NIGHT LINES

Commuting to Pasadena is getting a bit friendlier. La Grande Orange Cafe, a spacious restaurant with a separate bar (pictured), occupies the former Santa Fe Railway Depot (260 S. Raymond St.) at the Gold Line’s Del Mar stop. The venue, the first in California from Arizona-based LGO Hospitality, was designed by Spacecraft’s Kristopher Keith, the man behind hot Hollywood club Goa, and is projected to open March 17. “It’s a historic landmark,” Keith says of LGO, which has giant glass rolling doors inside the bar that open out to a courtyard. “So I couldn’t touch the outside too much. . . . What I tried to do is split the difference by keeping the furniture plain but using the materials they might have used [in the 1930s], like mahogany and leather.” Expect a second bar, Radio Milano, to open up inside a back room at LGO Cafe by the end of the year. . . . Further proof of the blurring between restaurant and bar can be seen tonight at the Sauza Hornitos tequila-sponsored pre-opening preview of Eva Longoria’s restaurant (with a massive main floor bar), Beso, on Hollywood Boulevard. . . . Two long-running Hollywood weeklies at the Dragonfly are moving on this month. Tigerbeat, the popular ‘80s-themed dance party, is now at the Avalon every Thursday. And Miss Kitty’s, the popular fetish weekly, is having its finale on Friday, its sixth anniversary. Details on the new venue (it may end up being a monthly at the Dragonfly or a different locale) will be revealed at the party. . . . And despite reports to the contrary, the 12,500-square-foot dance club formerly known as Crobar will open this year. The nightspot, inside the Fox Theater, will have a new name and has not had anything to do with the Chicago-based Crobar chain since late last year. Owner Robert Vinokur admits permit-related construction delays but promises a September opening.

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-- Charlie.Amter@latimes.com