Earlier this week, we talked about all the good things coming (fingers crossed!) to downtown Los Angeles. Today we've got a round-up of some cool new things happening in Los Angeles proper, starting off with this West Hollywood hideout. SUNSET MARQUIS: The rock star haven that is the Sunset Marquis...
March 21, 2013
..The Montage Beverly Hills and its view of Beverly Drive. While the Central and East Coast are shaking in their boots wondering if/what kind of weather monstrosity is going to hit in the next few days (it's March, right?), this West Coast cutie is standing proud on the corner...
March 06, 2013
Right on the heels of New York Restaurant Week is dineLA Restaurant Week, where the West Coast shows theyve got culinary chops to display as well. This year's twice yearly 12-day event goes from January 21-February 1 and patrons will be treated to showcases specially-priced $15, $20, and $25...
January 21, 2013
There might be little argument that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie make for the most interesting celebrity couple on this planet. After announcing their pending nuptials, the hearts of world-wide paparazzo may have skipped a beat, but the couple may have scored a point against the camera lens after...
November 12, 2012
We always love when Restaurant Week comes to New York so we thought we'd round-up some of our fave hotel restaurants for Los Angeles' own restaurant week, dineLA which kicks off today and lasts through July 27. Yes, that includes the weekend of July 21-22 as well. Best of...
July 16, 2012
Our resident celebrity hotel hopper, Josh Flagg is back on TV now that the fifth season of Million Dollar Listing on Bravo premiered last night. But life isn't all "house" work for Josh. As soon as filming finished, he packed up and resumed his whirlwind travels. Today he returns...
June 07, 2012
Last week, we tested your hotel knowledge with this snapshot and congrats are in order for Willfojo who correctly guessed that the barrel of Macallan Whisky can be found at The Montage Beverly Hills' secret bar, £10.Tucked away in a separate room above the Montage's Scarpetta restaurant, £10 is...
May 15, 2012
Awards season is in full swing and no one is happier than Los Angeles Hotels who will not only see a ton of celebrities at their properties but (hopefully) a big boost in occupancy levels as well.Fortunately, you don't have to know someone who knows someone to get in on...
February 10, 2012
The final season of Entourage is turning out to be one long-lasting makeout session with Los Angeles hotels. In the season's second episode, the boys found themselves unexpectedly shacked up in a "penthouse" suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt. We're using quotation marks because we're pretty sure that's a fake hotel...
August 24, 2011
It was during a routine Twitter browsing session that we came across an excited fan's 88-character message about spotting the big "O" at none other than the Montage Beverly Hills. Now, this hotel has been known as a haven for celebrities for some time nowMariah and Nick threw their baby...
July 29, 2011
Where there is a scandalous celebrity couple breakup, there is a luxury hotel in Los Angeles awaiting the broken-hearted with open arms and giant suites. The latest hotel to be there for that A-list someone is The Montage Beverly Hills where Maria Shriver is reportedly living while she works...
May 27, 2011
Reality shows are addicted to hotels like Charlie Sheen is addicted to goddesses. There's hardly ever a new show that pops up without its subjects doing something a hotel. From Top Chef to Real Housewives, The Bachelor and Celebrity Apprentice, hotels practically have a guaranteed cameo in every new...
April 14, 2011
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon found love at a Beverly Hills hotel, so it makes sense that husband and wife celebrate another milestone at a Beverly Hills hotel. Surprisingly, said milestone wasn't the mismatched couple's third-year glitch; instead, they headed to the Montage Beverly Hills for their baby shower....
March 10, 2011
J-Hud gets warmed up at the Beverly Hilton before her Aretha tribute. Last night's Grammys gave us some great performancesLady Gagaand some misstepsXtina almost falling on her face. Of course, it also means there was tons of hotel action, since the music industry swarmed Los Angeles for the awards...
February 14, 2011
If you're in desperate need of a destressing holiday spa treatment or if you're Camille Grammer and one of your four nannies for your two kids has gone AWOL, you won't have to worry about trying to find a babysitter at the Montage Beverly Hills. The hotel will take...
December 22, 2010
If you were following our tweets on Monday night, then you will know we were dining at the just-opened Scarpetta at the Montage Beverly Hills. But we weren't just hoping for a "Real Housewife" sighting, we were, in all honesty, doing some important research.See, we were rather anxious to...
November 17, 2010
Chef Scott Conant is taking his Scarpetta restaurant from NYC on the road, again. He's already opened Scarpetta inside the Thompson Toronto and will do it again with a different twist for the upcoming Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. But he's not finished. We've learned that Scarpetta will also open inside...
October 18, 2010
When a friend warned us that he would be showing up for our tea date at The Montage Beverly Hills in flip-flops we had a feeling that this wouldn't be the strict sort of white-gloved high hotel tea we've experienced elsewhere at HotelChatter. And we were right. Tea time...
August 25, 2010
We want to taste #ChefRuskell! Er, his creations we mean.We have a love-hate relationship with Twitter contests. For starters, the window of opportunity is so small, sometimes less than a day. Without proper warning, you could miss the contest entirely. And in some cases, the prize isn't all that great,...
July 27, 2010
Theres not much to celebrate about the ongoing recession, but at least one bright spot is the fact that Restaurant Week returns to Los Angeles twice a year and is, in fact, two weeks. This time around, it runs from Sunday-Thursday, January 24-29, and January 31-February 5. Restaurants fall...
