(Ledger) Since 1999 · Santa Monica → Silver Lake → Venice → Culver City → Tokyo

A family, and the rooms they built.

(Prologue) LAM Ryan Hospitality Group began as a single bar on Wilshire Boulevard in 1999. Louie and Netty Ryan opened Temple Bar with one idea, diversity through music, and let every room that followed answer to it. What started as a live music venue became, over twenty-five years, a collection of bars, coffee shops and restaurants across Los Angeles.

1999 · Temple Bar

Santa Monica · Where it Began

Louie and Netty Ryan open Temple Bar on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, laying the foundation for what would eventually become LAM Ryan Hospitality. Conceived as a home for the sounds of Los Angeles and beyond, Temple Bar brought hip-hop, soul, funk, Latin, Brazilian, electronic and world music together under one roof.

Over the next nine years, it became a Westside cultural institution, hosting as many as 70 bands a month, a weekly KCRW night, and artists including Raphael Saadiq, Goapele, Antibalas and Quetzal. More than 300 portraits of the musicians who took its stage would eventually fill its windows.

2002 · Zanzibar

Santa Monica · Music Venue

Three years after Temple Bar, Louie and Netty Ryan open Zanzibar at 5th & Arizona, taking the same philosophy and building a room around culture. Designed as an intimate, unpretentious gathering place without allegiance to any one genre or culture, Zanzibar became a home for some of Los Angeles' most adventurous DJs and global sounds.

KCRW's Garth Trinidad and Jason Bentley held residencies, while the legendary Afro Funké nights brought together Afrobeat, funk, Latin, Brazilian, reggae and soul, with everyone from international DJs to Stevie Wonder & Prince appearing in the room. Zanzibar would become a Westside institution and further define the group's founding ethos: Diversity Through Music.

2004 · Little Temple

Silver Lake · Eastside Expansion

LAM Ryan takes over the former Garage at Santa Monica & Virgil, bringing their growing music community from the Westside to Silver Lake. Little Temple paired live performances with late-night DJs across two intimate rooms, moving freely between hip-hop, soul, reggae, Latin, electronic and global sounds.

More than a third venue, it became an Eastside extension of the community forming around Temple Bar and Zanzibar, connecting artists, DJs, promoters and audiences from across Los Angeles.

2007 · Townhouse

Venice · Bar, since 1915

LAM Ryan acquires Townhouse on Windward Avenue, becoming only the third owners of a bar whose history stretches back to 1915. Originally opened by Italian immigrant Cesar Menotti as Menotti’s Buffet, it survived Prohibition by moving the bar underground while a grocery store operated above.

The Ryans set out to preserve and restore the Venice landmark, eventually reviving its original basement speakeasy as the Del Monte, bringing live music back into a room that had been entertaining Venice for generations. Today, Townhouse remains the group’s longest-running property and a direct link between Los Angeles history and LAM Ryan’s present.

2008 · Angel's

Santa Monica · Jazz supper club

While plans to reopen the historic speakeasy beneath Townhouse worked their way through the city, Louie Ryan brought that inspiration back to Santa Monica. Angel’s transformed a small Wilshire Boulevard bar into an intimate 1930s-inspired piano bar and supper club, pairing live jazz, soul and blues with dinner, classic cocktails and a more refined style of nightlife.

Designed as something distinctly different from the group’s earlier music clubs, Angel’s marked an evolution toward the combination of music, food, drink and atmosphere that would increasingly define the group’s hospitality philosophy.

2011 · The Virgil

Silver Lake · Rebrand of Little Temple

After nearly a decade as Little Temple, Louie and Netty Ryan completely reimagine the space as The Virgil. The new concept pairs a Havana-inspired cocktail lounge with a dedicated live music and dance room, bringing a more mature bar program to the eclectic programming and community already established there.

With craft cocktails, DJs, live music and an ever-changing calendar of events, The Virgil became a neighborhood institution in its own right, proving that a familiar room could evolve without losing the culture that made it matter.

2013 · Menotti's Coffee Stop

Venice · First Coffee Shop

Menotti’s Coffee Stop opens on Windward Avenue, adjacent to Townhouse, bringing a new daytime rhythm to the group. The name revives Cesar Menotti, who first operated the building in 1915, while the shop itself combines specialty coffee, vinyl, music and the easygoing character of Venice.

Small in size but distinct in identity, the original Menotti’s quickly became a neighborhood fixture and established a new expression of the group’s hospitality beyond nightlife.

Great Coffee, Vinyl & Community Goodness.

2015 · Hatchet Hall

Culver City · Wood-Fire Restaurant

LAM Ryan opens Hatchet Hall on Washington Boulevard, marking the group’s first full-service restaurant. Southern-leaning cooking, seasonal California ingredients and live fire anchor the kitchen, while an expansive dining room, garden patio and oyster bar create a new kind of gathering place.

2015 · Old Man Bar

Culver City · Neighborhood Bar

Tucked behind Hatchet Hall, Old Man Bar carries the group’s nightlife roots forward with vinyl, cocktails and a deep American whiskey program, bringing food, drink, music and atmosphere together under one roof.

2017 · Menotti's Coffee Stop

Culver City · Second Coffee Shop

Menotti’s opens its second location on Washington Boulevard in Culver City, bringing the Venice shop’s mix of specialty coffee, music and neighborhood hospitality to a new part of Los Angeles.

The opening marks the first expansion of Menotti’s beyond Venice, showing that the identity built in a tiny shop on Windward Avenue could translate to a second neighborhood while still feeling distinctly local.

2021 · Menotti's Tokyo

Kitazawa · Japan

Menotti’s crosses the Pacific with its third location, opening in Tokyo’s Kitazawa neighborhood. Born from a long-standing friendship, the shop carries the familiar Menotti’s spirit (great coffee, music and an easy neighborhood feel) while taking on a distinctly Japanese character of its own.

The opening marks Menotti’s first step outside Los Angeles, taking a concept that began in a tiny shop on Windward Avenue and introducing it to an entirely new city and culture.

2023 · Si! Mon

Venice Beach · Central America meets California

LAM Ryan opens Si! Mon in Venice, bringing the flavors and foodways of Central America together with the ingredients and energy of California.

Set inside the former James Beach, the lush indoor-outdoor restaurant combines seafood, live-fire cooking, cocktails and a distinctly tropical point of view, marking a bold new chapter in the group’s restaurant portfolio.

2026 · Menotti's Coffee Stop

West LA · Third Los Angeles Coffee Shop

Menotti’s opens its third Los Angeles location at West Edge on Olympic Boulevard, extending the brand into West LA while carrying forward the coffee, music and neighborhood character established in Venice more than a decade earlier. The opening brings Menotti’s to four locations worldwide: Venice, Culver City, Tokyo and now West LA.