Location Club Forbidden City
1718 Vine St.
Hollywood, CA 90028 Contact Tel:
(818) 663-0047 Map and Direction Click
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Eat, drink & sin on the world famous strip of Hollywood &
Vine! The Forbidden City is the perfect place for a night out on
the town or a private function! Featuring 5 unique areas, 2 dance
floors, 2 open air patios, 4 premium bars,
a full kitchen with Asian-fusion cuisine, plus VIP booths &
beds for table reservations.
As far as Far East authenticity goes, this Hollywood party palace
is more David Carradine than Bruce Lee. But it's no ancient Chinese
secret that Hollywood Boulevard has replaced Sunset Boulevard as
the place to party, thanks in part
to versatile venues like this supper club.
The black-wood-and-crimson interior is filled with stereotypical
Asian ambience (hanging red lanterns, stone Buddhas and dragons,
and more gold than Lil' John's mouth); the Chinese menu is unspectacular
but moderately priced. A Zen-like lounge area on the first floor
has comfy booths and a glitzy bar with bookend fish tanks, and the
dining area converts into a cramped dance floor with hearty servings
of hip-hop and rare grooves. It also opens up to two expansive open-air
patios, where clubbers mingle, mack and light up underneath the
Capitol Records building. Then there's the more upscale VIP/mezzanine
area upstairs, where haughty naughtiness takes place on modernistic
furnishings. Forbidden City has played host to high-profile parties
from Stuff magazine and Toyota Scion, but usually draws a multi-culti
mix of Urban-Outfitted twentysomethings and divorcees displaying
cleavage.
