Best Golf Par-tee: Twilight at the Club

The Clubhouse in Griffith Park is more than a pit stop for your golf-lovin’ gramps to get his club and grub on. These days, the landmark building at the Wilson Harding Municipal Golf Course attracts a groovy young crowd, many of whom have more interest in chilling out than teeing off. Since Kyle Koester and Mike Begakis took over the space about seven years ago, they’ve revamped the coffee-shop menu with wings, homemade soups and savory sandwiches, and embellished the bar offerings (ice-cold schooners hit the spot after sweating it up at the nearby driving range). A new deck overlooking the park offers a breezy al fresco experience, but it’s the weekly shindig called Twilight at the Club from Silver Lake’s Ghetto Gloss Gallery that has helped to turn this establishment into a bona fide hole-in-one hang. Twilight offers DJs spinning funky, midtempo sounds every Wednesday, plus a rocking barbecue and beer bonanza at its outdoor bar. And if the gorgeous views and dark, foresty areas for heavy, uh putting, weren’t enough, there’s the place’s history to marvel over (it’s been around since the ’20s, though it was rebuilt in the ’30s after an earlier Griffith Park fire). Babe Ruth was a regular, as is Tiger Woods, and with the indoor area’s original décor still intact, it’s used in countless period films and TV shows, most recently the cable series Mad Men. Still, it’s the outdoor happenings that make this the coolest caddyshack in town, and current promotions include a Monday night beer and bratwurst special ($2 each), “66 and a Beer” (a bucket of balls for the range and a brewski for $6), and “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” the ultimate hangover happening, serving up $4 16-oz. Bloody Marys and all-day Mexican breakfast specials, like huevos rancheros. Fore!

 
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