Raffles L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
9291 Burton Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Peninsula Beverly Hills is a luxury hotel where you may enjoy your time with a high class Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Companion Amy Taylor.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills offers the perfect, luxurious oasis, set in one of the most prestigious areas of Los Angeles, in the heart of Beverly Hills. Located at the intersection of Wilshire and South Santa Monica Boulevards, the hotel is within easy walking distance of the financial and shopping areas of Century City and Beverly Hills, including the famous Rodeo Drive, and only 20 minutes from Los Angeles International Airport. The refined air begins the moment you enter the marbled lobby and continues through the gardenlike grounds. Special features in the large, lavish, European-styled guest rooms include controls for everything — lighting, climate, DO NOT DISTURB sign — beside the luxurious Frette-made bed, an extra-large work desk, an oversize marble bathroom with soaking tub and separate shower, and round-the-clock personal valets; the 16 private villa suites, ensconced within lush gardens, also boast gas fireplaces, kitchens, CD players, and individual security systems.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills
9882 South Santa Monica Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: 310-551-2888

The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa
This Spanish-Mediterranean beauty sits on 23 spectacularly landscaped acres that seem a world apart from L.A., though Downtown is only 20 minutes away. Each oversize guest room is dressed in conservatively elegant Ritz-Carlton style, softened by English garden textiles and a beautiful palette of celadon, cream, and butter yellow. Luxuries include beds dressed in Frette linens, marble bathrooms, thick carpets, and terry robes. You might consider a Club Level room, which also features featherbeds, down comforters, CD players, morning coffee delivered with your wake-up call, and access to the club lounge with dedicated concierge and complimentary gourmet spreads all day (including breakfast).

The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa
1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue Pasadena
California 91106
Phone: 626-568-3900

Mondrian Los Angeles
By uniting a love of nature, the outdoors, and casual living with a profound sense of glamour and fantasy, Mondrian captures the quintessential California lifestyle. Mondrian’s lobby is an inspired and surreal stage set with diaphanous curtains, glowing glass walls, eclectic furnishings, and a stunning Indoor/Outdoor Lobby that seems to magically transport the indoors out and the outdoors in. With its Philippe Starck design, acclaimed Asia de Cuba restaurant, the red-hot Skybar, and its fabled Sunset Boulevard address, Mondrian is a sophisticated, modern urban resort that totally reinvents the hotel experience.

Mondrian Los Angeles
8440 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood California 90069
Phone: 323-650-8999

Grace
I’m going to start an argument here by stating that Grace is the best restaurant in Los Angeles. I frequently dine here and everything is flawless: the service, the cuisine, the wine, the decor — even the patrons were well dressed, well behaved, and unpretentious (a rarity in this town). High ceilings, well-spaced tables, and soothing earth tones of orange, green, brown, and rose evoke a relaxed atmosphere at Grace, which is fortuitous because you’ll want to slowly savor each dish created by Executive Chef and co-owner Neal Fraser, a culinary scion of Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, and Joachim Splichal and Iron Chef veteran. Yes, it’s expensive, but if you’re going to splurge on a meal in L.A., Grace is where I’d go.

Grace
7360 Beverly Blvd N. Fuller Ave
Hollywood, CA 90036
Phone: 323-934-4400
www.gracerestaurant.net