Lou Lou’s Jungle Room Opens at the Lafayette Hotel | Eater San Diego

"Inside the Lafayette Hotel & Club, the Mississippi Room has been revived as Lou Lou’s Jungle Room, a new supper club and live music venue launching Saturday, January 20 with a sold-out show by Thee Sacred Souls. I found the space’s historic clamshell stage—dating to the hotel’s mid-1940s heyday—and its original sunken hardwood dance floor, unearthed during restoration, give it a classic, mid-century concert-hall vibe. Programmed with help from Tim Mays, Lou Lou’s will host a mix of traveling and local acts with regular live entertainment Thursday through Saturday and occasional special events, and CH Projects hopes the 580-capacity room will attract notable out-of-town acts. It’s designed as a hospitality-focused supper club, pairing select shows with a chophouse-style prix-fixe menu from chef Ted Smith (formerly of Born & Raised) and a standing residency with jazz musician Gilbert Castellanos. Beverage director Alicia Perry plans a champagne program and tableside cocktail service, and the room’s circular bar—immortalized in a Top Gun scene—will serve both signature cocktails (like espresso martinis and gin and tonics made with a saffron-infused “Bollywood tonic”) and standard call drinks to non-ticketholders before and after shows." - Candice Woo