Allston Yacht Club - Los Angeles

For just $20, you'll get a certificate to spend $40 on great wines and New American fare at stellar Echo Park small plates restaurant, Allston Yacht Club. AYC, an homage to the owners' old Boston stomping grounds (Allston is a neighborhood in beantown, just south of downtown) has become a neighborhood fixture and the standby place for a snack, a feast, a glass or a bottle. Accommodating any and all appetites for great small plates and cheese, wines by the glass and original cocktails in a cool, relaxed atmosphere.

After being in film production for 20 years, the two founders gave inception to AYC to bring a  little bit of Boston to LA. It was a place that they themselves will be interested in going to: a place that emphasized the social aspects of dining which we thought began with sharing food and the enhancement of being able to try a lot of different things on a normal appetite. A wine program was a must, modest though it is, and a group of house cocktails rounded out the concept of an informal, affordable neighborhood restaurant/bar for the eater and the drinker in equal measure. They named it after their beloved former neighborhood in Boston where they both toiled in the restaurant business and where the seeds of our project were planted.