Meanwhile, Winston promises to get the foursome a table at an ultra-exclusive restaurant that doesn't take reservations. On Feb. 8 2021, in Sea Isle City, demolition begins on the Springfield Inn, making way for a new outdoor bar and restaurant. California is seeing its sharpest increase in cases since the pandemic took hold and Los Angeles County has reported a record number of virus cases in recent days. The café also serves both sausage patties and sausage links, which I appreciate as I do not like links, but LOVE me some patties and most eateries only serve one or the other. To quote the Wikipedia page on the location, “Public urination in the park is illegal but commonplace.”  Yep, that pretty much sums it up! In the Season 1 episode of Dragnet 1967 titled “The Bank Examiner Swindle”, MacArthur Park was where Sgt. The owner ended up convincing us to try an order of the Deep-Fried Whole Chicken, The Prince’s signature dish. And you can follow me on Twitter at @IAMNOTASTALKER. I ended up LOVING it, though, and both the GC and I are now absolutely hooked! Until last Monday evening, that is, when the Grim Cheaper and I finally sat down and started watching it from the beginning. #Idon’tgetlayers! So far, the coronavirus outbreak has sickened more than 106 million people globally. Oh, how times have changed! Indoor dining has been banned for months in the county, but health officials prohibited outdoor dining on Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, “to reduce the possibility for crowding and the potential for exposure.”. beds fill to capacity and cases have increased by 500%. Thank you, GC! titled “Hangman”, Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his FBI team were shot at while setting up security for a political rally at MacArthur Park. The controversy came to a head on Saturday when a restaurant owner shared a video on social media showing tents, tables and chairs set up as a catering station for a film crew — just feet away from her eatery’s similar outdoor dining space, which has sat empty since the restriction went into effect late last month. And a BIG belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to Miss Pinky Lovejoy, of the Thinking Pink blog! Big THANK YOU to fellow stalker Lavonna for asking me to find this location (and for turning me on to New Girl) and to Christine, from OnLocationVacations, for tracking it down! On Tuesday, Mr. Garcetti said he would reopen a coronavirus testing site that had been closed for the filming of a movie featuring Addison Rae, a star on TikTok, after residents criticized its closure. Even though, in real life, the 1923-era house only boasts a scant three bedrooms, three baths, and 2,200 square feet of living space, it sold this past March for just under $1 million! On Feb. 8 2021, in Sea Isle City, demolition begins on the Springfield Inn, making way for a new outdoor bar and restaurant. “As we’ve repeatedly said, their order was arbitrary and targeted restaurants unfairly, without supporting evidence,” Jot Condie, the president, said in a statement. Today, the Arts District is a flourishing mecca of artists and hipsters and boasts fabulous brick buildings, sidewalk cafes and more galleries than you can shake a stick at. In the Season 5 episode of The A-Team titled “The Grey Team”, MacArthur Park was where Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck (Dirk Benedict) and John ‘Hannibal’ Smith (George Peppard) spied on a Soviet agent named Saroff (Tony Steedman). I definitely have apartment envy! And the Beverly Hills City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday calling on the county to repeal the restrictions and directing its staff to explore whether Beverly Hills should create its own health department instead of relying on the county’s. Now that we are all getting used to living in a pandemic, you may have. Another restaurant that appeared on fave show New Girl that I stalked recently was John O’Groats, a tiny breakfast and lunch café in the Rancho Park area of West Los Angeles. Be forewarned, MacArthur Park is not the safest place, especially at night, so please exercise caution. The structure is definitely unique and the most eye-catching on the entire block. You can visit the Pavilion’s official website here. Another restaurant that appeared on fave show New Girl that I stalked recently was John O’Groats, a tiny breakfast and lunch café in the Rancho Park area of West Los Angeles. Protestors outside Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s house after she voted to impose restaurant restrictions. From a scavenger hunt, a family-friendly hike, a solar system walk, and of course, a tour of the featured gardens, you can spend hours enjoying the beautiful scenery. You can check out some photographs of the interior of an actual Binford Building unit here. Oprah Winfrey also taped an interview at John O’Groats with actor Jonah Hill for her 2012 Oscar Special in February of this past year. Jess’ former house only appeared once on the series, in the Season 1 episode titled “Kryptonite”, and thankfully I had already tracked down another location from that episode a few weeks prior – John O’Groats Restaurant in Rancho Park, which I blogged about here. The Windsor Apartments is also where Nick almost moved to at the end of the episode titled “See Ya”. With Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris. MacArthur Park has popped up on the television series Southland no less than 3 times. Do any of you have a photo editing site that you would recommend?]