A Guide to the Best of Southern California : BROWSING : Dream House
Palm readers may seem a bit old hat in this New Age, but they’re still in demand in--you guessed it--Venice. Operating on the more unexplored end of Main Street in what looks like a summer cottage, Victoria Granof offers everything from lamb chops to Ouija boards to fortunetellers in her new restaurant/shop/roost for spiritual guides. She calls it The Queen of Cups.
Downstairs, there is an espresso bar and rose garden. Upstairs, customers can sit down to a meal--or perhaps just a cup of cream tea and a decadent dessert--amid shelves of new and used books on psychic phenomena, Tarot cards ($9 to $14), dream pillows ($10 to $35), loose teas in tins and more. After noon, in-house clairvoyants, astrologers and the like circulate throughout the house; a 15-minute session costs $15.
How did Granof, a former executive chef for the Atlas Bar and Grill, come up with such an unusual scheme? “It came to me in a dream,” she says.
The Queen of Cups, 796 S. Main St., Venice; (213) 392-5569 .
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