Speaker 1: Small business shout Out This Thursday features rooster Fish.
Speaker 2: They're in West Hollywood. They also have a spot.
Speaker 1: On Abbot Kenny there in Venice, but we Ho is
Speaker 1: latest Roosterfish. We Ho is the latest restaurant in bar
Speaker 1: to open in West Hollywood, and it's a familiar spot,
Speaker 1: at least for people like me who watched vander Pump
Speaker 1: Rules for the better part of my life. Alex joins
Speaker 1: us now and Alex, you helped to run Roosterfish there
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood.
Speaker 2: How long have you all been open?
Speaker 3: We're going on our six month.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so how's it going.
Speaker 3: It's going really well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Why West Hollywood?
Speaker 4: Well, the original Roosterfish, which opened up in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 4: is a historic gay bar, and we took it over
Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen and you know, reopened it still opened
Speaker 4: it up as a gay bar, but the demographics that
Speaker 4: changed in Venice we have a lot more of like
Speaker 4: a tech type of you know, Silicon Beach as I
Speaker 4: call it. And when we always wanted to take it
Speaker 4: to West Hollywood so it could go back to its roots,
Speaker 4: and we had the opportunity once Pump closed, we were
Speaker 4: able to take that location and it's the perfect location
Speaker 4: for for for for rooster Fish, West Hollywood.
Speaker 1: It's a nice spot too because it's bigger, much bigger
Speaker 1: than your spot in Venice.
Speaker 2: You can't really get big spots in Venice.
Speaker 3: It's bigger.
Speaker 4: And we also have food that we don't have in Venice,
Speaker 4: so we have a kitchen component. So we're a restaurant
Speaker 4: bar I want to say, actually a rest restaurant club
Speaker 4: because the nightlife is pretty it's it's not necessarily just
Speaker 4: a bar, you know. We really we have different events
Speaker 4: every every week and it's fun.
Speaker 1: Is there ever just a gay bar? Like isn't every
Speaker 1: gay bar a gay club as well? I mean you
Speaker 1: can go in in the middle of the day and
Speaker 1: it's a party.
Speaker 4: It definitely, especially on Santa Monica Boulevard and West Hollywood,
Speaker 4: it's always party.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Talk about the food, I mean, who's who's designing the menu?
Speaker 4: Who's so one of our one of our partners, Mario
Speaker 4: uh he is an Italian chef, and our our mainstay
Speaker 4: is you know, has a really we have really good
Speaker 4: peaks of program pastas and so on. But we're adding
Speaker 4: now more to it for because we're able to expand
Speaker 4: on the on the menu there, so it's really an
Speaker 4: American cuisine. We're gonna start We're gonna start putting some
Speaker 4: uh some sushi components. We're gonna have more salid options.
Speaker 4: It's a variety. It's rolling out next week. So I
Speaker 4: don't have a full menu, but if you if you
Speaker 4: check us out on our Instagram rooster Fish West Hollywood,
Speaker 4: you'll see all of the updates that are be coming up.
Speaker 4: But on occasion, like yesterday was country Night and we
Speaker 4: had ribs, we had barbecue ribs. Tonight is Papasito Night,
Speaker 4: which is Latin themed and we have tacos.
Speaker 3: Wow, so really check.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean like we're doing what Roosterish.
Speaker 4: Hollywood is like an ongoing show. So it's like every
Speaker 4: day there's a new there's a new event. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: super fun. It's super fun.
Speaker 1: You have to have a well stocked closet, you know,
Speaker 1: to be a regular, You've got.
Speaker 2: To have different outfits for different different nights.
Speaker 4: You have to, like even even for myself, like I
Speaker 4: have the constantly. Yesterday I was not shopping for cowboy
Speaker 4: boots and a cowboy you know me.
Speaker 5: Well, it was Wednesday, so I think everybody.
Speaker 2: Cowboy can't look like a fool.
Speaker 3: It seems like it because I couldn't find any.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of a farmer once a wife.
