Vendome Liquor

August 6, 2009
Average size store. Made the drive from Agoura Hills expecting a great store and was a little disapointed. They did have a nice selection of imports and local brews but they were missing a lot of other regional brews I thought were going to be there. No Alesmith Summer Yulesmith or Pliney the Elder but they did have Winter Yulesmith which was wierd. I picked up RR Temptation, Anderson Valley 20th Anniv, Roots Organic Woody IPA, and Alesmith X. They did have GI BCS which I thought was pretty crazy. I thought Wade’s Wines was the better store. Just was not worth the drive for me.

July 11, 2009 [ Updated July 17, 2009 ]
This Vendome is in Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, which is about seven to eight miles from Koreatown - in traffic, about 35 minutes of driving in either direction. I guess this is where all the northern L.A. guys and gals get their brews! It blows anything else away if you’re like me just a tad northwest of downtown. BevMo in Hollywood isn’t better than this store and this Vendome location actually has its own convenient and free parking lot. LOTS of quality selection. Its own bar-like tasting area. Glassware. Cigars. And so on. It’s worth the drive. This Vendome location would even be a good competitor in San Diego county. (But I’m still looking for another Pizza Port Bottle Shop...)

July 2, 2009 [ Updated September 21, 2009 ]
I stumbled in here not during my first two years living here, but on my way through town going to San Fran two weeks ago. HOLY. LORD. Between Lone Hill and this place, you have your domestic and European bases totes covered. This place does work on things like t Smisje, Westmalle, Fantome, but also things like Cascade. First place I saw the 750s of CdT. Fair prices, especially for the location.

November 30, 2008
Huge selection, probably one of the best i have seen in LA Tons of belgians and other euro brews - always something new to buy that I havent had. Also a good selection of west coast beers and allagash beers. People are there to help if you need it - parking is easy out front - one of the best beer stores in Los Angeles

October 4, 2008
Great selection, pricey....due to location.

September 7, 2008
Very nice bottle shop, large selection. Nothing to write home about. Had a good selection of imports, found some Struise and a few others I rarely see. overall quite good, but not worth the 65 mile trip.

May 13, 2008 [ Updated July 22, 2008 ]
Wow, by far my favorite bottle shop ever. Think of any great beer other than the Westvelterns, and they have it. They have Milkker (7 different ones), De Dolle, Struise, Hair of the Dog, Cantillon, Rochefort, Full Alesmith, every Lost Abbey, Pizza Oirtm Ballast Point, Green Flash, every J.W. Lees, Ola Dubh, Nogne (8 different ones), Stone, amazing German and Scottish beers that I have never seen, Rodenbach and a great sour collection, Kuhnhenn, Russain River, EKU, Ølfabrikken, 3 Fonteinen, the list goes on. They have tons of Mead as well, and litterally, every style of Sake on ratebeer (trust me I have a bottle of every style). The Sake and Mead is very expensive, but the beers are reasonable. I picked up a 1998 Koshu, Cantillion Iris 2004 (haven’t had an unblended before), De Dolle Stille Nacht, a Kellerbier (which they had 6 different types of), and Struise Pannepøt. Great place, will return, could have easily bought over 200 bottles if I had the budget or the car to get all of those home.

April 15, 2008
This is the Vendome in Toluca Lake. I can’t believe it’s been almost 3 years since anyone has rated this place. This place is BY FAR my favorite place to buy beer in LA. Selection is INCREDIBLE, their beer guy, Scotland, does a great job stocking a huge variety. In the last few months, they have added at least 100 new beers. Great American micros, rare Belgians, obscure English and Scottish Ales. This place has stuff you won’t find ANYWHERE else in LA!!

August 4, 2005
Out of the way for me, but always great when I’m able to stop by. Lots of California micro’s, sometimes multiple years of say, Bigfoot or other favorites. Great staff.

July 26, 2004
Nice selection but a little on the expensive side! Alesmith, Stone and other Californian micros! I also got Sam Adams Utopia at $119.99 (the last bottle) which made my day!