. One of the coolest restaurants that I have ever set foot in, not to mention one of Southern California’s most filmed-at locales, and NOT ONE of my guidebooks even makes mention of it! And I can honestly say that it was AMAZING – one of the best meals, and dining experiences, that I have ever had! The family in the series was even named “The Binfords” in honor of the property. In New Girl, the Binford Building is where Jess (Zooey Deschanel), Nick (Jake M. Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris) live. You can also check out the IAMNOTASTALKER About Me page here. So when it popped up in the Season 1 episode of New Girl titled “Kryptonite”, I recognized the place and its darling interior immediately. (The homeless guy fist-fighting the air in the first screen capture pictured below is pretty much a true-to-life description of the types of people one will encounter at the park.). And here I thought I was being all sly. Menus is the 8th episode of the third season of New Girl, the 57th episode overall. New, more contagious variants of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1) make dining out at restaurants riskier for workers and diners alike A customer waits for a takeout order to be prepared at a Los Angeles restaurant. In 1997’s Volcano, MacArthur Park was the site where seven public works employees were steamed to death while working on a storm drain. In 1934, it was decided that Wilshire Boulevard, which formerly dead-ended at Westlake’s western border, would be extended and connected to Orange Street in order to run through to downtown Los Angeles. I am not a big breakfast person, but John O’Groats serves up some spectacular grub! The GC and I also live in a loft-style apartment that I ADORE, but it is 750-square feet, has no actual bedrooms and only ONE teeny-tiny closet! The county health department noted in a statement that film crews are regularly tested for the virus and that, unlike at restaurants, people do not mingle for “extended periods of time without their face covering.” Audiences are not allowed at film sites under the county’s guidelines. According to The Prince’s website, the restaurant was also used in episodes of The Layover, Eagleheart, Prime Suspect, and Criminal Minds, but I was, unfortunately, unable to figure out which episodes exactly, and it will also be appearing in the yet-to-be-released movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. In the “Bells” episode of New Girl, MacArthur Park stood in for the fictional “Pershing Park” where Ensembell held their first recital. In 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, The Prince was used extensively as “Bert’s”, the supposed Washington, D.C.-area watering hole where Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), Polly Bailey (Maria Bello) and Bobby Jay Bliss (David Koechner) met on a weekly basis to discuss their strategy for giving alcohol, tobacco and firearms a better public image. Ms. Kuehl, who declined to comment on Saturday, was one of several supervisors who voted last month to let the ban, issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, go into effect. In the pilot episode of The Defenders, The Prince showed up twice as a supposed Las Vegas-area bar where Nick Morelli (James Belushi) and Pete Kaczmarek (Jerry O’Connell) grabbed drinks. The District became a haven for the artistically-inclined in 1976 thanks to the many affordable studio-type spaces available in the countless then-abandoned buildings and warehouses located there. The music video for Gym Class Heroes’ 2005 song “Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America”, which starred Katy Perry, was shot extensively at MacArthur Park. Bombshells started in Dallas as a place designed to honor all branches of … When the area’s piping systems were later changed around 1890, the reservoir was no longer needed and the site was transformed into a public park known as Westlake Park. As it turns out, The Prince was well worth the wait because, as I mentioned a few weeks back in my Must-Stalk List, the eatery is, hands down, one of the coolest places that I have ever visited in all of Los Angeles! MacArthur Park is full of shady characters and we also witnessed a few drug sales in the short ten minutes we were there. Stalk It: Jess’ house, from the Season 1 episode of New Girl titled “Kryptonite”, is located at 2045 Pelham Avenue in Century City. I could do without their public-style bathroom, though, which is an aspect of the show that I still do not entirely understand. This actually turned out to be a rather fun hunt for me because, in an unprecedented turn of events, the Grim Cheaper became a bit fixated with helping in the search. So yes, I have been known to drool copiously while watching New Girl. Thank you, Hulu! The building’s main entrance has also