Speaker 1: I got into that show Alex last night.
Speaker 2: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: So what's your background? What the are you into restaurants
Speaker 1: and bars? Is this your thing? Is this what you've
Speaker 1: always done?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Not what I've always done. I'm one of four partners.
Speaker 4: It's myself, my brother, Vincent, Mario, Chef, and Patrick. But
Speaker 4: I've done a lot of different things. Starting off, I
Speaker 4: was I was in the army. It was a paratrooper
Speaker 4: in the army for a couple of years. Left that,
Speaker 4: joined the l a p D for a couple of years,
Speaker 4: and then transition into the family business with the furniture,
Speaker 4: and we did restaurants and bars and hotels and so on.
Speaker 4: And then about fifteen years ago my brother and I said, hey,
Speaker 4: let's not just make furniture for these establishments, let's actually
Speaker 4: own our own. Wow, And so that kind of that
Speaker 4: was the transition.
Speaker 2: I feel like I would watch your major motion picture.
Speaker 5: That's quite right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell us the parts you left out.
Speaker 4: I wanted to say we only had eight minutes, so
Speaker 4: I don't want to start.
Speaker 1: If a guy mentions furniture and the police, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't want to get into like Denzel training days
Speaker 1: type stuff right here.
Speaker 2: Okay, so parking is parking an issue?
Speaker 3: Parking is not.
Speaker 4: Well, Parking is not an issue in the sense that
Speaker 4: there is paid parking everywhere.
Speaker 3: There's valley parking.
Speaker 4: There's parking in front of the abbey, which is right
Speaker 4: on right right next door, and then we're right next
Speaker 4: to Bedega Louis and they have valley parking. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's never an issue.
Speaker 1: It's always fun there no matter what time of day
Speaker 1: you go over to that section of who it's a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 5: In twelve thirty right now, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: We don't open until five, but you guys are welcome
Speaker 4: to come over.
Speaker 2: Did you give up for Jesus?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, somebody else did? Oh Joe did Joe quant?
Speaker 5: Did you could go to Lent?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For Jesus?
Speaker 5: Oh right right?
Speaker 2: Isn't that the whole purpose of Lent?
Speaker 5: It is? The answer is no, I did not. I
Speaker 5: gave up other more valuable things.
Speaker 2: Wow, Naps, do you uh? Do you know?
Speaker 1: Is there like a I remember the mural at Roosterfish
Speaker 1: in Venice, Like, do you have that over there too?
Speaker 2: Is there somebody that did that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually have been waiting if the city was
Speaker 4: Hollywood is listening, We've been waiting for them to give
Speaker 4: us you approval because they count that artwork as a
Speaker 4: business logo and so we're only allowed to have X
Speaker 4: amount of frontage. But you know, it's very sad because,
Speaker 4: as you say, the location in Venice, we have a
Speaker 4: lot of artwork, Like now both the mural outside and inside,
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 5: The logo you're talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's it goes with the brand.
Speaker 3: It is, it is, it is, it's become the brand.
Speaker 4: But but the artist that did it, Diez, is amazing
Speaker 4: graffiti artists, and we actually have permission from him to
Speaker 4: recreate it. And in West Hollywood they just have not approved.
Speaker 5: You're waiting for the city.
Speaker 3: We're waiting for the city.
Speaker 2: Are you going to have a rooster night where people
Speaker 2: dress up like roosters?
Speaker 3: That could be interesting.
Speaker 5: Maybe you don't come up with maybe.
Speaker 3: You can come up with it. I never say no.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a good time.
Speaker 2: So I'll keep thinking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I keep on thinking of Cocktail Napkin that Alex
Speaker 5: Tappia one of the partners there at rooster Fish, the
Speaker 5: new one in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard, one
Speaker 5: eighty nine forty eight Santa Monica Boulevard. Again he mentioned
Speaker 5: the Instagram account it's at roosterfish dot we ho