Day 80: La Velvet Margarita Cantina

I arrived in Los Angeles with the Strategic Taco Undertakings Director on Saturday evening with just enough time to grab about 5 drinks at the hotel bar before heading across Hollywood to La Velvet Margarita Cantina for dinner with my sisters and the one and only Dash Nash. Camel had chosen this trendy spot for it's L.A. atmosphere as well as it's tasty taco offerings. After checking in with the pony-tailed matre-d, we headed to the bar to wait for our table. This place was covered in crazy blue and pink lighting, and above the bar was a strange collection of puppets encased in clear containers filled with some sort of liquid. The liquid was being circulated somehow, and made the puppets sway and gyrate in a very disconcerting manner. Slightly scary! I ordered a round of drinks from one of the midget bartenders (I'm not sure if they were actually midgets because the floor behind the bar was lower that the restaurant floor, but it looked like this might be a clever ploy to cover up their small stature and fool me into thinking the bartenders were regular sized people standing on a sunken floor) which arrived just in time for us to move on to the table. Chicken tacos were the order of the day, and came paired with beans and rice. Delicious. After our Mexican dinner feast was over, we headed to Republic (a persnickety Hollywood club that Dupe's roommate got us into. Thanks Chase) to complete the full L.A. experience. Sadly, there was no drunken Britney sighting, but there are some great pictures of Senor Salty out and about in Los Angeles. You can find them in the new "Photo Gallery" section on thedailytaco.com home page. All around a great weekend getaway for The Daily Taco!