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Versatile Restaurant and Event Space for Creative Opportunities.

186 m²
2000 sq ft
westminster
US
$2,400 / day
per day
press / launch
3 use cases
city
Westminster
area
186 sqm
day rate
$2,400 / day
postcode
use cases
pop up restaurant · private event · corporate event
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

This fully equipped restaurant and event venue is designed to accommodate a variety of functions, including pop-up restaurants, private dining, corporate events, workshops, content creation, photo and video productions, and brand activations. The space features a modern dining room with comfortable seating, a bar area, and an open floor plan that can be easily customized to suit various concepts. Whether you are launching a new dining experience, hosting an exclusive tasting event, or working on social media content, this venue provides a comprehensive solution. The facility is professionally maintained and move-in ready, making it ideal for private dinners, corporate meetings, birthday celebrations, cooking classes, food photography, commercial and film productions, brand launches, and product showcases. Equipped with key amenities such as air conditioning, a security system, internet access, and a fully operational kitchen, this venue ensures a seamless experience for all events. Your vision begins here, and we look forward to making your next experience unforgettable.

what's included

  • Internet
  • Air Conditioning
  • Security System
  • Stock Room
  • Counters
  • Fitting Rooms
  • Garment Rack
  • Lighting
  • Furniture
  • Sound & Video Equipment
  • Electricity
  • Heating
  • Parking
  • Elevator
  • Kitchen
  • Wifi

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 186 sqm floor plan and amenities for Versatile Restaurant and Event Space for Creative Opportunities, then note the window you want in Westminster. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 02

    Send the brief

    Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €2091 per day.

  3. 03

    Get availability and a quote

    We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Westminster.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 05

    Build and open

    Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Westminster.

use cases

pop up restaurantprivate eventcorporate eventworkshopcontent creationphoto shootvideo productionbrand activationproduct launch

location

plotting…
westminster·33.7400° · -117.9570°

what's around

12 stores within 600 m, incl. Lady’s World, SET International Home Shopping, Perfume Cosmetics World

brands nearby

Lady’s WorldSET International Home ShoppingPerfume Cosmetics WorldBánh cuốn Tây HồBolsa FurnitureTapioca ExpressLN Lanie Beauty SupplyMỹ Ngọc Hair SalonHair Spa Salon by TiffanyÁo Dài Tuyết ÝShiseidoHung TailoringLT Cleaners AlterationT-Mobile
fashion stores
4
beauty
7
design & interiors
1
culture
1
cafés
4
restaurants & bars
7
other retail
18
  • Saigon City Marketplace210 m
  • Banh Mi Che Cali390 m
  • Lady’s World460 m
  • SET International Home Shopping470 m
  • Kobe Bistro470 m
  • Perfume Cosmetics World470 m

the neighbourhood

Beauty brands, food and beverage operators, áo dài ateliers, tailoring houses and a steady stream of content creators make up the working commercial fabric around Bolsa Avenue and the Little Saigon corridor in Westminster. Within a five hundred metre radius of this address you have Áo Dài Tuyết Ý and Hung Tailoring doing genuine made to measure work, Perfume Cosmetics World, GiGi's Cosmetic carrying Shiseido, LN Lanie Beauty Supply and a cluster of seven beauty and salon businesses, alongside Bolsa Furniture on the design side and Saigon City Marketplace two hundred metres away pulling consistent weekend volume. The Vietnamese American creator economy here is real and commercially serious, with beauty and skincare launches, food media production and diaspora fashion labels running out of low rise units along Bolsa and Bushard. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, the ecosystem rewards operators who understand community media over those chasing generic Southern California reach, and it pairs naturally with a properly briefed influencer marketing layer built around local creators rather than imported talent.

Cost efficiency and audience specificity are the two reasons brands choose Westminster over Downtown LA's Arts District, Abbot Kinney in Venice, or the Melrose and Fairfax stretch. A two thousand square foot fully equipped restaurant and event floor at this rate would be difficult to match in DTLA, and impossible on Abbot Kinney, where you would pay a premium for footfall that is largely tourist and largely irrelevant to a beauty or food brand targeting Vietnamese American households across Orange County. What you gain here is a licensed kitchen, ample parking, and an audience that actually converts within its category. What you give up is press adjacency. Editors and West Coast buyers cluster around West Hollywood and Downtown hotels, and you will need to justify the forty five minute drive with a genuinely worthwhile format. John Wayne Airport is fifteen minutes out, which helps for flown in talent. If you are still weighing Orange County against a Los Angeles core address, run both through the budget calculator before committing, because the sqm value gap here is large enough to fund a significantly better build.

