With Josh Radnor of 'How I Met Your Mother'

"I bought it last December, so I'm still in my first-year honeymoon phase," said the 34-year-old Ohio native. "I never had a place to host before, so it's fun to have people over."

He's enjoying it so much that if not for the nudgy folks at My Favorite Weekend, it would be tough getting him to leave.

"I find myself going out less and less," he said. "When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week -- it might be really nice to stay in!' "

Fish on Fridays

There's this restaurant on Beverly that I love called Hirozen. It's a little hole-in-the-wall that has fantastic sushi and all sorts of great specials; the menu's always changing. I always order too much, and the heirloom tomato salad is amazing, but it's just the quality of the fish that keeps me coming back to that little strip mall.

The music man

After dinner there would be nothing better than the Hotel Cafe. Music is my chief hobby, and this is a great venue for hearing it live. I spend hours scouring music blogs and finding new stuff and making CDs for people. I've had great success getting music I love onto the show, and some of it I've seen at the Hotel Cafe. It's a great, mellow, not so scene-y place for music. I was there two times in one week recently.

Mantra and a meal

I do Transcendental Meditation, and part of the reason I chose my house is that I thought it would be a great place to meditate. I can also go right out my front door and hike to Lake Hollywood and meditate up there in the outdoors. Afterward, there's a place nearby called Solar de Cahuenga -- nice crepes. And Cayenne Cafe, on Beverly, is a Middle Eastern hidden gem, and it's always great.

Caffeine comrades

I'm working on a book right now, and there are two places where I can get a lot of work done. One is Om Cafe on Fountain, and another is Buzz Coffee, which is a block from my old apartment. There are writers I'm friends with who I've never seen outside of Buzz Coffee. You end up talking a lot, because there's nothing writers like more than not writing.

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