Los Angeles
United States • North America
15
curated places
Chateau Marmont
The hotel where the stories happen. Gothic revival castle on Sunset where discretion is the house religion and everyone looks famous.
Getty Center
Meier's white city above LA.
Gjelina
The restaurant that defined the Abbot Kinney aesthetic. Vegetable-forward California cooking in a space that feels like a very cool friend's very nice house.
Grand Central Market
LA's historic food hall since 1917. A beloved Downtown institution bridging old and new Los Angeles.
Maxfield
The dark lord of LA retail. Avant-garde fashion since 1969, with rare pieces and an intimidation factor built into the experience.
Bestia
Industrial Italian in an Arts District warehouse. House-made charcuterie, serious pasta, and the energy of a restaurant that knows it's the hottest ticket in town.
The Broad
Eli Broad's gift to LA: a contemporary art museum that's free and features Koons, Basquiat, and the Infinity Room everyone queues for.
The Getty Museum
Serene, scholarly, and effortlessly grand – equal parts art sanctuary and architectural marvel. White travertine pavilions perched on a Santa Monica Mountain ridge, with gardens by Robert Irwin and views that stretch from downtown L.A. to the Pacific.
$$Destroyer
Jordan Kahn's all-day cafe adjacent to Vespertine. Deceptively simple dishes with extraordinary technique.
$$$Felix Trattoria
Evan Funke's pasta temple where the mezzalune are folded with geometric precision. Watch the pasta makers through glass like they're performing surgery.
$Hammer Museum
UCLA's contemporary art museum with a reputation for challenging programming. Free admission, excellent courtyard cafe, and shows that matter.
$$$Mohawk General Store
Eastside curation that balances Japanese workwear, Scandinavian design, and California ease. The kind of store that defines its neighborhood.
$$LACMA
LA's encyclopedic art museum in the midst of a controversial Peter Zumthor transformation. The Urban Light sculpture is LA's most photographed art.
$$$Erewhon
The $20 smoothie grocery store. Wellness as luxury retail, where the clientele is as curated as the product.
$$$Fred Segal
The original California lifestyle store, reborn. What started on Melrose in 1961 has been updated for a new generation at Sunset.