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OnOn the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills is a newcomer called Hudson House, located on the Sunset Strip a block west of Doheny Drive, on the corner that shifts from high-rise office buildings and into the residential section of WeHo. The new hotspot is right next to SoHo House, Lavo, and Prince Street Pizza.

Hudson House comes from Vandelay Hospitality as the group’s first entry into the LA market. It’ll be interesting to see how it fares in LA, as a different restaurant with the same name already exists in the South Bay. The Dallas restaurant group owned by Hunter Pond is banking on a clubby East Coast-style menu with some local ingredients and flavor. Hudson House goes big on its open raw bar featuring oysters, seafood towers, sushi, and shrimp cocktails. Appetizers go heavy on big salads, cauliflower bites, and a Nantucket chowder using freshly shucked clams.

Overall it’s an unfussy and familiar menu serving traditional American fare. Of course, there’s a fish of the day along with crab cake and maple-plank salmon. Sandwiches include a lobster roll with fries, a Rutherford club sandwich, and a double-layer cheeseburger. Expect a substantial martini menu, along with frozen Bellinis, and some non-alcoholic options like the one made with yuzu, cucumber, basil, and honey.

When Hudson House opens next Monday, January 30, expect an interior that transports one to New York City or Boston with heavy dark wood accents, plaids, and leather booths. But outside, it’ll be hard to forget this is still West Hollywood, with plants placed strategically to help shield diners from the hustle and bustle of Sunset Boulevard.

Starting January 30, Hudson House is open Monday through Friday from noon to 3 p.m. for lunch, and dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Weekend brunch runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and reopens at 5 p.m. for dinner until 10 p.m.

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Matt Beaty wouldn’t go so far as to say he was “returning” to the Royals when he signed a Minor League deal with an invite to Spring Training with the club this offseason. But he did emphasize how excited he was to get to work in the organization he could have started his career with more than a decade ago.

The Royals drafted Beaty in the 48th round of the 2011 MLB Draft out of Dresden (Tenn.) High School and brought him to Kauffman Stadium shortly afterward to see if they could get him to sign. There, he met Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon, all beginning their rise to prominence with Kansas City.

“It was cool to be able to meet them at that time, then to see what they did in the coming years,” Beaty said. “And it just seemed like a good organization to be a part of.”

Beaty ended up attending Belmont University in Nashville, and he was drafted by the Dodgers in the 12th round of the 2015 Draft. He made his MLB debut in '19 and spent three years with Los Angeles, winning a World Series in '20. Through all of that, he never forgot about the Royals and kept in contact with area scout Sean Gibbs.

This offseason, Beaty was coming off an injury-riddled and unproductive year with the Padres. The corner infielder and outfielder played just 20 big league games and was 4-for-43 with San Diego, fighting through shoulder trouble all season. That led him to sign a deal with the Royals for the opportunity to make the team as a left-handed bat off the bench who can play right field, left field, first base and third base.

Kansas City doesn't necessarily have a need at any of those positions -- although third base will be an open competition in the spring -- but signing Beaty was a depth move to bring a veteran into the fold.

“When you look at the team, there’s a bunch of young prospects,” Beaty said. “It’s a very talented bunch. It’s exciting to come in and hopefully be a part of it. Hopefully I can bring some of what I learned in my three years with the Dodgers, on those championship teams. It’s exciting to hopefully be a part of that new wave, that new group.”

Beaty’s offseason has been focused on getting healthy, going to physical therapy and his chiropractor to make sure his shoulder doesn’t hold him back like it did last year. He feels he's made it back to normal, and now he has been working on regaining the form that saw him hit .262/.333/.425 in three years with the Dodgers.

The 29-year-old has been working out at Spooner Sports Institute in Tempe, Ariz., and he's also worked on his defensive versatility to maximize the roles he could play for the Royals in 2023. Beaty is familiar with the Royals' hitting coaches, too. Assistant hitting coach Keoni DeRenne was Beaty’s hitting coach in the Arizona Fall League in '17, and hitting coordinator Drew Saylor was Beaty’s manager at Single-A Rancho Cucamonga, a Dodgers affiliate.

“He was a player’s coach,” Beaty said. “I loved working with him.”

Perhaps working with the Royals’ hitting department could unlock some things in Beaty’s swing, too.

“I’m just wanting to come in and prove that I’m a big leaguer still,” Beaty said. “It’s always been that I have to earn a spot; that’s how it was with the Dodgers with the stacked teams they’ve had there. It’s still the same thing here even though I’m not on the roster going into it. And I’m excited for another opportunity, whatever role that may be.”

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It’s no secret the Kings are banged up at the forward position right now.

