Eat.shop.la.

Rating:
Summary: took a trip just because of this book
Review: Fun, funky book, with a few misspellings and grammatical errors (shame on her editor!) Those are easy to excuse because the shops are just like what I look for in a cool store. Fun photos and I liked the tone of first person prose a lot.

My husband and I just took our 2 year old down to LA from Northern CA for a quick weekend to check out the stores and met some nice people. Our trip was inspired solely by the appeal of the book. We also wanted to check out cool stores for inspiration for our own shop we want to open.

Some shops got in, apparently, because they know the author. But, that's ok, the shops we went to were all worth visiting. My husband loved the clothes in Apartment #9, loved the carved wood in Pearce and dog Fritz and friendly partner of Pearce (read about that shop/gallery in other places) Obsolete was awesome and Lost in Found in Hollywood had some luscious objects as well as clothes for the kid and us adults, (though the staff was not so friendly as the staff in stores in Santa Monica and Venice with one clerk giving tech support over the phone to a friend for a half hour while we were the only people in the store!)

Kaie, it's nice to see someone proud of liking to shop.

We didn't get to check out the restaurants, though. Maybe when our toddler is a little older!