Crackdown at LA Nightclubs?
1:38 Wednesday, May 30, 2007
These days, there's no hiding the illicit behavior, thanks to the aggressive tactics of Hollywood's ever-expanding paparazzi corps, who document celebrities through every nightclub-hopping step. That's what happened over the weekend to actress Lindsay Lohan. The 20-year-old was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing her Mercedes convertible in Beverly Hills early Saturday, culminating a night of partying on the Sunset Strip.Former hotspot Mood is currently being investigated by the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board, who are looking to close the bar down for 15-days and Les Deux, one of the newcomers on the club scene has issued a public statement stating that they are in fact a restaurant, not a club, and that Lohan was not drinking at their club. But the astute writers over at Eater LA have taken umbrage with club owner Lonnie Moore's restaurant claim:
We'd never particularly thought of Les Deux as a place for eating, even though we had heard something once about decadent cupcakes, which do not a restaurant make. So we downloaded the Les Deux menu, a four-page document consisting of three pages of wine, hard alcohol and specialty cocktails, and one page consisting exclusively of two salads and nine liquor-absorbing pastas--just enough to keep the fuzz from enforcing a 21-and-up policy. You know, a real family dining establishment.Not only does it look like law enforcement should crack down on underage celebrities and their bar hopping but also the definition of "restaurant" because when compared with a menu like that, the bar that I frequent that supplies me with a bottomless basket of peanuts and suggests that I throw the discarded shells on the floor should apply for a restaurant designation. Update: I Just realized they serve nine pasta dishes! Who the f*ck eats pasta in Los Angeles? I guarantee 98% of Les Deux's clientele hasn't had a carbohydrate (unless its from fruits, vegetables, and alcohol) in years. That just makes their menu even more of a joke. Picture by Rodrigo Marques
Lonnie and Mike "Boogie" Malin are liars and thieves.
They stole the "Diary of a Geisha" picture and used it as their own for the rstaurant.
Mike Boogie is an ExCon for breaking and entering to a movie lot for stealing images. His real name is Mike Carri.
I'm not sure about California Law but I hold an ABC card in Tennessee.......all bars must serve food and it is supposed to equal or be more than the revenue from the liquor..it's not uncommon for them to doctor the income to make it look like this is true........and that because of that they are considered bar and grills or restaurants.......good luck with this fight because that food thing is a glitch in the system not the bars fault at all.........also try Texas liquor laws if you want a laugh every state is different and individual counties can have different laws about who can be in the establishment proving the minor purchased the alcohol or even that the bar knew they were consuming it is near impossible, plus the people you're asking to police this thing the servers - - they make about 2.15 an hour where do you think their loyalty lies with the bar that pays them $20 a night or the customer who may in Lindsey's case be tipping them hundreds.....
mysmichelle, i too thought all bars were required by law to offer some kind of food, i think it is an old holdover to prevent people from getting too drunk, like a bar having coffee.
i think the amount of food is definitely a discrepancy that is being exploited.
Excuse me, but I thought that everyone had to present ID in order to be served a drink no matter what type of establishment you are in. I know I do in Chicago and I am by no means an ingenue'.
Seems to me that the "clubs" the celebutantes frequent are just as guilty as the under-age drinkers, more so.
But the ultimate responsibility rests with the parents. I could spend ten days listing each celebutantes' parents weaknesses and bad parenting skills, but why bother. If they didn't care to raise responsible, law-abiding citizens that's on them. I am justing asking that they keep the keys and let the drunken sots take a limo, they are "stars", can't they afford it?
In Texas, you can be arrested for "public drunkenness" while you're sitting at the bar!
Undercover cops in Texas sting bars all the time when they want to shut down certain ones. :(
Les Deux is an infamous after hours club. There is a back room wgich has pool tables,poker tables,stripper poles and full bar.........
Clubs have always let in underage celebrities. Underage celebrities spend shitloads of money, AND get other celebrities to come in a spend shitloads of money. Not to mention it attracts a huge number of people to come to their clubs and spend money. It is all about money.
Nevertheless these clubs can still get their liquor license revoked if they let underage children drink. It is the law and no one should be above it. If Lindsay Lohan had killed herself that night, guess who would have been at fault? The club that she left out of that night.
Since when does one lettuce leaf constitute dinner? The cokehead prolly didn't have much of an appetitie anyway. lol
Let me know if I'm wrong, but don't the cops have to bee checking the clubs and actually catch someone underage drinking? If they don't witness it, how the hell would it stand up in court?
I think they call it "constructive proof" they have the chain of events linked. The videos the cops rec'd helped heaps.