Tag: Pasadena restaurants

February 4, 2013

My Favorite Pasadena Places – Part II

My Guide to L.A.

As promised, today’s blog is a continuation of my top ten favorite places in Pasadena. If you missed the first installment, you can check it out here. And now, on with the post! (Big THANK YOU to Mike, from MovieShotsLA, for taking the above photograph of Pasadena City Hall. I swear, that guy takes THE…

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Lindsay
February 1, 2013

My Favorite Pasadena Places – Part I

My Guide to L.A.

While the Grim Cheaper and I are absolutely loving our new apartment and desert locale, I am, of course, feeling quite nostalgic about Pasadena, the fabulous city that I called home for over thirteen years. There are so many things that I am going to miss about the place – even my former building’s Ugly…

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August 8, 2011

Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Pasadena – One of Joel McHale’s Favorite Hangouts

This and That

As I have mentioned quite a few times before on my blog, this stalker absolutely loves herself some Joel McHale. So when I saw that the cutie The Soup host/Community star had been interviewed about some of his favorite SoCal haunts in the August 2011 “The Best of LA” issue of Los Angeles Magazine, I…

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January 18, 2011

72 North – The Real Life Emerald City Bar from “Grey’s Anatomy”

TV Locations

While Mike, from MovieShotsLA, and I were watching True Blood being filmed in Pasadena last Wednesday night, we got to talking with the owner of The Old Towne Pub about all of the filming that has taken place in the area over the years. The owner was extremely knowledgeable and clued us in to a…

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January 17, 2011

Watching the Filming of “True Blood”

TV Locations

Last Wednesday evening I got a text from the owner of POP Champagne & Dessert Bar – my very favorite restaurant and the spot where the Grim Cheaper and I held the rehearsal dinner for our wedding last August – alerting me to the fact that the hit HBO television series True Blood would be…

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December 13, 2010

Our Movie Locations-Themed Scavenger Hunt

Movie Locations, My Movie-Themed Wedding

My good friend/party planner extraordinaire Natalie Drees has become famous in our circle over the past few years for creating absolutely amazing customized scavenger hunts. She plans one for pretty much every event she hosts and not only are they insanely fun, but they also provide a fabulous way for people to get to know…

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December 10, 2010

Our Rehearsal Dinner at POP Champagne & Dessert Bar

My Movie-Themed Wedding, This and That

As I’ve mentioned many times before on this blog, POP Champagne & Dessert Bar in Old Town Pasadena is my very favorite restaurant and, even though I wasn’t even engaged at the time, when I first walked through its front doors over a year and a half ago, I immediately knew it was the place…

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November 12, 2010

Lucky Baldwin’s British Pub and Cafe from “The Big Bang Theory”

This and That

In the recently-aired Season 4 episode of fave show The Big Bang Theory titled “The Irish Pub Formulation”, Sheldon Cooper (aka Jim Parsons) refers to an Old Town Pasadena-area restaurant named Lucky Baldwin’s Pub. Ironically enough, just a few days prior to watching that episode, fellow stalker John from Northern California had mentioned that very…

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Lindsay
November 8, 2010

Villa Sorriso – The Restaurant Where Michael Jackson’s “Celebration of Life” Reception Was Held

Michael Jackson Locations

One location that I stalked quite a while back, but, for whatever reason, have yet to blog about is Villa Sorriso Ristorante – the Italian eatery where the Jackson family hosted the September 3, 2009 “Celebration of Life” reception for pop star Michael Jackson following his burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. …

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January 4, 2010

Vertical Wine Bistro

This and That

Even though I am not usually a going-out-on-New-Year’s-Eve type of girl, this year I wanted nothing more than to ring in 2010 with a glass of champagne at my very favorite restaurant, POP Champagne Bar in Pasadena. But being that I am not now, nor never have been, a night person – I can’t tell…

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