Hier soir: Guess & Theophilus London celebrate GQ’s November Music Issue

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - November 7th, 2011   Filed under: Events & Parties, FASHION, Music, Private Concerts
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Last Thursday, November 3rd, GQ + Guess celebrated the launch of GQ’s November Music issue with a special performance by Theophilus London at The Sayers club (shouts out to Jason S and Alexi Y!! xo LB & CR). This collaboration fits perfectly because — beyond TL being THE new big indie-hip hop artist, he is also a major fashionista (died for his collectors eddition Back To The Future Nike Air Mag kicks) — a good combo of music (GQ) and fashion (Guess). Click to Continue Reading

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Hier Soir … Scott Caan x Pennyroyal Studio x Kanon Vodka host THERAsurf event at Confederacy in Los Feliz

by: Lauren Brokaw - September 2nd, 2011   Filed under: DJs, Friends of the Truffle, Hier soir ..., L.A. Natives, Notes from Last Night
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We came, we shopped, we drank their (delish organic cocktails by Kanon*) vodka … lead by our host, friend of the Truffle, and current Entourage cast member Mr. Scott Caan (who I also must mention was a trending topic twice yesterday). Funny enough a new Twitter wonder – mostly thanks to Aziz Ansari – erupted called #CaanTV which basically goes something like this: Click to Continue Reading

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Weekly Juice – JC Penney x Charlotte Ronson party, LACMA hosts the opening of Restoration Hardware new store, Jeff Best and JT Torregiani new club in the works, Chateau Marmont mini-series from HBO

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - June 21st, 2011   Filed under: Weekly Juice
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We’ve noticed a new trend in Hollywood this week … LA’s biggest museums are hosting back to back parties this week for retail store openings. Restoration Hardware teams with LACMA for their new store opening on Beverly Blvd. … Meanwhile on the other side of town MOCA is helping Guess re-open their new flagship store on 3rd Street Promendade, as part of their ‘Art in the Street’ exhibit. The Bumbys are expected to preform their usual honesty’s-the-best-policy routine …

Pilot news: Aaron Sorkin and John Krasinski team up with HBO for a Chateau Marmont miniseries based on the book, Life At the Marmont by the former co-owner of the establishment,  Raymond R. Sarlot and Fred Basten.

Bottle service: How hard is it to get a table around Hollywood these days? Well bottle prices or at least minimuns are on the rise. We at the Truffle don’t do bottle service but we sometimes hear from others what it takes to be granted access if you don’t know someone (who likes you). The bottom line is … you must add to the clubs bottom line. You can do that in a number of ways – our personal favorite is to make their club fun by dressing well and having a good time. That way it’s fun for others, you make the club look good, and the promoters & owners invite you back (yes, my friends, there is more to having an active social life than being hot). For others who have yet to master that art, we hear $450 is a new acceptable rate to charge for a single bottle at some places in Hollywood but that you can still find a $250 bottle rate at places outside that area like The Wilshire hotel in Westwood. If you want a table and you want to sit down at places like Beacher’s Madhouse, if you are a group of men … a 4 bottle minimum can be standard.

New Clubs: Happy Birthday to long time friend of the Truffle Jason Scoppa who had his birthday at newly opened “The Sayers Club,” which he opened in collaboration with Sam Nazarian of SBE last week. He is teaming up again with Alexi Yulish to handle Tuesdays, Friday and Saturdays – the same two who made Green Door and Bardot cool.

New Clubs: We hear Jeffrey Best (of Best Events) and JT Torregiani (formerly of Dolce Group) have a new club in Hollywood cooking for an August opening … more to come on that.

New Clubs: Redbury Hotel will open it’s upstairs bar this week (Thursday). Alexi Yulish, Jason Soppa and Walter Macredy (who was the former host at Chateau Marmont and then Palihouse) are teaming up on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Parties: JC Penney x Charlotte Ronson event tonight for their collaboration line I Heart Ronson

Parties: MOCA will also be lending its support to OMEGA this week at the Beverly Center for a soiree

Food News: Culina Four Seasons kicked off their monthly cooking class last weekend, and the Truffle was there to partake – these will continue on the 2nd Saturday of each month from now on [Price $85].

Food News: Mr. C restaurant is now open with a bright exciting interior and a packed house every night.

