Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks plays the knockout secretary Joan Holloway on AMC’s “Mad Men” and is herself knocked out by all the awards and nominations the show has garnered. (The second season premieres Sunday.) But when that costume girdle comes off, she likes to relax in her Koreatown neighborhood and enjoy the many culinary delights this town has to offer.

PASTA AND SILKWORMS My favorite thing to do Friday night is probably go to Campanile with my boyfriend, Geoffrey Arend, actor extraordinaire. I love the sauteed trenne; I get it every single time. Everything there is good, and they’ve got a beautiful wine list. From there, we might go get a cocktail afterward at the Prince, back in Koreatown. The atmosphere is fantastic. It used to be a fancy-schmancy, silver-domes-over-your-food kind of restaurant in the ‘20s. They play Korean pop music, and they’ve got an extensive menu -- you can order things like silkworms. We’re very late-night people, so we’ll close down the Prince and then walk home.

LAZY SATURDAY On Saturday, we might get up around 1 and head over to CJ’s Cafe on Pico. You can get oxtail there any day of the week, and great fruit shakes, and really good breakfast for a really good price. Later, one of my favorite things to do is to go down to Surfas in Culver City, which is a restaurant supply store, and they just have gourmet everything. You walk in and it’s like the Willy Wonka of kitchen ingredients, it’s magical.

BANKABLE DINNER AND SHOW For dinner, we might go downtown to Pete’s Cafe and Bar, on Main. It seems like it used to be an old bank with beautiful high ceilings, and the bar looks as if it might be where bank tellers were working. They have really nice food, nice crowd and, most important, blue cheese fries! We like to go see a lot of bands, so then we’ll go to the El Rey for a show or to the Wiltern in my hood.

BUSY DAY OF REST Sunday, if we get up in time for breakfast, we go to Cha Cha Cha. I love the jerk chicken omelet with goat cheese, and the mangoritas. I’m a big knitter, so I’ll head to Suss on Beverly, or La Knitterie Parisienne on Ventura, and stock up on all my yarn and knitting supplies; I constantly have a project going. In the early evening, we’ll go to Pizzeria Mozza for pizzas and a glass of wine and the best dessert I’ve ever had, the butterscotch budino. It’s a butterscotch sort of pudding, but it has salt flakes through it, so you get the sweet and the salty; oh my goodness gracious, it makes me happy just thinking about it.

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