Hotel Cafe
The Hotel Cafe
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| Location | Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 34°06′01″N 118°19′48″W / 34.100412°N 118.329979°W |
| Owner | Max Mamikunian & Marko Shafer |
| Genre(s) | music venue |
| Capacity | 165 |
| Opened | 2000 |
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| www.hotelcafe.com | |
The Hotel Café is a live music venue located off an alley on the Cahuenga Boulevard strip in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that has become known for helping to establish the careers of new singer-songwriters in the 2000s. The venue began as a coffee shop, but has gained a reputation as an intimate performance space featuring acoustic-based songwriters, such as John Mayer, Adele, Damien Rice, Anna Nalick, Sara Bareilles, Katy Perry, Ingrid Michaelson, Priscilla Ahn, Charlotte Martin, Laura Jansen and Meiko. The venue has become its own brand, with its Hotel Café Tour, a record label, and two albums, Live at the Hotel Café, Volume 1, and The Hotel Café Presents...Winter Songs, that are downloadable via the iTunes Store.
When The Hotel Café opened in 2000, it operated as a coffee shop where singer-songwriters came to perform their material for small audiences. Co-owner Maximillian Mamikunian has noted that in the venue's early days, turning a profit was challenging, as the cafe's steamers and blenders could only be run between songs so as not to drown them out. Today, the venue's main room still has its five original elevated bar tables running along a hallway linking the front and back of the club, as well as six dinner tables set immediately in front of the stage. In 2004, the club acquired space next door and underwent expansion for eight months.
The Hotel continues to host live music seven nights a week, from touring national acts to up-and-coming locals. Past notable performances have included: Adele, The Lumineers, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Haim, Hozier, John Mayer, Mumford and Sons, Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson, Gary Clark Jr., Fitz and The Tantrums, Ed Sheeran, Pete Townshend, Laura Marling, Imogen Heap, Billy Corgan, Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Weezer, Alanis Morissette, Tenacious D, Bruno Mars, Sia and many others.
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