Shark Tank put now-thriving food-truck biz Cousins Maine Lobster on the map so successfully that the brand launched an actually-on-the-map location in West Hollywood. “Opening our first brick-and-mortar was very important to us,” says co-founder Sabin Lomac. “We wanted to create a Maine lobster-shack feel and have the most welcoming Maine vibe. Serving our delicacies in a place like this was our vision.”
8593 Santa Monica Boulevard; cousinsmainelobster.com
Inside Cousins Maine Lobster
Getting thoroughly Kundalini-ed at the new mega-size yoga studio Wanderlust Hollywood works up more than a spiritual appetite, so celebrity chef Seamus Mullen aims to nourish body and soul with his in-house café. “Food and wellness are really important to everything I do,” says Mullen, who is eager “to bring those two things together in a single space and create a menu for somebody who values an active lifestyle.”
1357 Highland Avenue; wanderlusthollywood.com
Inside Hatchet Hall
Hatchet Hall, the latest addition to Culver City’s culinary scene, brings a sense of rustic retreat both in entrées and environs. “We have lots of friends who are fishermen or foragers,” says chef Brian Dunsmoor. “They’ll drop off random stuff and we write the menu every morning accordingly.” The woodsy, taxidermy-adorned “old-man bar,” says general manager Jonathan Strader, recalls “a place that you’d go and hide from your family and get drunk.”
12517 West Washington Boulevard; hatchethallla.com