January 25, 2010
The restaurants in the Montage Beverly Hills are not too shabby but in the hotel's backyard, two restaurants from revered chef Thomas Keller have opened--Bouchon and the more casual brasserie, Bar Bouchon, making them the place to dine when staying in Beverly Hills. While the Bouchon restaurant has been...
December 21, 2009
One of our favorite vacations ever was the "Saints & Sinners" tour of 2006 when we drove from Central Cali to Las Vegas for two nights of indulgence and debauchery. From there, we drove to its polar opposite destination, Southern Utah, and went off the grid, car-camping for a...
October 01, 2009
While the WSJ's Finicky Traveler had a so-so time during her stay at The Montage Beverly Hills, perhaps she would have been uplifted by the hotel's posh pool scene.Laurie Pike over at LA Magazine happened upon a totally "Only in Beverly Hills" moment when visiting the hotel last week....
May 20, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's "Finicky Traveler" spent the night at the Montage Beverly Hills, the urban sibling to the Montage Laguna Beach that was just (finally) completed in Beverly Hills and she found things to be a little bit, er, up and down, if not kinda shaky for...
May 12, 2009
Happy Earth Day! When we first did our Best Green Hotels report back in 2007, greening hotels was still sort of a new phenomenon. That was back when few hotels were moving past the little notes on the nightstand asking you to help conserve energy (and money) by only...
April 22, 2009
The ulta-posh Montage Beverly Hills, which opened its doors in '08, has managed to score itself another distinction (you know, besides being on Brit-Brit's radar and having seriously high opening rates): the hotel has achieved LEED Gold status, and is now the "first certified ultra-luxury hotel in Southern California...
April 17, 2009
So, let's just say that two years ago, you got a huge Christmas bonus and decided to reward yourself by spending yo' big check on a new Mercedes-Benz. You spent a couple dozen months cruising around listening to Pink's "Get This Party Started," taking extra care around the line...
February 06, 2009
As Britney Spears gears up for her upcoming tour, which kicks off this March in New Orleans, the back-on-her-feet pop princess seems to be doing a bit less of the Frapuccino-guzzling, flipping-off-paps stuff and has been engaging in more... grown up, big-girl things. She's been laying low lately to...
January 21, 2009
Guess the Hotel Revealed! It is indeed the Montage Beverly Hills hotel which we toured from top to bottom on Wednesday. And we have to say, there's a lot going on at this hotel. It all begins when you pull up to the hotel's entrance and if you can take...
December 12, 2008
The Montage Beverly Hills has already wowed the competition in Beverly Hills with its expansive new location in the city's Golden Triangle that includes an 201 guest rooms, an outdoor topiary garden, two restaurants (Parq and Muse), a two-level spa and dandily dressed bellmen. The hotel also has the old...
December 08, 2008
Update: Eater LA has pics of the resty, Parq.We had an operative passing through Beverly Hills the other day who peeked into the just-opened Montage Beverly Hills and took these snapshots for us. While we don't have any room photos just yet, we were surprised to see that the staff...
November 21, 2008
Dear Jennifer Aniston, Hey, girlfriend. Loved you on Oprah last week. And you know what? You're right: what Angelina did was very uncool, but it was also rather unfortunate that Vogue pulled that little tidbit from your interview and used it as your cover line on the front of...
November 19, 2008
From the folks who brought you Montage Laguna Beach, the Montage Beverly Hills a super-luxe 201-room property right in Beverly Hills' Golden Triangle (the area that falls between Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard and Canon Drive) officially opened yesterday. Boasting an extensive list of super upscale details like...
November 18, 2008
Work on The Montage Beverly Hills is coming along fairly well and we just thought you might enjoy a Peach Pit After Dark-type of construction shot.This is the side of the hotel that will be facing Canon Drive and what you are seeing is the underground parking entrance. But to...
September 18, 2008
Next time you're visiting a Montage hotel--like the Montage Beverly Hills that should be opening up in November--we want you to pay special attention to how the staff treat you. Because according to a weekend interview in the NY Times with Montage CEO Alan J. Fuerstman, his staff should...
August 25, 2008
Driving through Beverly Hills last week, we were at a stoplight and noticed that the upcoming Montage Beverly Hills has unveiled a bit of its exterior. Looking pretty good! The hotel is on schedule for a late Fall 2008 opening. The website is up but there are no guestroom shots...
July 22, 2008
The Montage Beverly Hills slowly continues to rise over the ritzy city's Golden Triangle. We were driving by the other week and snapped this shot of the construction process from the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Drive. But we're really curious as to what this place is going to...
April 25, 2008
Ali Kasikci shocked a lot of people in the hotel industry when he announced his retirement from the Peninsula Beverly Hills a few months ago. The man made famous for doing push-ups on the guestroom armoires cited a desire to move onto something new. We have actually heard whispers that...
August 30, 2007
Montage Beverly Hills,the sister property to the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, is going up pretty nicely although an opening is still a ways off. The predicted date is Fall 2008 but who knows if they will make it. We certainly don't put any faith in opening dates.Related Stories:· The...
July 17, 2007
Ah...Beverly Hills 90210. You think: the celebrities, the palm tree-lined streets, big mansions, and the glamorous stretch of Rodeo Drive with well-heeled shoppers prancing around carrying tiny dogs in matching outfits. But Beverly Hills has an actual community filled with real people, dammit, albeit real people with a nasty...
March 01, 2005
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