Pre Shift: The New Third Spaces

🍸🧡 Pre Shift: The New Third Spaces 🧡🍸

LA’s hospitality and creative scene is coming together for an intimate industry night focused on the future of community driven spaces, culture, and connection ✨ Hosted by Pre Shift in collaboration with Eater, Punch, and Spectrum Business, this event blends networking, food culture, and thought provoking conversation into one elevated evening in the Arts District.

The discussion will explore how restaurants, cafés, and bars are evolving beyond just places to eat and drink and becoming true “third spaces” where people gather, connect, create community, and build culture 🌆☕🍷 Expect insights from some of LA’s most creative hospitality minds followed by a cocktail reception with heavy bites and networking vibes.

Whether you’re into hospitality, branding, events, cafés, nightlife, or community building, this feels like one of those lowkey but high value networking events where everyone cool somehow ends up in the same room 👀✨

📍 Venue: Café Tondo
📍 Address: 1135 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA
📅 Date: Monday, June 1
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
🎤 Panel: 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM
🍴 Includes: Cocktail reception + heavy bites

💖 Panel Featuring:
• Abraham Campillo — Café Tondo
• Matthew Glaser — Vandell
• Sarah Lewitinn — Jacaranda
• Moderated by Lesley Suter, Editorial Director at Eater

✨ What to Expect:
• Hospitality + culture focused panel discussion
• Networking with creatives, founders, and operators
• Cocktail reception with food bites
• Conversations around community spaces & modern nightlife culture
• Arts District industry vibes
• Intimate, curated networking atmosphere 🍊