Discover the best of living the luxury lifestyle with spotlights on places from home décor and furniture stores to hotels and restaurants and city life in and around the South Bay & Westside areas and around the world.
Sweet Laurel: Cake, Coffee and Tea is owned by brand founder Lauren Gallucci, who turned to savory whole-foods baking after suffering an autoimmune disorder, and her creative partner, Kitchy Kitchen food blogger Claire Thomas.
More than 40 years ago, Manhattan Beach resident Debbie Walmer attended a seminar to brainstorm fund-raising ideas for the American Martyrs Parent Association. A lover of homes, she suggested a tour of some of the area’s standout properties.
Logistically, a high-quality, pre-fab greenhouse as the infrastructure of a restaurant set on the second level of a hotel—as cool as it sounds—seems problematic. The acoustics alone. But this is Los Angeles, nothing is impossible—not a conservatory in the sky, not a homegrown kid turned restaurant impresario.
Now California’s largest operator of new and used books, along with vinyl records, the Last Bookstore runs a brisk but selective buy-sell-trade business.
At the new westdrift Manhattan Beach, West Coast meets East Coast in a celebration of the South Bay beach city founded by a New Yorker from a borough of the same name.
Since opening in 2011, Jeffrey Faust and Woogene Lee’s intimate restaurant fundamental LA has emerged as a beloved Westwood institution thanks to its casual counter-service lunch, refined full-service dinner and eclectic wine selection. Now Faust and Lee have expanded their concept with fundamental DTLA, complete with the addition of breakfast service featuring a wide selection of pastries and baked goods crafted in-house, plus a bar that’s destined to become the area’s next go-to gathering spot.
Hi-Lo Liquor is a credit to its co-owners Chris Harris and Talmadge Lowe (founder of L.A.’s custom cocktail catering service Pharmacie).
A clever take on seafood izakaya and sushi has come to South Bay, with the owners of West L.A.’s popular Hamasaku restaurant opening Umi by Hamasaku in El Segundo this past October.
“Rolling Zone Creamery has brought people together around delicious ice cream,” says trained gourmet chef Juan José Da Silva, who opened the shop last July with partners Mishell Flood, and Liliana Barker. A new ice cream shop that allows customers to watch as their treats are mixed and prepared has rolled into town.
