A six-story movie screen, over a score of choices in dining, dancing and entertainment and dozens of unusual, one-of-a-kind shops and popular retailers highlight the array of venues at Universal CityWalk, Southern California�s landmark entertainment promenade.
Universal CityWalk, an outdoor entertainment and shopping promenade adjacent to Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Amphitheater, features more than 65 restaurants, retail venues, nightclubs and entertainment attractions housed within architecturally diverse streets featuring a cascade of neon lights, vintage fluorescent signs, live street performers, streaming music and a dancing fountain.
A culinary kaleidoscope, CityWalk features over two dozen restaurants including California�s famed Gladstones serving fresh fish daily, Shanghai and Mein featuring noodles and dim sum, sushi house Wasabi and the Daily Grill, featuring a variety of American cuisine, including chicken pot pie, succulent steak dinners and mashed potatoes.
The grand-daddy of theme restaurants, the Hollywood Hard Rock Caf� rests in the heart of CityWalk while Wolgang Puck�s signature caf�, at the beginning of the promenade, serves the celebrated chef�s pizzas, pastas and salads. Steps away from the entrance to Universal Studios Hollywood sits the Saddle Ranch Chop House serving a Texas-sized menu of meat and potatoes amid a spacious patio, dance floor, stage, and signature mechanical bulls.
Also featured is Buca di Beppo, named one of Bon Appetit magazine�s best restaurants and serving Southern Italian food served family-style and the festive tapas restaurant, Caf� Tu Tu Tango, designed to mimic an artist�s loft in Barcelona with brushes on the tables, paintings in progress and spontaneous performances by dancers and musicians. Other restaurants include Camacho�s Cantina, Tony Roma�s and Pizza Puccino.
The Karl Strauss Microbrewery and Beer Garden offers the finest quality microbrew in a relaxing setting in CityLoft, an entertainment district constructed above the CityWalk crowds. Neighboring night clubs include dueling piano Bar Howl at the Moon, the Latin dance club The Rumba Room and BB Kings serving food and music for the soul.
CityFood serves quick-service renditions of some of Southern California�s most popular restaurants in an al fresco-dining environment featuring hundreds of tables overlooking CityWalk�s center plaza. Guests can enjoy Versailles, serving Cuban cuisine, ball-park favorite Dodger Dogs, Memphis-barbeque at The Pig, Rubio�s Baja Grill, Panda, Pit Fire Pizza Co. and Tommy�s Hamburgers.
CityWalk�s retail shop offerings are designed to appeal to consumers� sense of whimsy with unusually designed store spaces offering an eclectic choice of merchandise along with popular brand names. The wide range of retail offerings including popular retailers Abercrombie & Fitch, Sketchers, Kelly Slater�s Quicksilver, Billabong, Hot Topic, Sam Goody and Hollywood Harley Davidson. Other shopping highlights include Team LA, featuring Los Angeles� largest selection of officially licensed merchandise from all NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB and MLS teams; Raiders Image, offering all things silver-and-black; Sparky�s, a real-life Candy Land; the Wound & Wound Toy Company for wind-up toys; Them!, for movie-related memorabilia and merchandise; Popcornopolis, a sweet-tooth�s paradise and Magnet Max, the world�s largest collection of refrigerator art.
Entertainment venues include Jillain�s Hi-Life Lanes, a rock n� roll bowling alley and arcade for children and adults alike, NASCAR virtual racing and an18-theatre Cinema and IMAX. The Zen Zone, LA�s first convenience speed spa, boasts affordable aqua massages and an oxygen bar. Information on CityWalk is available at www.citywalkhollywood.com or 818/622-4455. CityWalk is located of the 101 Hollywood Freeway, Cahuenga Blvd. or via the MTA Red Line.
Universal Studios Hollywood (www.universalstudioshollywood.com) is a unit of Universal Parks & Resorts, a division of Vivendi UNIVERSAL Entertainment (VUE) (www.universalstudios.com), the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company.
###
Meida Contact: Sara Hills (818) 622-9504 sara.hills@unistudios.com