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.
In 2005, Tamsin Lonsdale was preparing dinner for 20 at her family home in South Kensington, London—an auspicious beginning for The Supper Club, the cosmopolitan, salon-inspired side project she launched while juggling a jet-setting career as a fashion stylist for Italian Vogue.
Set on almost four acres at 17331 Tramonto Blvd., options include three- to five-bedroom townhomes and flats ranging from 2,778 to 4,986 square feet, with prices starting in the low $3 million range
While L.A.’s food truck movement is expansive, having grown beyond hipster cuisine, Prince Emanuele Filiberto took the opportunity to flavor it with regional recipes from his homeland.
Well-known cheese connoisseur and owner of Andrew’s Cheese Shop in Santa Monica, Steiner gained cheese expertise as Maitre d’ Fromage at L.A. institution Patina Restaurant and has opened a second location in the heart of downtown Manhattan Beach.
The Terranea Resort has been one of Southern California’s most beautiful and popular oceanfront resorts since opening in 2009 that has gone through a major upgrade of the guest amenities.
In 1976, a South Bay local named Harry Mills opened Captain Kidd’s with the goal of offering up the freshest seafood in town. The humble charm of the place remains too.
Amid the sensory overload of Grand Central Market, newcomer Sari Sari Store is stealing the show with authentic Filipino rice bowls, served simply for deep satisfaction.
Inside the Santa Monica promenade food hall, past the neon ice cream cone sign and hordes of hungry shoppers, a discreet passcode-protected door belies the welcoming restaurant within, Dialogue Restaurant.
Touted as the loftiest building west of the Mississippi River upon completion in 1926 (at 15 stories tall) and having the distinction of serving as the site of the first Academy Awards after-party in 1929, The Mayfair Hotel claims a rich history.
Rare in this city is the anticipated opening that does not come out of Hollywood. Nevertheless, the new NoMad Los Angeles hotel, which bowed last month on corner of 7th and Olive Street in Downtown, has a Hollywood story to tell. The hotel takes over the Giannini Building, which was originally built in the 1920s and the one-time headquarters of the Bank of Italy, which helped bankroll Walt Disney’s badly over budget Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Like that film, this one has all the makings of a classic: a building with much of its neoclassical character, veteran leadership at every level, the essence of its celebrated predecessor NoMad New York, and a sensitivity to the cultural, social and physical fabric of its local environ. How could it not be a hit?
If a home is an expression of oneself, then Monticello is Thomas Jefferson’s autobiography, revealing the essence of who he was, what he valued, and how he lived.
When Top Chef season 14 winner Brooke Williamson and her husband and partner Nick Roberts opened the four-in-one beachside restaurant complex Playa Provisions in Playa del Rey in 2014, the restaurateurs/chefs envisioned a day when each of the establishment’s concepts would emerge independently.
