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Like an ageless starlet, Los Angeles beckons the world west. Tastemakers from New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris have been heeding the call, opening outposts all over the city. As always, L.A. absorbs these foreign influences and infuses them with showbiz sparkle, ever secure in its own plastic-fantasic identity.

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3 Hotels 12 Restaurants 16 Activities

Destinations: Beverly Hills · Los Angeles · Santa Monica · West Hollywood · Culver City · Hollywood · Venice · Downtown · Downtown · Bel Air · Brentwood

Themes: Food + Drink · Hotels + Resorts · Shopping

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London West Hollywood

West Hollywood | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

The London West Hollywood, formerly the Bel Age hotel, received an ever-so-grand makeover from Irish architect David Collins. The all-suite hotel e
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The Standard, Downtown L.A.

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Downtown | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Georgia | Atlanta

Hip digs, reasonable prices, and a too-cool night scene are the draws at this André Balazs outpost. The trendy, whimsical interiors here are fun an
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The Peninsula, Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

The Peninsula Beverly Hills opens a 6,000-square-foot rooftop garden, complete with palm trees, wisteria, and jasmine, where guests can dine alfres
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Realm

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Realm stocks teapots and chrome fortune cookies in its Chung King Road housewares shop.

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Via Café

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Via Café offers Pan-Asian comfort food.
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Akasha

Culver City | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

Akasha is proof that Los Angeles's love affair with health-food restaurants rages on. The green-built industrial space is filled with waitstaff in
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3 Square Café

Venice | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

3 Square Café makes a great start to the day in Venice, with chef Hans Rockenwagner's apple pancakes or Leberkäse (Bavarian meatloaf), eggs, and ad
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Waffle

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Waffle, a rock 'n' roll coffee shop, serves carrot-cake versions of its staple into the wee hours.
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S Bar

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

S Bar and its restaurant companion, Katsuya, are leading the resuscitation of the sketchier stretches of Hollywood Boulevard. The Philippe Starck-d... More

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Craft Los Angeles

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Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Power lunchers adore this outpost of New York celebrity chef (and Top Chef host) Tom Colicchio, whose daily-changing menus are famous for their sea
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Bar Lubitsch

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Bar Lubitsch has an army of vodkas 200-strong and a dance floor appropriately named Red Room. Co-owned by Sean MacPherson, this no-nonsense L.A. ba... More

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Katsuya

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Downtown | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

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Hotel Bel-Air Restaurant

Bel Air | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

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Beard Papa, LA

Brentwood | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

Beard Papa has killer house-made cream puffs in its Sawtell Place mall location.
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Giant Robot, LA

Brentwood | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

Giant Robot - the toy, T-shirt, and graphic-novel emporium - is right at home in Little Osaka on Sawtelle.
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Voda Spa

West Hollywood | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Los Angeles

Voda Spa proffers a steam bath with a coed swimming pool and caviar body wraps.
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Seven Grand

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Seven Grand is Tinseltown's ironic take on the stag bar with taxidermy, hunter plaids, a vintage pool table, 200 kinds of amber liquor, and bourbon... More

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Library Bar

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Library Bar has an encyclopedia beer list, from Belgian ales to local microbrews. The piles of books stacked by the fireside sofas prove that the f... More

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Hollyhock

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Hollyhock, in the former studio of design legend Tony Duquette, draws a crowd of decorators in search of John Rosselli lighting, Robert Klime hand-... More

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Des Kohan

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Eight blocks west of LACMA, Des Kohan carries exclusive pieces from a roll call of the world's most in-demand names: Helmut Lang, Viktor & Rolf, Hu... More

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Kiki De Montparnasse, LA

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Kiki De Montparnasse sells serious silk lingerie in a lilac room with an aphrodisiac garden out front.
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Foxtail

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Foxtail, a dining and dancing club, is the new after-hours spot in West Hollywood.
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Limn

Los Angeles | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

Limn, a theatrical gallery of furniture by Zaha Hadid and paintings just in from Beijing, is a San Francisco import.
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The Essential Los Angeles

Our Picks

Hotels (3)

London West Hollywood

The Standard, Downtown L.A.

The Peninsula, Beverly Hills

Restaurants (12)

Realm

Via Café

Akasha

3 Square Café

Waffle

S Bar

Craft Los Angeles

Bar Lubitsch

Katsuya

Hotel Bel-Air Restaurant

Activities (16)

Beard Papa, LA

Giant Robot, LA

Voda Spa

Seven Grand

Library Bar

Hollyhock

Des Kohan

Kiki De Montparnasse, LA

Foxtail

Limn

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