Photo courtesy of General Porpoise
By MATTHEW MEYER | Reporter
Rick Caruso’s highly anticipated Palisades Village project added two new names to its list of tenants this week: General Porpoise, a coffee and doughnut shop from acclaimed Seattle restaurateur Renee Erickson, and Max-Bone, a boutique shop offering clothes, beds, toys and more for the pampered Palisadian pooch.
General Porpoise Palisades is a California debut for the James Beard Award-winning chef Erickson, who’s enjoyed plenty of success in her home state of Washington.
Alongside other popular Seattle ventures, her Porpoise doughnuts are adored in the Pacific Northwest for their house-made jam and jelly fillings.
Seattle residents warn online that there’s no point arriving late in hopes of grabbing one of the sweet treats—they’re often cleared out before noon.
The shop will bring those prized confections to Pacific Palisades along with specialty coffee from a variety of roasters.
The shop will be popular with the Instagram and Pinterest crowd—the internet is rife with glamour shots from patrons who always snap before they eat.
Max-Bone was founded by Parisa Fowles-Pazdro, a Swedish designer who worked in fashion and production before opening the luxury dog line in 2010. The line’s products can be found in boutique stores worldwide, and Max-Bone now has brick and mortar locations on Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood and in Soho, New York.
It will add a third storefront to the mix when Max-Bone joins the rest of the Palisades Village shops in a remade business district that’s projected for next summer.
The store will offer dog jumpers and hoodies, plush and rope toys, bowls and treats, and plenty of cozy beds. And for the feline-inclined, there’s most of the same fare for cats, too.
In June, Fowles-Pazdro told VoyageLA: “My vision for each product is to be part of your home and décor, to melt seamlessly into your surroundings.”
The designer hopes the brand will change the way people shop for their pets, turning it into a high-end experience.
So perhaps by this time next year, it will be common practice to grab a cup of Joe and a treat at Porpoise before swinging by Max-Bone to pick up a new toy for the pup—you might even head to a new dog park to enjoy them in, if Lynn Hylen, Leslie Campbell and the Palisades Dog Park Working Group have their way.
On to 2018.
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