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Mondrian WeHo Encourages Retail Therapy This Holiday
Sky Bar, where post-shopping cocktails can be had, even in the dead of winter
That familiar seasonal tune may claim "it's the most wonderful time of the year," but when you're making lists, checking them twice, and trying to decide what's re-giftable, the holidays can seem less than cheery. Gift shopping can seem like an endless chore, and a very pricey one at that.
The Mondrian Los Angeles has put together a special holiday deal that gives gift givers an ever-so-slight discount on some of the city's chicest stores. Truthfully though, the package's appeal is more self-serving, targeting female travelers with a love of labels and luxury treatments. Through January 10th, ask for their Ultimate Shopping Package when you make a reservation by phone, and you'll get a deal including $100 of hotel credit, valet parking, and a card featuring special discounts at various L.A. boutiques. Some of the price cuts include 20% off of Barney's New York in Beverly Hills, 20% off of Madison and Diavolina on West Third Street, and a complimentary manicure, makeup application or signature treatment with any hair service at Frederic Fekkai.
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The Five Best Hotel Bars in Los Angeles
Butterflies on the ceiling of Bar Marmont
Cocktail culture is a different breed in Los Angeles. This is a town known for "doing lunch," after all. Aspiring screenwriters and actors usually work during the day and hit clubs late at night, and slick producers hustle deals both during afternoon meetings and after hours. Happy Hour just isn't as popular here as it is in other cities you might visit.
And what makes choosing a bar even more difficult in LA is the rate of trend turnaround; one week some place is the place to be, the next you wouldn't find a Twilight cast member caught dead there.
Recently, the erstwhile travel reporter Jen Leo tweeted @HotelChatter asking us what hotels in Los Angeles would be great for a happy hour. This inspired us to revisit some of the city's most well-known hotel bars to do libation reconnaissance. Below you'll find the results of our liquored social experiment. More after the jump...
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Torrance Gets a Sleek, Green Japanese 'Hybrid' Hotel
Los Angeles is just the kind of city that embraces cool cultural influences, particularly those from the far East—and we're not just talking about the multitude of sushi restaurants in greater LA County. We've seen contemporary tea houses, high end hot spring spas, and we just got news that a thoroughly Japanese hotel, The Miyako Hybrid, will soon be opening its doors to the public.
The Miyako line is apparently well-known in Japan for being ultra-modern and sleek, so its arrival in the City of Angels comes as no surprise. What's shocking is that you won't find it sharing block space in Beverly Hills or West Hollywood, but in Torrance of all places. We're scratching our heads right alongside you. That's not a dig against Torrance, but, quite honestly, it seems like the target audience of such a hotel is more accessible in the trendy heart of LA, not deep in the South Bay.
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Strike Two Against the Andaz West Hollywood
The perils of booking a room on Priceline are many, from the strategic "name your own price" tango to begrudgingly having to settle on whichever hotel you're offered. In the past, we've lucked out, having landed a great value on Paris' Le Meridien Etoile, and likewise for what ended up being a nice stay at The Intercontinental in Century City. Sadly, the tale we're about to tell you doesn't have the happiest of endings.
A trusted HotelChatter source and frequent traveler to Los Angeles has long been using Priceline to book her accommodations in the city, West Hollywood being her neighborhood of choice for convenience's sake. Not long ago, both she and her husband related an upsetting service-related story about their stay at the Andaz West Hollywood, where an attempt to order room service ended in telephone bickering with a curt phone concierge.
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Food Frenzy At Los Angeles Hotels This Month
Foodies in Los Angeles are all abuzz lately about some big turnover in hotel restaurants around town—both on the menu and in the kitchen. Plus, now that there’s an end in sight to beach weather, it’s time to put the bikini away and start thinking about packing on the pounds for winter. Here are four of the stories and specials we’ve been following lately.
Last week, we stopped in for a dinner at the new restaurant in Beverly Hills’ Avalon Hotel, oliverio. To complement the 1960’s Italian-style redecoration (pictured above), new chef Mirko Paderno (formerly of Cecconi’s in West Hollywood), has created an Italian-inspired menu that is equal parts familiar and fanciful, with dishes like an octopus carpaccio with wild arugula, lemon and olive oil ($14); a panna cotta-like cauliflower soufflé with parmigiano sauce ($11); truffled pizza with spongy potato-based dough ($16); al dente tortelli stuffed with braised lamb in a light tomato-olive sauce ($17); and an enormous breaded veal chop with roasted potatoes ($34).
Believe it or not, even with pairings from the manageable and affordable Italian wine list, we still had room for desserts like semifreddo with cranberries and pistachio, and a citrus budino with bruléed lemon crème.
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Celebrate Halloween Where 'Ghostbusters' Was Filmed
'Tis the season for a parade of hotel parties. Holiday dinners in the hundred dollar range are just around the corner, but it's Halloween that precedes the hanging of tinsel from marble-tiled lobbies. Most of the upcoming events we've heard of are the standard ballroom/costume/D.J. affairs that attract crowds of 20-somethings. Raucous fun, maybe, but they also tend to bring out scenesters in droves, which leaves those looking to celebrate over classy cocktails in a lurch.
