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SLS Hotel At Beverly Hills Is Giving Away Rooms For $1 To Lucky Clickers
...It's just saving you more money to spend on Rodeo Drive. Have you always wanted to stay in Beverly Hills? How about a hotel with a Phillipe Starck-designed interior, including a floating bed? Well, our "Best Hotel Opening 2008" winner, the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills might make both those dreams come true, and for only $1.
The swank hotel, whose rooms begin around $270 per night, is keen to celebrate it's one-year anniversary with a blowout giveaway deal. For a lucky person who visits their Anniversary website, the SLS Hotel will randomly award two $1 Saturday night stays per week until November 30. Here's how to try and win...
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So Long Sahara? SLS Hotels Encounter Some Turbulence
It seems like only yesterday that a nightclub operator and hotelier practically meant the same thing but thanks to the rough economy, it's become very clear to Sam Nazarian that a hotelier has far bigger troubles than a nightclub owner.
The Wall Street Journal took a look behind the scenes at Nazarian's SBE Entertainment company which counts several nightclubs frequented by the brainless cast members of "The Hills," restaurants prominently featured in the background of paparazzi shots, and of course, the SLS Hotels which include The SLS Los Angeles, The Sahara in Las Vegas and the old Ritz Plaza in Miami Beach.
While the SLS Hotel in LA has been generally well-received, especially thanks to its Bazaar restaurant manned by superstar chef Jose Andres, the other two properties are languishing in debt and construction nightmare. And SBE is suffering for it:
In the past 18 months, Mr. Nazarian has cut much of his development team, including architects and designers, and outsourced legal counsel and other services—downsizing his corporate staff nearly in half to around 55 people.
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SLS Miami Is Set for 2011, So They Say
Hollywood club impresario and frequent "Hills" guest star Brent Bolthouse may have parted ways with Sam Nazarian and his SBE nightlife company--which also oversees the SLS Hotels. But plans for the hotel's expansion are still on. Sorta.
A year ago, we questioned what was happening with this hotel and there really wasn't much going on. But in the release we received about the departure of Bolthouse we noticed a very interesting tidbit at the end:
Also in the SBE Hotel collection are Miami’s Ritz Plaza hotel, to debut in early 2011, and Las Vegas’ Sahara Hotel & Casino, which will undergo a complete redevelopment for completion in early 2012.
2011? That's only about a year and a half away. A tipster told us in March that signs at the construction site said late 2010 and according to this photo on Flickr, taken in July, the inside is gutted but the skeleton of the building remains. In other words, there hasn't been much progress.
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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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SLS Kicks Off Their Summer Listening Series
Pardon the grainy camera phone photo but we can assure that is up and coming musician Ryan Star performing at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles as the first artist in their new Summer Listening Series. Ah see that there? Summer Listening Series. S-L-S. Clever, no?
The outdoor event, held on the hotel's Garden Terrace, featured an intimate acoustic set from Starr--literally it was just him, an amp, a mike and his guitar. Guests watched the set from the pew-like seating in the center and from cocktail tables scattered on the sides and at the back of the terrace. Drinks and complimentary treats from Jose Andres' Bazaar restaurant were served and goodies like peanut butter pretzels, fluffy cotton candy, gourmet potato chips were for also for sale. (SLS baseball hat, anyone?)
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NYT Deems the SLS at Beverly Hills a 'Wonderful Throwback'
Our 2008 Hotel Opening of the Year — the SLS at Beverly Hills — recently got paid a visit by the New York Times, so we had to compare notes. The Gray Lady’s verdict? All that SLS decadence seems to have been a comforting throwback to the beleaguered NYT, who describes the place as a welcome reminder of a “gilded age when hotel minibars swelled with Champagne and hotel bathrooms featured $85 bottles of lotion.”
Writer Fred Bernstein awards due props to designer Philippe Starck, saying the hotel is “beautiful and innovative,” adding “it’s amazing that Mr. Starck has so many ideas left in him.”
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SLS Hotel's Superstar Bazaar Restaurant Now Serving Brunch
Despite whatever we may have thought about the recent gushing review of the SLS Hotel restaurant, Bazaar, from LA Times food critic S. Irene Verbilia, we are extremely happy to hear that the restaurant is serving the meal most important to Angelenos, after the Hollywood power lunch--brunch.
Tasting Table, a new foodie e-newsletter, lets us know that starting this Saturday, chef Jose Andres will unveil his brunch menu from 11am to 3pm.
On the menu are your favorite brunchy cocktails along with sangria and Irish coffee, eggs benedict with Iberico ham, 12 quail eggs sunny-side up, and bagel and lox. There's a tasting menu for $40 that's available but sorry, no french toast or waffles.
[Photo: Eater LA]
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Lionel Richie Goes 'All Night Long' at The SLS Hotel
Our veteran Starwood watcher Andrew Calvo tipped us off to this awesomely bad video featuring Lionel Richie and his new song, Just Go, which was filmed entirely at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles.
