Los Angeles
A neighborhood club for Los Feliz
Griffith Park on one side, two commercial avenues, and very old housing stock. $49 a month, and everything inside at a 10% mark-up.
Los Feliz runs from the base of Griffith Park down toward Hollywood, and the two spines are Hillhurst and Vermont. The Observatory is a drive up the hill or a long walk. There is serious money here and there are rent-controlled apartments here, often on the same block. A club with flat pricing would be legible to both.
What going out in Los Feliz costs
Hillhurst and Vermont are a few blocks apart and both are dense with places to sit down, which is unusual for this city. Walkable if you live below Franklin, a drive and a parking hunt if you do not. Expect seven or eight dollars for a latte, twenty for a cocktail with any thought behind it, and twenty-five and up per entree. A weekly dinner plus weekend drinks runs past three hundred dollars monthly. For forty-nine dollars IRL sells the same categories at cost plus ten percent.
| 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 Los Feliz
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 Los Feliz
A lot of the people here work in film and television, which means schedules that do not line up and long stretches of either being busy or being between jobs. Neighbors are polite and private. The dog run gets more conversation than most bars do. What is missing is a place with regular hours where turning up alone is normal, and where you see the same forty people often enough that the third conversation gets somewhere.
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 Los Feliz 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. Los Feliz opens when enough people here are on the list, which is the only thing that decides the order.
Landmarks inside or bordering the radius: Griffith Park, Griffith Observatory, Hillhurst Avenue, Vermont Avenue, Barnsdall Art Park.
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 Los Feliz list together.
Near Los Feliz
Other Los Angeles neighborhoods
Questions
- Is there an IRL club in Los Feliz 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 Los Feliz list is what decides whether and when a club opens here.
- How much does the Los Feliz 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 Los Feliz 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 Los Feliz 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 Los Feliz 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.