Forwards Trevor Moore and Arthur Kalilyev remain out with a week-to-week designation and neither player is currently with the team on the road. Todd McLellan indicated prior to leaving that both would remain in Los Angeles, rehabbing on their own, as they work their way back from upper and lower-body injuries respectively. Shortly before the trip, the Kings also lost forward Carl Grundstrom during a practice, as the physical winger suffered a lower-body injury that will keep him out at least through the All-Star break. As of this writing, all three players are on injured reserve.

Forward Gabe Vilardi has also missed the last three games with an upper-body injury. Vilardi was previously labeled as day-to-day, and did travel with the team to start the trip, but he has now returned to Los Angeles and is not expected to re-join the team on the trip at this time.

The Kings dressed 12 forwards on opening night, as teams tend to do, and four of them are currently unavailable. The current prognosis looks like all four will remain unavailable on the team’s final four games heading into the All-Star break, barring anything changing. After the way last season went, the Kings are certainly adept at not only dealing with injuries, but overcoming them. Last season’s team saw the bulk of those injuries come on the blueline, with younger players like Sean Durzi filling in and becoming lineup regulars in their absence.

“He created incredible depth on our team, last year when we had all of the injuries, we didn’t know what we had,” Todd McLellan said of Durzi. “When he came up, he instantly belonged, he created depth immediately and gave us another player back there.”

When you look at it from a team perspective, it’s an issue to have four lineup regulars out of action. For those who are looking to step in, it’s an opportunity. That’s what Durzi did last year and it’s created options and depth where perhaps it wasn’t thought to be prior. That’s what the Kings are hoping someone else will do at the forward position this season.

Even when a player like Vilardi was thought to be closer to returning, others coming into the lineup had to be ready to go when their number was called. In that situation, play your game and make the coaches make a difficult decision.

“It’s their job to make it hard on us to take them out,” McLellan said of opportunity. “There are some forwards that probably aren’t coming out most nights, they get longer leashes for whatever reason and then there’s others. Know your internal target to stay in the lineup and outplay it. That’s what we want on a nightly basis.”

For someone who had already done that, look no further than forward Jaret Anderson-Dolan.

Anderson-Dolan didn’t make his season debut until October 25 and played just twice before November 14. Since that day? He hasn’t come out. When he was out of the lineup, Anderson-Dolan was regularly seen as the first player on the ice, working on various aspects of his game on his own. He’s earned the word “trusting” from McLellan, even when he was playing the role of 13th forward as opposed to a lineup regular.

Since that time, he’s played everywhere from the second line to the fourth line, factoring in recently on special teams as well. Anderson-Dolan provides a style of play that can fit with most of his teammates. He’s currently playing with the team’s leading scorer, Kevin Fiala, and buried two goals off of Fiala’s assists in yesterday’s win. He was also on the ice late in the game, protecting a lead, as he has been of late.

He embraces that side of the game and believes that his experience of doing those things even as a team’s relied upon, offensive player, can benefit him here as well.

“I think it’s easy for me [to adjust], because in the WHL, I was used in those situations and even though I was creating offense, I was penalty killing and I was out there at the end of games in juniors,” he said. “It’s obviously another level here, but I’ve been in those situations before, internationally and in juniors, so I feel pretty comfortable out there and I take pride in being relied on.”

Anderson-Dolan is the proof and he’s provided several others now with the blueprint to follow in his footsteps.

Yesterday evening in Chicago, the Kings rolled out a line of young bucks. Alex Turcotte made his season debut at center, with Rasmus Kupari and Samuel Fagemo playing on his wings. On the second half of a back-to-back, McLellan is always quick to point out the importance of having a fourth line that can play regular minutes and that line gave the Kings just over eight of them last night.

Together, they allowed exactly zero high-danger chances against, with McLellan noting they played “trusting minutes”. There’s that word again……trusting. They also spent a lot of time in the offensive zone, making plays both off the rush and along the boards, showing an ability to cycle the puck and maintain possession below the goal line. There wasn’t that one, standout play, but perhaps that’s even better. The Kings don’t need flash in the pan plays, they need consistent production to fill open spots in the lineup.

Last night, the young fourth line line provided exactly that.

“I thought they were really good,” McLellan said after last night’s game. “They played with energy, they hounded pucks, created some scoring chances, checked. We trusted them the whole night, there wasn’t a shift where you feel good about them.”

Speaking with Turcotte last night, he said he was more comfortable playing in his second go-around in the NHL than he was in his debut. It’s almost a carbon copy of Fagemo’s quote when he made his season debut earlier this year and, if memory serves correctly, it’s quite similar to what Kupari said when he came back for the second time. All three players came together through the system in Ontario and all three players are draft picks of the Kings.

When McLellan uses phrases like organizational depth, it’s meant to extend to players like Turcotte coming back up, and Kupari and Fagemo who have been there before. Not everyone steps into action right away and contributes. Sometimes its about the right role and the right opportunity. Look no further than Adrian Kempe’s timeline to his breakout a season ago and Vilardi’s breakout here this season.