Let this video serve as a default video tour for the hotel (especially since they wouldn't let us film anything when we toured the place). You mostly see Lionel making hand gestures around the rooftop pool area but you also get a glimpse of what it's like to arrive at the hotel, kick it by the pool, dine and drink at the Bazaar but sadly, there are no shots of the guest rooms.
Also making a shout-out is Akon, which truthfully excites us more than the appearance of Lionel. Sorry, Nicole Richie, but it's true.
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Chris Brown Is Not The SLS Hotel's Ideal Celebrity Guest
When we toured the SLS Hotel a few months ago, we thought that hands-down this would become the hotel for celebrities to be seen and in fact, much of the hotel's suites and conference rooms were created with press junkets and celebrity events in mind. Yet having Chris Brown dine there last night probably wasn't in the hotel's celebrity outreach program.
Rihanna's boyfriend and abuser regrouped from his day in court (where he was charged with two felonies) by having dinner at the SLS Hotel on La Cienega.
TMZ, ever alert for celebrity abusive boyfriends, caught Brown leaving the hotel at 3:45am. Brown reportedly spent most of the evening at the hotel bar with bodyguards. Despite the hour, sources said Brown was not boozing it up.
Sources close to the situation tell TMZ Chris was strictly there for a dinner business meeting with a man who works in the music industry.
We've also learned from multiple sources that Chris was neither served nor seen consuming an alcoholic beverage at any point in the evening.
Actually, we could care less if Brown was boozing. His career is over no matter what. No amount of alcohol abstinence can take back what he did to his girlfriend. And speaking of Rihanna, her relationship with Brown is sadly not over. The two were also reported to be hanging out at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire. Sigh.
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The Bazaar at SLS Gets Bizarre Four-Star Review
The L.A. Times' recent review of José Andrés’s Bazaar at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills gave it a rare four-star rating which has had the LA foodie community buzzing since last week.
The Times’s chief restaurant critic, S. Irene Virbila, is known to be hard to please, and she subjects each restaurant she reviews to a thorough vetting process--at Bazaar alone she clocked up four dinners! But it looks like she might have a little food crush on Andrés, who trained with the famous Ferran Adrià of El Bulli, exulting in his ability to transform “small plates into delicious theater.”
She goes on to gush that dining at the Bazaar is “Fellini-esque, a gastronomical circus, a flirtation with the flavors and soul of Spain.”
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Best Hotel Opening :: SLS at Beverly Hills
We know: you thought we were gonna with the Thompson LES as the best hotel opening of 2008, weren't you? Not this time — we've given the LES lots of the love and attention (and fair criticism) it deserves, but in awarding this particular honor we looked West to SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills.
Last year, if you'll recall, we bestowed the honor of Best Opening upon NYLO Plano, for whom we had very little criticism after a rather enjoyable overnight stay fairly soon after the property opened. Our choice of SLS for the best hotel opening may be a little bit surprising considering we've heaped a fair bit of criticism their way, but we praise SLS for what it is for what it has done for LA: injected a kickass hip new life into the getting-stale-quickly LA hotel scene, littered with copycat boutiques, big box hotels and old-ass luxury hotels in Beverly Hills.
When we went into the SLS on a pre-opening tour, we loved what we saw: there were three separate common areas (and guests-only hangouts — see ya later, scenester celebutards). And we liked what we saw in the guest room — something different:
Inside the guest rooms, prepare to have your vision of the traditional hotel room turned on its head. If you like predictability in your hotel rooms, then you should not stay here. The focus of the room is the bed. Apparently, [Phillipe] Starck wanted to create a sort of floating hotel bed. Thus the bed sits in a clear, but sturdy frame with two shelves jutting out from each side where a Macally Tune Pro iPod dock/alarm clock sits on one and a pen and pad sit on the other.
The desk is located behind the bed and all that is in front of you is a 40" Sony plasma TV placed within a floor-to-ceiling black light box. It's crazy.
Sexy, except for the low-ceilings. Let's hope the entrance of an unusual hotel like SLS happens in major markets beyond just LA to stir things up all over the hotel world in '09.
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SLS Hotel is Perfect for an Out-of-Body Staycation
A giant serving tray at Bazaar.
NY Times The Moment's design blogger (and MOCA curator) Brooke Hodge hit up the new SLS Hotel and has declared the hotel "perfect for my next staycation." Hodge talks about the Philippe Starck-inspired decor present throughout the hotel (like the lucite stag head) and the bizarre world of Bazaar. A staycation here would certainly transport you to another world.
But we were excited to finally see a picture of a guestroom. It's not a great shot but it give you guys a clearer picture of what the rooms look like. (Remember, SLS has told us we could not take pictures during our tour.)
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