popped up from time to time. But that is another story for another post. Sadly, during the ‘80s, the site, which in 1942 was renamed General Douglas MacArthur Park in honor of the famed WWII general, became a haven of drug, gang and criminal activity. California has declared entertainment industry workers essential, and in Los Angeles County they must follow strict guidelines such as eating in staggered shifts or in an area large enough to stay six feet apart. Author: Amani Abraham The place is truly one of Los Angeles’ finest treasures and hands-down one of the coolest places that I have ever been to! Texas-based restaurant chain Bombshells Restaurant & Bar has been dishing up delicious food since 2013, but in December 2020, it announced its first Franchise Development Agreement calling for three brand new restaurants in the next five years. Directed by Trent O'Donnell. Walking through The Prince’s front doors is like stepping back in time to some fabulous bygone era. “You don’t just talk about the risk of spreading disease. So when the restaurant popped up in the pilot episode of New Girl, and in pretty much every episode thereafter, I immediately recognized it and told the Grim Cheaper that we had to get down there as soon as possible to stalk the place. Despite an attempted revitalization in 2002, the property is still pretty dangerous. Even though we stalked the park during daylight hours, I was still extremely uncomfortable being there. As you can see below, The Prince’s interior is nothing short of spectacular. In the Season 2 episode titled “Butch & Sundance”, the park was where Detective Sammy Bryant (Shawn Hatosy) chased a gang member named Orlando (Eddie Maldonado). The catering site was for a crew filming “Good Girls,” a comedy television show that airs on NBC, according to Philip Sokoloski, a spokesman for FilmLA, which helps Los Angeles manage film permits. On New Girl, The Prince is the bar where Nick (Jake M. Johnson) works and where the gang – Jess (Zooey Deschanel), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Winston (Lamorne Morris), and Cece (Hannah Simone)- regularly hangs out. As you can see, it does not look anything like the New Girl loft. Then, a few days later while we were out and about stalking, anytime we would happen to drive by a park, he would pull over to see if the New Girl bandshell was there. Artists gradually began to take over the many spacious lofts, turning them into art studios and illegal living spaces (the area was not yet zoned as residential). She said she had worked hard to make her outdoor patio compliant with the previous guidelines for outdoor dining before it, too, was banned. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who days ago announced a one-time payment of $800 to food industry workers, urged residents to support restaurants by ordering takeout and delivery but said the restrictions were necessary to reduce the virus’s spread. The Prince was originally opened as the Windsor Inn, an outdoor garden café located in the courtyard of the historic Windsor Apartments building, in 1927. (On a side-note, Mike, from MovieShotsLA, just taught me how to process my photographs using the soon-to-be defunct Picnik editing program, so I have been having a little fun with them today. Brace yourselves, my fellow stalkers, because today’s post is going to be a long one! The GC and I opted to sit at the bar during our stalk and had the pleasure of meeting one of the restaurant’s owners, who was so beyond nice it was almost unbelievable! "Restaurants make New York City the greatest city in the world, ... Mayor announces 'Open Restaurants' outdoor-dining now year-round and permanent in NYC. Over the past week, the county has reported an average of more than 6,000 cases and 34 deaths daily. When the two of us first watched the “Bells” episode a few weeks after Lavonna’s challenge, he thought the park and its unique bandshell looked familiar, but he could not place where he had seen them. I had never before visited – or even heard of – the “Arts District” (or “Artists District” as it is sometimes referred to) until this past Saturday, but according to the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District website, the area is the site of an average of 900 movie shoots per year! Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Yay! After it arrived, she even taught us how to eat it Korean-style, with chopsticks(! Because I had not been there in years, though, and had no photographs of it, I added John O’Groats to my ever-growing To-Stalk list and dragged the Grim Cheaper right on out there this past Sunday morning for breakfast. The restaurant is open for takeout and outdoor dining. Stalk It: John O’Groats restaurant, from the “Kryptonite” episode of New Girl, is located at 10516 West Pico Boulevard in the Rancho Park neighborhood of West Los Angeles. You can visit the eatery’s official website here. I am pleased the Mayor has chosen to make the program permanent and I look forward to working with the administration on legislation to codify it into law.” Love it, love it, love it! pic.twitter.com/Oo6LMdmE1p. 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