Food News: La Foccaceria Tra di Noi now open in the old Prego space in Beverly Hills.

Food News: Adolfo Suaya will open Osaka next month with a team from Peru, his biggest resto yet and 4 years in the making.

Food News: Tebarna opens in Beverly Hills this month on June 27th in the former Luau space.

Food News: Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine’s THE TASTE (formerly known as Taste of Beverly Hills) is coming again for the second year this Labor Day weekend [Sept 2-5, 2011, Tickets available now‏].

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Weekly Juice: Bardot Turns 1, Wonderland Opens in Hollywood, News from Guy’s Bar

by: Caroline - October 2nd, 2009   Filed under: Invites, LA Scene, Weekly Juice
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Bardot celebrates one year anniversary with Perry Farrell Performaing “Jane Says” to intimate group. Congratulations to our friends at Bardot – Alexi Yulish, Stephanie Fessler and Jason Scoppa.

Tommy Alastra hosted the first party for Alice in Wonderland-themed club “Wonderland” on Wednesday – the new spot where Bolthouse’s Concorde and Shareen’s Shag use to be! Shereen Arazm, Mike Malin and Lonnie Moore will re-open Friday for a soft launch, and Saturday, and the official launch will come in a couple weeks. Brandon Davis, Simox Rex, McLovin’, LA Native Tyson Park, Saran Barnun, Paradiso Girl Shar Mae Amor, Warren Gomez and DJ Politik aka Paul Purman were in attendance.

Darren Dzienciol tells me old Guy’s will remain a pop up club venture while they will open “Le Bar Boutique” soon at the old Blowfish location on Sunset Blvd.
East lounge + restaurant opens next week at 6611 Hollywood Blvd. David Judaken’s Syndicate Hospitality Group has opened this new restaurant with interiors by Dodd Mitchell, the renowned visionary behind the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Thompson Hotel Beverly Hills, Teddy’s, and more.

 

 

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Private Concerts: Perry Farrell performs “Jane Says” at Bardot’s One Year Anniversary party

by: Caroline - October 2nd, 2009   Filed under: Bars & Clubs, Caroline Roman blog, LA Scene, Los Angeles Social Diary, New in L.A., Previews | Sneak Peeks | Soft Openings, Private Concerts
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The relationships Jason Scoppa and Alexi Yulish have fostered with Hollywood club-goers and famous musicians has changed nightlife in Hollywood. Bardot promoter Jason Scoppa pitched Bardot owner John Lyons the concept to turn the VIP club atop Avalon nightclub in Hollywood into the first ever no-cover live music venue for celebrities to play intimate sets to hand-picked crowds of friends, peers and other Hollywood insiders.While Jason gets the celebrity bands and solo acts, Alexi works on the crowd – and this crowd is just about the best anyone can get – after all, I was there. My friends at Bardot know how to throw a party and always make me and all their friends and guest feel so welcome. It is truly like having a family when you venture out into the night – One big happy Hollywood family. Jason made that official this summer when he married his girlfriend, Stephanie Fessler, who he met while working together at Green Door and who left with him when the John Lyons and Steve Adelman opened up Bardot a year ago. Click to Continue Reading

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Bardot gang strikes a deal with the Thompson to host pool parties this summer

by: Caroline - June 27th, 2009   Filed under: Events & Parties, LA Scene
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Jason Scoppa & Taylor Russel

The Bardot gang has teamed up with The Thompson hotel in Beverly Hills to have pool parties every Sunday this summer. Tomorrow (Sunday, June 28) is the first official day but it’s been going on all  month in secret, just to test the pot …

I went to see my Bardot friends at The Thompson two Sundays ago. Cabanas, tents and king size lounge beds dot the pool and a two-tiered roof deck with telescopes allow guests to spy on banks and talent agencies below. I happened to see a huge smoke fire on Doheny and Sunset that day – no doubt connected to over-excited Lakers fans after the win of the final game. Click to Continue Reading

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Green Door team moves to Bardot

by: Caroline - August 9th, 2008   Filed under: Events & Parties, LA Scene
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Alexi Yulish, Jason Scoppa and Stephanie Fessler

Alexi Yulish and Jason Scoppa are taking their party to Bardot. The two most gracious men in Hollywood are moving from Green Door and their stylish Eurpoean crowd is going with them. Bardot features cabaret acts, musicians and costume parties all week long.


