Culver City Has Become A Desirable L.A. Destination

Bars, Restaurants & A Hip Historic Hotel In Los Angeles

By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger

If it’s possible to become largely unrecognized in Los Angeles, then Culver City has managed to do it.

And in L.A., that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Culver City is like being in the loge section of a sports arena or concert venue. It’s not the best seat in the house, but it’s a pleasant place to be with good sight lines and close enough to see the action without being on top of it.

Located in kind of a “tweener” section of Los Angeles – that is, to say, between the much more heralded areas of Santa Monica and Beverly Hills – Culver City is hip without being Hollywood.

Along its main street, Culver Blvd., are a row of cafes of restaurants and bars, along with a Trader Joe’s and the Arclight cinemas. The centerpiece of it all is the recently revamped Culver Hotel, which is such a landmark property it has its own road signs pointing to it.

The Culver Hotel is a boutique place with an outstanding restaurant, a side patio that’s like a Paris sidewalk cafe and a really cool lounge that’s a vibrant nightlife hangout.

It’s also said to be haunted by Mr. Culver himself, city founder Harry Culver. How’s that for adding a little spice to your cocktail!?

Culver City also has L.A.’s top Seattle Seahawks bar, a dive bar across from Sony Studios called The Backstage.

It has a Metro stop station that goes to USC, downtown and Santa Monica and a bus from Marina del Rey, meaning it’s the modern-day equivalent of a whistle-stop town in the middle of a big city.

All this is not news to those who work at the Culver City studios and live in the area, but it would come as quite of a surprise to people in other parts of Los Angeles.

To much of L.A., Culver City is that quirky little town with the odd-angled streets they pass through on the way to somewhere else. The place where you see people sitting outdoors at those cafes while you’re stopped at a traffic light and say “someday, I would like to explore this place.”

Well PubClub.com recommends the next time you’re passing through, you pull up and stay a while, starting at the Culver Hotel.

Culver Hotel Address: 9400 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA

Culver Hotel Website: www.culverhotel.com