Crackdown at LA Nightclubs?
1:38 Wednesday, May 30, 2007
There was a great article in the LA Times today about the increase in underage stars hitting Los Angeles bars and nightclubs, well not so much their increase, young Hollywood a la Drew Barrymore have long been taking in the after dark scene but now the ever present paparazzi are there to document it and this weekends DUI crash involving 20-year-old Lindsay Lohan after a night out on the town is finally drawing the attention necessary to fight the problem.
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
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