By Friday, I was itching to get out of work and stopped home quickly afterward, then headed down to Anthology, for a Yelp Elite party. If you're not familiar with Yelp, it's time to make yourself familiar. It's a community site where anyone can register and write reviews of restaurants, boutiques, bars, nightclubs, parks...pretty much everything. Since I already blog my opinions about everything here, I am not much of a Yelper, but I do use the site regularly...when I'm asked to recommend a restaurant for out of town clients, for example, or when I need to book reservations for my bosses when they travel to other cities. "Find the best sushi in New York," they'll say, and in a few Yelp minutes, they have a reservation based on pretty solid recommendations. The site has been around for a while now, but only in San Diego a little over a year. Ruggy is working there now and was kind enough to invite me despite my lack of "Elite" status, which is given to prolific Yelpers.
Anthology is absolutely stunning as a venue, and for lovers of Jazz, it seems the perfect venue. They serve dinner, or you can just buy tickets to a show without being obligated to buy food. The ground floor has a stage and several tables for reserved seating and dining, along with a full horseshoe bar. The second floor mezzanine has seating along a railing for a view of the stage, and the third floor, where the Yelp party was being held, there's more seating along the railing, a lounge with couches, a bar, and an outdoor patio with some more couches and seating. It was such a lovely night, I found a couple friends and we chilled on the patio for most of the party.
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The night was sponsored by Veev, which is an Acai based vodka and is quite delicious. It's really sweet, however, so a lot of people chose to drink it in Lemondrops or with cranberry juice, but I opted for "heavy Veev, splash of tonic". I'll call it a sneaker drink, because you drink it like it's a light refreshing bevvie, then BAM, you realize this ain't no light liquor.
The party ended at 8, but I was called and told I didn't have to sell merch at the Casbah after all because the Raveonettes merch hadn't arrived, so I stayed a little longer chatting on the patio. I met a guy who is a contractor working on projects that I'd worked on through my architecture firm, so it was one of those moments that really makes you realize San Diego is such a small town. For me, that's just the way I like it. He also said he worked on the Hard Rock Hotel and that the music hall is just an empty shell at the moment- there was some disagreement between contractors, architects, and property owner, supposedly, which would explain why the shows are held in conference room spaces for the time being.
Anyway, it was a really sweet way to start off a night and I hope that there are more Anthology events that pique my interest...I'm not much of a jazz person, but perhaps some more acoustic shows might draw me there in the future. And if you are a jazz person, or are the kind of person who has to take out of town relatives to a nice place when they come to town, this would be a great place to do it.
Next post...the Raveonettes...pictures by me, review by Greg.
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Glad you had a good time! It was cool seeing you out!
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