Oct 30, 2013

LA Con - West Hollywood - 3 Stars

Environment 1: Right off Melrose, parking is not any trouble for me in this area, I used to live right here and know where to park. I like this part of town. Lots of little shops to go to, restaurants, and very nice neighborhoods surrounding. The check-in room here is TINY, the smallest I've ever seen. 2 people could cram in there together and that's about it. After that you go into the bud room, which is very large. Some what organized, however this place has REALLY gone down hill from when I used to frequent it 2+ years ago. What a shame. The bud shelves looked empty. The area where they used to have their clones was clothed off... definitely looked messy and unprofessional If you go straight back passed the bud room you will enter the cozy, quaint hash bar. This place USED to be the SHIT...now its gone to shit. The hash bar is almost as dirty and unorganized as Rediculousness. It looks like they are in the middle of a light renovation, but you can tell they are just dirty. The crowd this place attracts are your average hipster, brain dead, ghetto dabbers with major ego's. WEAK. This place USED to be really high class, some where you could take a date and even listen to some live music on the mini stage. The people that used to come in here were very professional and friendly. Sponge Bob playing on the TV is not always a bad thing, but in conjunction with everything else, it just makes this place seem low class and trashy. They USED to use all illidelph glass, a very high end glass company. Now they use a bunch of random shit, looks like they shop in Chinatown. What a let down.

Staff 0: The security guy makes no effort to give you a good experience. He didn't speak one word to me. I looked at the bud \ over heard the bud tender speaking, she didnt seem to have much knowledge, she just seemed really high. In the hash bar, the bartender was SUPER FADED, and pretty obnoxious. This place is definitely for the egotistical young stoner comunity. No professionalism at all. 
Variety .5: This place uesd to have 10-20 hashes, and maybe 3-5 waxes...now its the opposite. I LOVED this place because they really focused on the hash. I tried 3 flavors and all were pretty good, but not phenomenal  You can tell everyone's all about the BHO here. The selection of hashes has gone way down, and I honestly wasnt too impressed with the BHO menu either.  I didnt purchase any herb, but they didnt have much to choose from. No edibles, no CBD, no topicals etc. weak.

Quality 1: The flowers they did have looked pretty dank. The hash I'd give a 7/10. They always used to have dank flower, though its a little pricey. The BHO didn't look that great, no clear concentrates or shatter in stock when I was there.

Price .5: These guys will charge $60 an 8th if they can. The hash bar is $10 for a serving...cool thing about this spot is they will break your dab\hash hit into smaller hits for you... which having acute asthma really makes a big difference for me! I fucking hate these douchebags trying to make everyone cough till their airways close up like their\our manhood rests on it. Props for being one of the only hash bars to do this.

LA Con hash bar used to be legendary...a clean/ high end space with lots of high quality hashes and herbs. It was a real treat to go in here and enjoy the ambiance, live music, cool bud tenders, and just chill out and smoke using some really high end glass. 
Not the case anymore.
I asked them right when I got in there if there was new owners in the past couple years and was told yes. Surprise surprise. You can still go to this spot for live Jazz on Sundays I believe, but I can only handle so many of Hollywood's egotistical degenerate youth... probably wouldn't be too pleasurable for me these days.
If you are in the area and want to get high and kill some time, it will do the job. I am a bit critical of this spot because it used to be so good, and has really dropped off. Its about on par with every other hash\dab bar around LA these days tho... kind of sucks no one is trying to raise the bar any more. 

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