My L.A. to Z: Stephen Moyer
Interviewed by Julia St. Pierre
The British actor who plays southern vampire Bill Compton on HBO’s True Blood admits his L.A. loves are mostly food-based or down on the coast. Catch him on the big screen in The Double.
Getty Villa
I love those grounds, they’re beautiful. I also love the Getty Center, it’s a great place to watch the sunset.
Santa Monica Beach
I love to hire a bike and go down to Santa Monica pier and cycle up the boardwalk all the way to the Marina del Rey peninsula and back again. Down by the pier there are ten steel rings hanging from a giant frame in front of the trapeze bars. Basically, it’s giant monkey bars for grownups. I go down there and I absolutely love it. The truth is, it’s kind of the reason that I moved to the Westside. If you haven’t seen the crazies doing the drum circle in Venice, it’s a thing to behold.
The Tasting Kitchen
I love Gjelina, obviously, on Abbot Kinney, everyone loves that, but my favorite is the Tasting Kitchen. I think the Tasting Kitchen is just doing the most incredible stuff and I miss it when I’m not in town. They do a meat plate on Sundays for brunch and they do this crazy egg plate. You can have your eggs like four different ways. They’re unbelievable. The meat plate is steak, bacon and sausages, all on one plate. No, I’m not a vegetarian, funnily that.
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