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Bistrotek Is Not Your Usual Airport Hotel Restaurant

Where: 8639 Lincoln Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90045

UPDATE: Bistrotek is apparently closed for renovations. We will update you on when it reopens.

It used to be that if you were traveling and wanted a good meal, you’d go anywhere but an airport hotel. Usually those sorts of places were mere way-stations for travelers too jetlagged to care how bland or unoriginal the food was.

No more. Along with the renaissance of boutique hotels around the country, has come an equally impressive burgeoning of restaurants, bistros and brasseries, even at airport hotels like Avi Brosh’s monolithic black Custom Hotel on Lincoln Boulevard, just a little over a mile from Los Angeles International Airport.

That’s where you’ll find Bistrotek, Chef Paul Arias’s bastion of nouvelle comfort food, and the Westside’s answer to more showy restaurants farther east.

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Inside the Palihouse Holloway

Where: 8465 Holloway Boulevard [map], Los Angeles, ca, United States, 90069

Yesterday, we gave you a sneak peek of the newly opened Palihouse Hotel in West Hollywood--a new twist on the extended-stay concept from hotelier Avi Brosh.

Now feast your eyes on this. This is a video tour of the corner suite on the 2nd floor, overlooking Santa Monica Boulevard and our favorite hangout spot, Barney's Beanery. But even if this room was mired in anti-views, we would still have lots to make us happy.

Check-out that kitchen! And the sitting area! And the bed! Don't forget the C.O. Bigelow bath products! Or the washer and dryer! (Ok, that bit you can't see as it's hidden.)

We know we sound overly excited about this place but since we see a lot of hotels for this gig, this is one of the few urban properties in recent memory that has made us giddy.

More visual treats after the jump.

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Welcome to the Palihouse Holloway

Where: 8465 Holloway Boulevard [map], West Hollywood, CA, United States, 90069

Click here to see upclose.

The other day we were able to tour the just-opened Palihouse West Hollywood, a new concept in extended-stay from hotelier Avi Brosh, the man behind the Custom Hotel.

We actually don't want to call this place an extended-stay hotel because it's just way too cool for that sort of corporate terminology.

Essentially, Brosh took all that he liked about independent boutique hotels (like the Mercer, the Bowery, THOR and UK's Firmdale hotels) and mashed them together with his own little twist. For instance, he's hand-picked every item in all the rooms and public spaces and he and his team custom-designed the furniture.

This here is the reception area which is tucked off to the side when one first enters the building. Already, you can see this place is very different from any other extended-stay brand.

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