Enter L.A.'s Millennium Biltmore, who is hosting an "All Hallow's Eve" party at their Gallery Bar on October 31st from 4:00 PM to 2:00 AM, and forgoing "sexy nurse" overtures in favor of a vintage vibe. The Millennium may not have haunted hotel room lore like that of The Roosevelt, but it did serve as one of the filming locations for Ghostbusters, if that means anything to you.
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What's On The Block at the Standard Downtown LA?
We continue our What's On The Block: Los Angeles Edition by heading downtown.
So far this week, we’ve taken you to Santa Monica, the Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills, so we thought we’d end our Los Angeles What’s On The Block series with one of our downtown haunts, The Standard.
Sure, there are newer hotels in the area, but we keep coming back to this Andre Balazs property thanks, in no small part, to its central location in the heart of the downtown. At least, the part of downtown that doesn’t get too scary after dark.
Let’s start right behind the hotel at the LA Public Library and Park. The Central Library, which opened in 1926, is a bona fide Los Angeles landmark. Learn more about the architecture and notable art works of the building on a Docent Tour (our favorites are the scary fairy tale sculptures in the children’s court). Try not to get hit by a skateboarder as you cross the little park for a luxe lunch on the patio at Café Pinot.
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The Overhaul of the Hotel Bel-Air Begins Today
The iconic 63-year-old Hotel Bel-Air closes today for a massive multimillion-dollar renovation that'll take two years to complete.
Burrowed among the canyons in L.A., the hotel's hosted a slew of stars, from Grace Kelly, Jackie Gleason, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to Oprah, Robin Williams, Hillary Swank and Nicole Kidman. Despite its star-packed clientele, the hotel was in desperate need of an Extreme Makeover: Hotel Edition.
To keep its luxury cred, the hotel will renovate its 91 rooms and suites, Champagne Bar, restaurant and private dining rooms. The Hotel Bel-Air also will add 12 villas on it 12-acre grounds and a new spa with seven treatment rooms and three junior spa suites. General manager Tim Lee told the L.A. Times that technology needs to be updated, as 99 percent of guests can't use their cell phones at the hotel. And we won't even get into those caveman-like big-box TVs in the rooms.
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The Chateau's Bar Marmont Introduces 'Cozy Fall Dishes'
The Chateau Marmont is known more for celebrity sightings and backdoor deal brokering than as a culinary destination, but as fall finally descends on Los Angeles, we found ourselves yearning for the scent of wood smoke (non-wildfire-related, of course!), a nip in the air, and some hearty dishes—even if it is still in the 80’s during the daytime. Luckily, the Chateau’s down-market stepsister just down the driveway, Bar Marmont, is serving up a new fall menu of just what we’re craving.
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Superficial Love Sells (Magazines): Khloe and Lamar Outside the SLS Hotel
We believe in love at first sight. We also believe in when you know, you know. But do we believe in happily ever after? Well, not necessarily. And our doubts about fairy tale endings plummet when we hear of couples tying the knot after a month of dating.
To be fair, we have a very dear friend who married her husband after just two weeks of dating and a year and a half later, they are still together. But they didn't get a $300,000 advance for photos of their wedding (taken at a Las Vegas wedding chapel) and they didn't film the entire extravaganza for a reality show.
No, that's all Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom, the reality show sister and the Laker player who got married yesterday after just four short weeks of courtship.
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Who Will Be Marriott's Neighbor at LA Live: Schrager or Rock Stars?
Curbed LA has some great scoop today on the potential hotel that may open up across from the JW Marriott at LA Live (and also attached, a Ritz-Carlton).
Latest rumor about that mystery AEG-funded hotel--planned for right across the street from LA Live--comes courtesy of Karen Englund, director of sales and marketing for Marriott at LA Live: She tells us that the new hotel will likely either be a Hard Rock (as noted before) or an Ian Schrager hotel.
Now we, like Curbed, read the words Ian Schrager and we immediately thought of Edition Hotels. But we have to remember that Ian still can open up his own independent hotel a la Gramercy Park. But we bet Marriott would much rather an Edition Hotel than a competitor like Hard Rock.
We say? While we would love an Edition to open up in our backyard, a JW Marriott and a Ritz-Carlton might be too many luxury hotel rooms. Besides LA Live fits the Hard Rock brand better. Just our two cents. What do you think?
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Celebs Descend on The Four Seasons for The Emmy Awards and Swag
To call the Four Seasons Beverly Hills a celebrity sighting hotspot is one of those, "Yeah, duh," self-evident statements that even non-Angelenos are aware of. But with the Emmy awards this Sunday, we thought it was worth highlighting this B.H. institution, as it's inevitably reaching a peak of Primetime star check-in as we type this.
Tonight, according to BizBash, The Four Seasons will play home yet again to HBO's "Luxury Lounge" swag suite, where Emmy attendees and other invited guests (tip: don't try crashing this party) will take home a slew of fancy gifts including Bulgari skin care products, or "receive private treatments by appointment."
Expected guests include Emmy Award winner Tina Fey and Entourage's Adrian Grenier. Other area hotels that already have, or will, host Emmy-related parties or hospitality lounges include The Mondrian and the Sunset Marquis.
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