Arriving here feels functional rather than ceremonial, and brand teams should plan accordingly. This is a basement level space on a low rise commercial stretch, so signage does almost nothing and guests arrive because they were invited and given clear directions, not because they wandered past. Mornings are quiet, with deliveries and salon staff opening up. The rhythm builds through late afternoon and peaks in the evening, when the surrounding restaurants and cafés fill and the parking lots turn over quickly. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the space performs best as a controlled environment, private dinners, tasting formats, cooking demonstrations, product launches and multi day content shoots where the kitchen and the neutral dining room do the heavy lifting. The street dynamic works particularly well for scheduled, ticketed or invite led programming, and less well for anything else. Honest limitation: this is not a location for spontaneous walk in retail or maximum street visibility. If your KPI is passing footfall, look at our spaces in New York or an LA core address instead.

frequently asked

Yes — Versatile Restaurant and Event Space for Creative Opportunities is a vetted pop-up ready space in Westminster, 186 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This 186 sqm venue suits a brand with a 5 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 8 years of trading, and an existing DTC, wholesale or regional retail base in Southern California. The 4 to 8 day booking window and 190 person capacity make it a working venue for a defined moment rather than a season long lease, so the brands that get the most from it are food, beverage, beauty and lifestyle labels running a launch, a tasting programme or a content push with an in-house marketing lead and a small production budget. The basement floor level and Westminster location mean this is not a walk-in retail play, which is why a brand relying on passing footfall for sell-through will underperform here. Equally, a global house needing 500 plus guests, multi-week build time or a flagship adjacency should look at larger formats through venue sourcing instead. Pre-seed brands with no audience list will struggle to fill 190 covers.

Aesthetic Fit

Warm, hospitality-led and material-driven brand identities work best here: the modern dining room, bar area and existing furniture give you a finished, lived-in interior rather than a blank shell. Food and drink labels, beauty and fragrance ranges, homeware, tableware, apparel with a strong lifestyle narrative and any brand whose story is told around a table will read naturally against this backdrop. The fitting rooms, garment racks, counters and stock room mean a fashion collection can be layered in without heavy build. Where we see mismatches is when a minimalist, gallery-white luxury brand books a space like this and then spends most of its budget covering what is already there. Hard-edged streetwear, technical sportswear and clinical high-gloss beauty concepts tend to fight the room. If your concept needs a stripped back architectural envelope, this is the wrong starting point and dressing it out will cost more than it returns.

Best Use Cases

First choice is a pop-up restaurant or chef residency, because the fully operational kitchen, bar and dining seating mean you trade from day one with no kitchen build. Second is a brand activation or product launch dinner, where 190 capacity, sound and video equipment and controllable basement lighting give you a full evening format under one roof. Third is content creation, photo shoot and video production, since the interior offers multiple set dressings, dedicated lighting, parking for crew and an elevator for kit. Fourth is a press day or collection preview, using the fitting rooms, garment racks and stock room for sample handling and retail staffing to run appointments. Fifth is a workshop or cooking class programme, supported by the kitchen and open floor plan. Sixth is a sample sale, viable with counters and fitting rooms but limited by the basement position and the 8 day maximum.

Budget Signal

This sits in the mid tier for Orange County event and temporary retail space, priced above a co-working event room and below a comparable turnkey venue in central Los Angeles or Newport Beach. What you are paying for is infrastructure rather than address: a working commercial kitchen, bar, furniture, lighting, sound and video, air conditioning, security and parking are all included, which typically removes five figures of build and hire cost from a hospitality-led activation. Brands at this stage usually find that a hotel event space of similar capacity costs more once food and beverage minimums are applied, while a shared pop-up format offers a better street position but no kitchen and no exclusive control. Run the numbers against comparable formats with the budget calculator before you commit, particularly given the 4 to 8 day booking limit.

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