Los Angeles
A neighborhood club for Larchmont
A short, old-fashioned shopping street surrounded by Windsor Square and Hancock Park. $49 a month, and everything inside at a 10% mark-up.
Larchmont Boulevard is four blocks long, lined with angled street parking and jacaranda, and it is one of the few places in central Los Angeles that reads as a village. Around it sit Windsor Square and Hancock Park, which are large, quiet and expensive. A club near Larchmont would serve the renters in the apartments east of it as much as the houses west.
What going out in Larchmont costs
Those four blocks are genuinely walkable and genuinely pricey. Coffee and something to eat is fifteen dollars before you sit down, and sitting down for dinner on the boulevard is a sixty-dollar-per-person evening. There are no cheap seats, which means the default is either paying up or driving east to Beverly or Third. Twice a week here is close to five hundred dollars a month. IRL costs forty-nine a month and marks the menu up ten percent over cost.
| Per week | In Los Angeles | At IRL | Saved / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekday coffee (5 a week) | $7 | $3 | $87 |
| Lunch out (2 a week) | $20 | $6 | $121 |
| Drinks (4 a week) | $18 | $4 | $242 |
| Dinner out (1 a week) | $30 | $8 | $95 |
| Monthly total | $766 | $270* | $497 |
*Includes the $49 monthly membership. Menu prices only, before tax and tip in the Los Angeles column, which is where the real gap gets wider. Annual difference: $5,959.
Nothing on that list is extravagant. Five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner is a quiet week. At Los Angeles prices it still comes to $766 a month, which is $5,959 a year more than the same week costs at cost plus ten percent.
Join the waitlist
Get a club in Larchmont
Join the waitlist. We open a neighborhood once enough people nearby are on the list, and memberships open in pairs or groups, so bring someone.
One quick thing —
You are on the list.
Memberships open in pairs (or more). People referred together join together, and bigger groups move up the list.
$49/month when we open. No card now. Leaving the waitlist is one click.
Making friends in Larchmont
The daytime crowd is parents, strollers and people who work nearby, and the street empties out by nine. Long-time residents know each other through the schools and the neighborhood associations, and newcomers in the apartment blocks on the east side have no equivalent. It is a place where you can be a regular somewhere for two years and never be introduced to anyone. An evening club with a fixed membership would give the boulevard a second shift and a reason to stay on it.
The mechanism matters more than the intention. A club has opening hours, a membership list, and a monthly volunteer shift, which means you end up in the same room as the same people on purpose and without scheduling anything. More on that in how to make friends in Los Angeles.
Where a Larchmont club would sit
We draw a walking radius, not a city boundary. A club only works if getting there is a short enough walk that you go without deciding to go. The first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. Larchmont opens when enough people here are on the list, which is the only thing that decides the order.
Landmarks inside or bordering the radius: Larchmont Boulevard, Windsor Square, Hancock Park, Beverly Boulevard, Third Street.
The short version
- $49 a month. That is the whole membership. No initiation, no minimum spend.
- Everything at a 10% mark-up. $2 drip coffee, $3 latte, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner.
- A 3-hour shift a month, if you want to. Plus one park day. Not mandatory, and it is the fastest way to actually meet the other members.
- Memberships open in pairs or groups. Anyone who joins through your link is in your group, and bigger groups move up the Larchmont list together.
Near Larchmont
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Questions
- Is there an IRL club in Larchmont yet?
- Not yet. Every neighborhood starts as a waitlist, and the first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. We open a neighborhood once enough people who live nearby have signed up, so the Larchmont list is what decides whether and when a club opens here.
- How much does the Larchmont club cost?
- $49 a month, the same in every neighborhood. Inside, the menu runs at cost plus a 10% mark-up: $2 drip coffee, $3 lattes, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner. There is no initiation fee, no minimum spend and no card required to sit on the waitlist.
- How much would a Larchmont member actually save?
- On a normal week of five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner, Los Angeles menu prices come to about $766 a month. The same week at IRL is about $270 including the membership, a difference of roughly $5,959 a year before tax and tip.
- Do I have to live in Larchmont to join?
- No, but it helps your position. Clubs are built around a walking radius, so we weight the list toward people who actually live close enough to drop in without planning it. You can join the Larchmont list from anywhere and tell us whether you live locally.
- What is the volunteer shift?
- Members are asked to work one three-hour shift a month, and to join one park clean-up day a month. Neither is mandatory. Both exist because they keep the cost base low enough to sell a cocktail for $4, and because working a shift next to someone is a faster way to meet them than standing near them at a bar.