724 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90038
ph: (323) 962-6369
Lou?
Lou is a cozy Hollywood wine bar. Most nights you'll espy Lou-the-person behind the counter — he's the fellow yammering away about biodynamic wine and ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines.
Obsessions?
Yep! We're obsessed with natural winegrowing, indigenous grape varieties, native yeasts, dry farming, and the characterful wines produced by old vines.
Where?
724 Vine Street, one block north of Melrose on the east side of the street. We have a small parking lot; when it's full, there's unmetered parking on Vine after 6 PM.
When?
Monday - Saturday
6 PM - 12 AM
Reservations?
We welcome reservations for groups of six or more, Monday - Thursday.
No reservations on Friday and Saturday.
Telephone?
(323) 962-6369
Thirsty?
Lou pours thirty wines by the glass from an ever-changing list. We also serve
interesting beers and organic French hard cider.
Prices range from 8 to 18 dollars, half that for 2 ounce tastes.
Lou pours real, un-spoofilated wine from an ever-changing list that is unabashedly Eurocentric.
We favor winegrowers such as Clos Roche Blanche, Thierry Puzelat, and François Chidaine (Loire); Tissot (Jura); Walter Massa (Piemonte) and Clara Marcelli (Marche); Olivier Pithon, Jean Gardies, Ferrer-Ribière, and Gerard Gauby (Roussillon); Roland Velich and Franz Heiss (Burgenland); Ijalba (Rioja) and Ventura (Ribeira Sacra); from our own backyard, Steve Beckman's Purisma Mountain wines.
Monday night suppers?
On Monday nights Lou offers a seasonal prix fixe wine pairing supper: three courses of seasonal farmers market goodness and five matching wines for $55. Supper is served from 6 PM to 11 PM and no reservations are required.
Hungry?
Our compact, seasonal menu changes throughout the week, depending on what looks delicious at the farmers market. All produce is grown locally, the meat we serve is raised without antibiotics or hormones, and the fish we serve is wild, never farmed.
Our products?
Our chef, DJ Olsen, crafts house-made bacon, country pâté, and rilettes from Niman Ranch pork. In addition, we proudly offer Armandino Batali's salumi from Seattle.
Cheese is a natural accompaniment to wine, and our cheese plank features a changing selection of domestic artisanal and farmstead cheeses such as Soyoung Scanlan's Andante cheeses (Petaluma), Sally Jackson Goat (Washington state), Twig Farm goat cheese (Vermont), Hook's 10 year cheddar (Wisconsin), and Andante Trio (Petaluma). Oh, and if you're curious about those big, buttery green olives we serve, they're Castelvetrano olives from Siciliy.
724 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90038
ph: (323) 962-6369
