The 17,500-seat outdoor amphitheater nestled into the Hollywood Hills, summer home of the LA Philharmonic since 1922. Everyone from The Beatles to Radiohead has played the shell. Picnic-allowed benche...
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Funke
Italian / Pasta · Beverly Hills
Evan Funke's multi-level Beverly Hills headquarters for handmade pasta — the fresh-pasta temple he's spent a career building, now with a rooftop bar and prices to match the zip code. Rigatoni vodka, c...
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The Restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air
Californian / Contemporary · Bel-Air
The Hotel Bel-Air's fine dining room — pink stucco walls, swans on the pond, Wolfgang Puck running the kitchen, and a guest list that has included presidents, oil princes, and movie stars for half a c...
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Polo Lounge
American / Continental · Beverly Hills
Inside the Beverly Hills Hotel's Pink Palace — the Polo Lounge has been the Hollywood-power-breakfast since the 1940s. Agents, studio executives, and A-list actors still book this room every morning. ...
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Sunset Tower Hotel
American / Classic · West Hollywood
The 1929 art-deco hotel above the Sunset Strip, and specifically the dining room Jeff Klein turned into one of LA's most consistent celebrity-but-dignified rooms. Dover sole, caesar salad, a martini c...
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71 Above
Fine Dining / Rooftop · Downtown LA
71st floor of the US Bank Tower — the highest restaurant west of the Mississippi, with floor-to-ceiling glass and views that make the tasting menu feel earned. New-American menu, wine program that act...
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Mar'sel at Terranea Resort
California Coastal / Fine Dining · Rancho Palos Verdes
Inside the Terranea Resort on the Palos Verdes cliffs — Pacific-Ocean-on-three-sides views, a tasting menu that leans California coastal, and the kind of special-occasion drive most Angelenos only mak...
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BOA Steakhouse
Steakhouse / Modern · West Hollywood
The Sunset Strip steakhouse where agents book power lunches and starlets appear in half the Instagram geotags. Chef-curated prime steaks, a rooftop that never takes itself too seriously, and a valet l...
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Cliff's Edge
Modern / Patio · Silver Lake
Silver Lake's secret-garden restaurant — twinkling-light patio underneath a centuries-old ficus tree that hides half the dining room in leaves. Menu runs seasonal California-Italian with real kitchen ...
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Spire 73
Rooftop Bar / American · Downtown LA
73rd floor of the InterContinental — the tallest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere. Fire pits at the edge of a glass rail, skyline wrapping on three sides, and a cocktail menu calibrated for the ...