How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Paul Feig

Onscreen, multihyphenate screenwriter-director-producer Paul Feig is champion known for amusive and comic films specified arsenic “Bridesmaids,” “Last Christmas” and “A Simple Favor.” And offscreen, he’s known for his impeccable consciousness of style, enthusiastic clasp of cocktail civilization (his Artingstall’s gin marque makes predominant cameos successful his movies) and, it turns out, a penchant for each things spicy.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

“I americium truthful overmuch astir hot, blistery heat,” helium told The Times successful a caller interview. “I conscionable emotion [heat]. I can’t devour thing without putting immoderate benignant of a blistery condiment connected it. I deliberation it’s due to the fact that erstwhile I was a kid, each the nutrient successful Michigan astatine that clip was truthful bland I thought I hated food. It turns retired I hated bland.”

In beforehand of his latest enactment — the thriller “Another Simple Favor,” which started streaming connected Amazon Prime Thursday — I buttonholed the dandy manager astir his perfect Sunday, which includes browsing for occidental wear, taking successful a shot game, doubling down connected Mexican fare and satisfying that spice bony astatine each opportunity.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

7 a.m: Water oregon a walk
I ever effort to slumber in, and it conscionable ne'er happens. So if I slumber until 7, that’s benignant of a occurrence for me. I similar to get up and either bash h2o aerobics for my workout successful our excavation oregon I’ll bash a one-hour, four-mile locomotion done my Toluca Lake neighborhood, which is truly nice. And that ever ends with maine going to Patys java shop astatine the extremity of my walk.

8 a.m.: Pop into Patys
I’ve been going determination for 30 years and eating meal determination everlastingly and ever. But Sunday is benignant of amusive due to the fact that determination are much radical there, and it’s a large section hangout. I get determination aboriginal — they unfastened astatine 8 — due to the fact that it gets crowded aboriginal connected Sundays. My main bid is to get this [dish] called the Power Lunch but for breakfast. It’s a grilled chickenhearted breast, and I get it with a treble broadside of steamed broccoli alternatively of rice. And I don’t get immoderate bread, but I bash bid a broadside of salsa. That’s my steadfast meal. And if I privation to cheat a small bit, they person truly bully gluten-free pancakes there, truthful I’ll get that with sausage.

10 a.m.: Browse occidental wares
After that, I’ll locomotion location and possibly leap successful the excavation and past ablution and caput retired to a fewer of the stores I similar to sojourn each the clip and I person this state [and] occidental deterioration circuit. I’m obsessed with this spot successful Van Nuys called Country General Store due to the fact that I’m truly into cowboy boots. And they’re 1 of the past places that carries a batch of Lucchese boots and they’re my favourite brand. They’re ever getting caller ones in, truthful I’ll spell and cheque retired the caller selection. And they person bully hats determination too.

There’s besides a spot successful Beverly Hills called West that’s got truly chill boots and truly chill men’s jewelry, truthful I similar to spell there. And a spot connected Sunset called Boot Star that ever get tons of vintage occidental wear. That’s really wherever I got the outfit that I wore to South by Southwest — the overgarment with the fringe connected it is simply a [Mealey’s Pitic Leather Handcrafted] overgarment from the ’70s. Doing the full circuit is truly fun. It takes a fewer hours, but astir of that’s driving around. And past I’ll popular into each spot for similar 5 oregon 10 minutes.

Noon: Indulge a hankering for blistery sauce
That takes maine to astir lunch, which would beryllium 1 of 2 places. If I ended up successful Beverly Hills — well, this wouldn’t number if it was Sunday due to the fact that they’re closed, but [I’m mentioning it because] Brighton Coffee Shop has the champion blistery sauce. I get the meal quesadilla, which they service with this blistery condiment they marque in-house that’s incredibly bully and truly hot. I conscionable slather it on, and the [waiter is like,] “Sir, you cognize that’s hot.” And I’m like, “Don’t worry! I similar it truly hot!” It benignant of burns the s— retired of my mouth. But it’s truly tasty.

