Food: Electric Lotus

Wow. So I don’t think I could start a blog today without mentioning Sundays “The Kennedy Center Honors” awards. This year’s honorees were composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, conductor Zubin Mehta, singer/songwriters Dolly Parton and William “Smokey” Robinson, and film director Steven Spielberg. The gala will be broadcast on CBS on Dec. 26.

Itzhak Perlman was there who gave the award to Mehta… Tom Hanks for Steven… I mean shit… they were all invited to the White House before for a private reception. I’ve met Perlman before, I adore that man. Okay, I’ll shut up. The link to the story is above.

Also… I’m going to start a new series: Late Night Eats

Photo by santa barbarian

Friday night a friend and I went to the John Waters show at UCLA… it was great. Jonathan Richman was crazy Jonathan Richman. I don’t think there could be a better opening act for John Waters than Jonathan.

Afterwards we grabbed a late night bite at the Electric Lotus, a Indian place. While we both weren’t really in the mood for Indian food, it was close and I couldn’t think of anywhere else in the area that I wanted to try that was open late. But it was good.

We both got a dish and shared. He got the chicken tikka masala and I got chicken vindaloo. It was good. The place was just about empty except for the bar at about midnight. We also had a few Indian beers. I’m not a big beer drinker but they were also good. The service was great… our waitress was very nice and let us stay even a little past closing as we continued to talk.

I love this area of Los Feliz. There are tons of great cafes and coffee shops all along Vermont. The Electric Lotus is at Vermont and Franklin. The front entrance is a little hard to see, but it’s on Vermont. It’s the last door on the right walking north before you get the the Seven Eleven. We walked past it once. Parking is behind it for like $4.00 or there’s always tons of street parking in the surrounding neighborhoods that are not permit parking. But double check that.

Overall good. Good atmosphere good food good prices. And on weekends there’s a DJ that plays downtempo beats. Maybe it’s a little more lively on a Saturday night.

Electric Lotus
4656 Franklin Ave.
Los Angeles, 90027
(323) 953-0040