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Inside The Avalon Hotel's blue on blue Restaurant

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May 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM | by | Comment (1)

You don’t have to be Kathy Griffin with her bestie Paris Hilton to enjoy the poolside cabanas at blue on blue, the restaurant at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The hotel, which used to house aspiring starlets in the ’50’s, is arranged around a classic kidney-shaped pool. Though you can eat inside at blue on blue’s main dining room, we’d suggest calling ahead and trying to book one of the cabanas outside so you can lounge while you eat…and judge everyone’s swimwear, of course.

Executive Chef Scott Garrett’s menu rotates dishes in and out periodically, but a few of our recent favorites from the dinner menu include the golden beet salad with goat cheese, pickled red onion, toasted pine nuts and upland cress; diver scallops with toasted couscous and orange-fennel puree; Scottish salmon with caramelized turnip, young beet and purple mustard; and a crispy lamb strip with cannellini bean-romesco ragout, fava bean and basil flower oil.

By day, you can enjoy the breakfast and lunch menus with various finger foods, salads and sandwiches. The real action comes at night, though, when executives from the nearby agencies come for some serious deal-making, and tipples from mixologist Ian Porter’s outstanding cocktail menu. A sample? Try the oh-so-LA “Anti-Oxidant” made with VeeV acai liquor, Pom Wonderful juice, berries and a splash of soda.

There is also a poolside happy hour every Monday-Friday from 4-8pm called Kick the Blues with drinks and food specials. "B" is for bargain, blue on blue, and the B-list celebrities you'll scope there.

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love blue on blue

this is a great, chill place that feels current but not overly trendy.
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