805 Living Dining Blog: Angie Eats
Welcome to the 805 Living Dining Blog where our Dining Editor, Angela Pettera, keeps you up to date on restaurant happenings in the 805. To send her your tips and comments, email angela@805living.com. Happy eating!
Events listed on the blog are subject to change. Please contact the restaurants to confirm availability and details.
Bogie’s at Westlake Village Inn
Musical Dining Continued:
This outdoor, cabana-strewn bar has something happening almost every night of the week. You’ll find dance lessons, karaoke, and club nights throughout the week. On Friday nights, live bands like Jam Cats, Night Train, and Full Sail play dance music from 9:30 p.m. to closing (sometime after midnight). The cover charge is only $5 if you arrive between 7:30 and 9 p.m., after 9 p.m. it’s $10. The menu offers small bites like sliders and tuna tartar.
Bogie’s Nightclub & Lounge, at Westlake Village Inn, 32001 Agoura Road, Westlake Village, 818-889-2394
Duke’s Malibu
Musical Dining Continued:
This Hawaiian-themed restaurant has, naturally, hula dancers and Hawaiian drummers in the outdoor Barefoot Bar on Friday nights. From 6-8 p.m. you can order off the bar menu (with dishes like Island fish & chips and a Mahi Mahi burger) and sip on a Beach Boy Daquiri while watching adorable hula girls sashay in the breezes blowing off of the Pacific Ocean just below. Unfortunately, you can’t reserve a seat in the bar so you’ll have to take your chances on snagging a table.
Duke’s Malibu, 21150 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, 310-317-0777
MOZ Buddha Lounge
Musical Dining Continued:
Bands set up in the bar area of this classy eatery with a fusion menu. But you can hear the music from the main dining room as well as the back patio. On Thursday nights the entertainment begins at 8 p.m. so you can dine and listen at the same time. On Friday and Saturday nights the music doesn’t start until around 10 p.m. so you might just want drinks or dessert. The calendar on the MOZ website lists the band schedule packed with acts like Boogie Wonderland, Mini Driver, and the Copycats.
MOZ Buddha Lounge, 30105 W. Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, 818-735-0091
Enoteca Toscana
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Vocalist and guitar master Craig Saxon will be performing in this intimate dining space with a wide range of small plates and wines by the glass. You can catch him every Saturday night from 7-10 p.m. playing popular songs from the 1960’s to today.
Enoteca Toscana Wine Bistro, 2088 E. Ventura Blvd., Camarillo, 805-445-1433
www.enotecatoscanawinebistro.com
J’s Tapas
Musical Dining Continued:
At J’s Tapas you can sit at the long bar and order a fruit-infused or herb-spiked martini or plop down onto one of the cushy chairs with a mojito or Irish coffee or one of many wines by the glass. A menu of delicious hot and cold Mediterranean tapas will keep your hunger at bay while local Ventura musicians play jazz on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from around 8-11 p.m.
J’s Tapas & Martini Bar, 204 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-648-4853
http://www.jonathansatpeiranos.com/jstapas.asp
The Sidecar
Musical Dining Continued:
The Sidecar in Ventura is set in an early 20th-century train car, so live jazz is a natural match for this place. Every Tuesday night you can hear jazz musicians play while chef Tim Kilcoyne riffs on the grilled cheese sandwich. The regular menu isn’t available for dinner, just fantastic versions of this comforting sammy. The music plays from 6-9:30 p.m.
On Friday and Saturday nights, the Bobby Watley Trio plays from 6-9 p.m.
And now on Sundays you can hear a different jazz band every week while you work your way through eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles. The bands play from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Sidecar Restaurant, 3029 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-653-7433
Musical Dining - Blog Feature
In the October issue of 805 Living Magazine, I wrote a feature about restaurants where music is a theme (or at least where you can see some live musical acts). In the process of researching that article, I came across a number of good restaurants offering live musical performances. I want to share those places with you. So I’ll be listing one restaurant almost every day throughout the month of October on the blog here and talking about what kind of music they offer.
In the print article, I mentioned:
Charline’s Urban Tapas & Wine Bar (546 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-652-2255, www.charlines.com) with its smooth jazz and Southern small plates. Owner Kevin Williams brings in bands from Santa Barbara and L.A. like Bobby Watley & The Organ Trio or Satellite Orchestra. He also created the menu of interesting bites like fried mac & cheese balls, Gouda grits, catfish sliders, and buttermilk pie. “I go against the grain,” he said of his self-described “new-age jazz juke joint” named for his grandmother. The lights are low, the booths are luxe, and the martinis can be spicy. The blues, jazz, soul, and R&B artists play Wednesday through Sunday nights beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Melomaniacs will love the upstairs Entertainment Loft of Zoey’s Cafe (451 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-652-1137, www.zoeyscafe.com) for its nice acoustics and intimate atmosphere. An abbreviated menu of salads, pizzas, and dessert is available along with strong coffee drinks, beer, wine and cocktails. There’s a cover charge that varies with the artists playing. Mostly it falls between $5 and $20. Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. you can catch emerging singer/songwriters—a real treat. For a taste of the talent, visit www.syd-music.com to see Syd in action or www.myspace.com/brandonharriswalker for a snippet of Brandon Walker’s tunes. Thursday through Saturday nights catch more acoustic acts playing pop, jazz, rock and folk tunes, often of their own making. See Zoey’s special event web calendar to see who’s playing and to link to the artists’ web pages.
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