Inside Bardot …
Alexi and I on my birthday last year during the last days of Green Door
Bardot promoter Jason Scoppa
Bardot promoter Alexi Yulish
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Slumber parties & After-hours at Sundance 2008

by: Caroline - January 21st, 2008   Filed under: Caroline Roman blog
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Eileen Colavita on the last day of Sundance at the L.A. Times/T-Mobile art breakfast

Today, I got on a plane for the first time since I visited my boyfriend in Vancouver 4 years ago. OK – there was that trip to Hawaii, but I don’t count it because I did not successfully re-board the plane to come home (panic attack). The 8am Southwest flight to Utah was jam packed with every event marketer, studio exec and filmmaker know to popular LA society. Among them: Kari Feinstein, Mike McGuniess (Feinstein/McGuiness PR), Jean Song (Fox Studios), Eileen Colavita (Spin Shoppe PR) and Stephanie Senter (People’s Revolution, where Whitney and Lauren intern on The Hills).

Kari Feinstein and Mike McGuiness at the Kari Feinstein Sundance Style Lounge on Day 1, January 18, 2008 in Park City, Utah. 2008
I went to assist Eileen in her 5-day quest for press for the Hard Rock hotels series of events at their ‘pop-up’ club in a converted gallery on Main Street. I was delighted (and I never use that word) to run into my new friend Alexi Yulish just outside. He was with his partner Jason Scoppa, Tom Colley, and a few promoters they work with; Mike Bellasario , Tom Colley and Chris Paul. They are all in town throwing the Green Door after hours from 12am on each night of the festival in a giant chalet up on a hill.

Jason Scoppa, Alexi Yulish, Tom Colley, Michael Bellisario, Azzuro Mallin and Chris Paul
Within the 30,000 sq ft Green Door mansion – they had a VIP “Dom Perignon Room” filled with champagne – for celebrities and those too blasee to wait at a crowded bar. You had to be specially invited in and then were given a secret password for the rest of the night. When I saw them on Main Street – I immediately invited them in to the Hard Rock party for hot chocolate and to design their own Pumas – courtesy of one of our sponsors …
During the infamous blackout of the festival – everyone was frozen at their respective party, screening, hotel, etc. That was nothing compare to getting snowed in a few days later up at the Butter House after hours (aka 5WPR Sundance Escape Mansion, with Butter nightclub in New York City) – the East Coast’s answer to the Green Door’s part dinner/part club/all celebrity success. If I must be snowed in somewhere, at least it’s with my childhood friend David Spencer, who works with the Butter crew in New York and all the other East Coast counterparts to my world in L.A. dancing on tables in the living room lodge. Butter’s daily breakfast was a hit among all festival-goers the whole week (read: eggs & champagne at 4am). You could either stay late the night before or arrive early but either don’t forget your pre-given pass – no exceptions – says the puffer-coat-wearing list man at the top of the drive.

One of our interns stumbled into an outdoor fire pit the same night up at the Green Door house and caught herself on fire – luckily she was saved by a lurking paramedic (another Sundance Miracle!) but had to remain in place with the synged butt of her dress missing, as the cabs avoided peril in the snow storms despite our generous offerings for rescue! No worries – instead we had the most gi-norumous sleep over at the Green Door house to ever go down in Hollywood history (unless you count Heffner’s ).

Or so I hear – I was lucky enough to catch a ride with friends R.J. Williams (YoungHollywood.com), Matt Donnelly (New York Post), and Carly Steel (actress, TV host) who took me with them back to the elaborate Grande Lodge in Empire Pass, Deer Valley with 12 ft high ceilings, bunk beds carved into oak walls of wood and cozy fireplaces at the eerie yet pricey accommodations, straight out of “The Shinning“complete with property care-taker hanging from a very thin thread.
R.J., a stylish man and former child start turned CEO of media conglomerate YoungHollywood.com, is elegant enough to travel with chef who made 5am grilled cheese sandwhiches upon our return as we inflated air mattresses, watched the sunrise and reflected on our so-not-LA evening of getting snowed in at a great party … how very Dolomite/Coucheval of us!


R.J. Williams, CEO Young Hollywood


Matt Donnelly, New York Post, Carly Steel, E! News


Moi!
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