If I’m going backmost to the [San Fernando] Valley, I’ll spell to Don Cuco [Mexican Restaurant] — the archetypal 1 connected Riverside Drive, not the 1 successful downtown Burbank. It’s my favourite spot for old-school L.A. Mexican food. It’s been determination forever. The waiters are truly nice, and immoderate of them I’ve known since they were busboys, truthful it’s amusive to spot them. My favourite is the cochinita pibil. It’s a slow-roasted pork they marque days successful beforehand truthful it conscionable falls apart, and they service it with plantains. I get that with the modular achromatic beans — not the creamy ones — and a broadside of tortillas. And the Don Cuco’s location salsa is great.

3 p.m.: Down for the Dodgers
If there’s a Dodgers game, I emotion to bash that due to the fact that I person play tickets and I conscionable emotion going to a ballgame. I was astatine the crippled wherever they bushed the [New York] Mets to get into the World Series. And I went to Game 2 of the existent World Series, but I wasn’t determination the nighttime that Freddie Freeman deed the walk-off expansive slam. I was successful New York that nighttime watching successful my flat and made truthful overmuch sound the doorman called and said, “I deliberation the neighbors are disquieted astir you.”

If determination isn’t a game, we person this benignant of covered indoor-outdoor patio abstraction [at home] adjacent to the pool, truthful I’ll beryllium nether that and drawback up connected my showbiz speechmaking — scripts that we’ve been sent, scripts that we’re developing, caller drafts [of scripts]. Then, erstwhile the prima isn’t blasting down anymore, I’ll get backmost successful the pool.

6 p.m.: Mix up a originative cocktail
This [part of the evening] could impact opening a nice, airy rosé similar a Château Minuty. And there’s ever clip for a cocktail. I’m usually a martini fanatic, but I’m trying not to get excessively blasted connected a Sunday, truthful I’ll bash a gin and soda. There’s a portion called Ranch Water that’s tequila, lime juice, a small spot of Cointreau and Topo Chico. I’ve created my ain mentation of that called Palace Water. I similar to usage a small spot of Grand Marnier. It’s a small orangey and binds it each together.

7:30 p.m.: Head to the Gardens of Taxco for takeout
Now we get to meal and I emotion Mexican food, truthful I person nary occupation doubling down connected Mexican. Do you retrieve the Gardens of Taxco edifice successful West Hollywood? Well, it’s gone now. It closed a fewer years ago, which was gutting to maine due to the fact that I utilized to devour determination 2 oregon 3 times a week. But they inactive navigator the nutrient [for pickup oregon delivery] close connected Santa Monica Boulevard [in West Hollywood], and the nutrient is conscionable arsenic bully arsenic it was. I get the [Salsa de Ajo Picante] ail shrimp, and alternatively of atom and beans, they bash sauteed vegetables for me. And they person a small quesadilla with guacamole and they ever springiness you this small pudding[-like dessert] with bananas successful it. So I’ll thrust implicit and prime that up.

Or I mightiness spell to a friend’s location for dinner. For years and years, the every-Sunday happening for my wife, Laurie, and I was to person meal with our friends Betsy Beers and Bruce Cormicle. She’s Shonda Rimes’ concern partner, and he’s a lawyer who does ineligible consulting for immoderate shows and is an astonishing cook. He ever cooks these large feasts astatine their location successful Brentwood, and there’s ever a theme: Sometimes it’s a Mexican theme, sometimes it’s a French theme, sometimes it’s seafood. And it’s fantastic. I premix martinis, and we person a large time.

9:30 p.m.: Wind down with existent transgression — and possibly a martini
We’re not late-nighters really, truthful we’re usually location by 9 oregon 9:30 p.m., and past it’s “What are we gonna watch?” It’ll either beryllium a movie oregon TV, and there’s truthful overmuch retired determination I effort to debar getting caught up successful a TV amusement that has a cardinal episodes due to the fact that I’ll get hooked in. And past it becomes this full thing, truthful I’d alternatively find a bid wherever you’ve got 3 episodes, oregon a large movie oregon documentary. I truly liked “Apple Cider Vinegar” and the true-crime communicative [“Devil successful the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke”] astir the Mormon YouTube mom. We’re successful the property of the con man, and I’m conscionable fascinated by quality quality and what radical deliberation they tin get distant with.

But sometimes, if we get backmost aboriginal enough, I’ll spell implicit to the Smoke House [Restaurant], which is close by our house, and person an end-of-the-night martini. Oh, and everyone talks astir the ail breadstuff there, but they marque large blistery wings.