The members of last night’s fourth line are much younger and much earlier in their development process than either player, but only Kupari has really had an extended run of NHL games, for various reasons. With an opportunity potentially available, it’s up to the players to show they’re ready to seize it.

“[Players] are given every opportunity to evolve at their own rate,” McLellan added. “We want them as fast as you guys want them, but the right rate is different for all of the pieces.”

The Kings are in Philadelphia today with a meeting against the Flyers on the docket for tomorrow. The team currently has seven defensemen and 13 forwards at their disposal, with veterans Alex Edler and Brendan Lemieux out of action last night. They could opt to work either player back in, or potentially roll back the group from Chicago in hopes of a repeated result. More to follow from what’s expected to be a full-team morning skate from Wells Fargo Center tomorrow!

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Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n Waffles announced that its central LA location on Pico Boulevard is now closed. The LA-based chain dropped the news on Instagram over the weekend, officially ending its run on Pico slightly west of La Brea to focus on the newer Mid-City flagship on La Brea and Washington.

The Pico location closure was in the works for years. In 2021, owner Herb Hudson told Eater LA that the planned move was to shift Pico operations into a bigger, more comfortable space. After numerous delays — the newer location was supposed to open in 2019 — the Mid-City Roscoe’s debuted a few blocks away in October 2021. The iconic chain first opened in Long Beach in 1975 and has a total of seven SoCal locations.

The Pico location was a regular stop for celebrities, tourists, and politicians, including an unscheduled visit by President Barack Obama in 2011. The moment resulted in a three-wing Obama’s special, which remains on the menu. Roscoe’s Pico was also featured as a location in Issa Rae’s HBO show Insecure.

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Both Konbi now closed

Echo Park’s Konbi Ni and Konbi’s barely five-month-old Culver City outpost closed over the weekend. The popular sandwich shop posted the news via Instagram.

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Googie architecture and LA restaurants

Print Magazine highlighted one of LA’s most distinctive architectural styles in its current issue. Googie structures are throughout Southern California including Simply Wholesome, Norms, and Mel’s Drive-In.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure update

Starting today, Disneyworld closed Splash Mountain to start the next phase of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The future expansion of New Orleans Square will include a restaurant called Tiana’s Palace.

California oyster shortage

The Los Angeles Times reports that California is in the midst of an oyster shortage, and rain is to blame. Oyster farmers face challenges during this harvest season and as a result, some restaurants are removing California oysters from their menus.

For The Win at Grand Central Market

For The Win — the pandemic burger upstart with origins at a Hollywood strip mall — is officially Grand Central Market’s newest tenant. They’re open in the former Kismet space from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and expanding to seven days on January 30.

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The Portland Trail Blazers may have blown a 25-point lead to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night, but the bigger storyline in this contest was the budding feud between guards Damian Lillard and Patrick Beverley.

Beverley is known to be a pest defensively on the hardwood, and because of that, he’s made an enemy or two over his years in the NBA.

Lillard has been on that list since May when a social media feud took place after he tried to defend Chris Paul following comments from Beverley on TV calling the Phoenix Suns guard a traffic cone during last year’s NBA playoffs.

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While at the free-throw line in the second quarter for this game – a frame in which the Blazers outscored the Lakers 45-13 to pull away in the first half – Beverley was seen yapping at Lillard, who was at the free-throw line. Lillard continued to talk right back to him.

It got to the point where referees stopped play and issued a technical foul to Beverley, who continued to talk to Lillard as he walked away.

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Los Angeles would eventually win in stunning fashion for Blazers fans, 121-112, as LeBron James scored 37 points, leading all scorers, during the comeback. Lillard didn’t have his best night from the floor, shooting 5 for 17, though he did have 24 points, 10 rebounds and six assists in 40 minutes of play.

Beverley had four points, two rebounds and two assists, but the big stat for him is always the plus/minus when he’s on the court, which came out to a plus-27.

He also mocked Lillard's patented "Dame Time" celebration as it was clear the Lakers were about to win the game. Beverley looked like he was tapping a watch on his wrist and motioned to take it off and put it in his pocket as he walked off the floor.

But that wasn’t all. When a certain reporter asked Beverley a question post-game about his performance and mentioned Lillard had a "slow shooting night," the Lakers guard took exception to it, which would eventually cause some social media drama.

"If he would have cooked me, you would have said, ‘I couldn’t guard him.’ But he misses a couple shots and it’s a ‘slow shooting night.’ ‘Good job on Dame’ sounds better," Beverley said to the reporter.

When that video surfaced on Twitter, Lillard said, ‘Con man. Flip from above the rim.’ Lillard is referencing Bernie Mac’s character in the 1994 basketball film "Above the Rim."

Beverley fired off a tweet on Monday close to an hour after Lillard to say, "He mad. Entertaining," which is assumed to be about Lillard.

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This feud will have some time to fester before these Western Conference foes face off again on Feb. 13 in Portland.