In Los Angeles, that means you follow eaters willing to shell out for good eats. And since food costs usually make edibles a pretty break-even commodity, alcohol’s where the profit’s at.
This is as true of gourmet establishments as burger joints, making for a varied field for beer seekers. LA eateries onboard with this trend include the infamous and, hence, constantly-mobbed Father’s Office outposts in Santa Monica (1018 Montana Ave.) and Culver City (3229 Helms Ave.,
fathersoffice.com) and Santa Monica’s Library Alehouse (2911 Main St.,
libraryalehouse.com), where they’ve had a brew specialist on hand amassing a lengthy beer list for over a decade. Studio City offers a duo of diverse spots comprised of Boneyard Bistro (13539 Ventura Blvd., boneyard-
bistro.com), where bistro and BBQ menus coexist and share space with a four-page beer list, and 8½ Taverna (11334 Moorpark St.,
8andahalf.com), which specializes in Italian dishes and birra del mestiere. There’s also the simple fare and solid liquid refreshment at Simmzy’s (229 Manhattan Beach Blvd.,
simmzys.com) in Manhattan Beach, and few places will get you more in a San Diego state of mind as Blue Palms Brewhouse (6124 Hollywood Blvd,
bluepalmsbrewhouse.com), where they have our beers on tap and regularly let our breweries do tap takeovers. Of course, if you ab- solutely must have a taste of home, there’s always Karl Strauss Brewing Co. (1000 Universal Studios Blvd,
karlstrauss.com) at the Universal City Walk, where you’re less likely to catch flack over that Padres cap or Phillip Rivers jersey.
Author’s Note: Big props go out to Cambria from Drink Eat Travel (drinkeattravel. com) who served as my initial guide to the finer things in LA when I was a complete stranger in a strange land.
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