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Elsewhere · MarseilleIn Le Panier, Marseille's oldest quarter, the walk runs from a Greek agora to a windmill hill
A hillside quarter of steps, street art and studios, on the site where Marseille began.
Elsewhere · ProcidaProcida is the Bay of Naples island that runs at walking pace
A tiny island in the Bay of Naples with a pastel fishing harbour, a walled hilltop and lemons in everything.
Opinion · LALos Angeles is learning to walk, one neighbourhood at a time
Hotel Lucile, a Silver Lake church without a car park, Lynx in the Arts District and San Damián in Venice make the case for walkable villages.
Opinion · LALos Angeles is better when serious chefs choose to move here
Sean Brock's Darling, Sushi Nakazawa on Robertson and Atlanta's Rumi's Kitchen show what a city built by arrivals gains, and where the claim stops.
Lists · LA8 new LA hotels, including a Silver Lake church and the old Mondrian
A Presbyterian church of 1931, the Sunset Strip landmark that Starck once remade, a Beverly Hills house behind the Peninsula and a Santa Monica beach hotel that used to be a Loews.
Lists · LA15 new Los Angeles restaurants, from a Silver Lake nave to a Chinatown corner
From Aitor Zabala's three-star counter on Nemo Street to Fátima Juárez's masa stall in Mercado La Paloma, by way of a former Pok Pok, a church nave and a Sean Brock listening lounge.
Lists · LALos Angeles's new bars include a ship, a classroom and a pizza bar
From Josh Skenes's pizza and cocktail bar in the Arts District to the bar Christopher Isherwood put into A Single Man, by way of a margarita bar with a centrifuge.
Spacca Tutto · Pacific Palisades · 15 October 2026Nancy Silverton opens a steakhouse in the Palisades, and the focaccia comes stuffed with cheese
Spacca Tutto, her first Westside restaurant, opened in Palisades Village on 15 October with Dal Rae-style picanha, a central bar and a patio on the green.
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · 23 September 2026Rumi's Kitchen brings Atlanta's Persian cooking to Tehrangeles
Chef Ali Mesghali, who first cooked in LA, opens at Westfield Century City with charcoal kabobs, duck fesenjoon and a rooftop pomegranate garden.
Sous Sous · Silver Lake · September 2026At Sous Sous, the stained-glass apostles watch you order a Sazerac
In the 1931 nave of Hotel Lucile, Patrick Costa pairs Marseille with New Orleans, from blackened-polenta trout to a green tomato margarita.
First Look · LAA Silver Lake church, once a horror-show set, is now Hotel Lucile
Casetta keeps the stained glass and the lit rooftop cross, puts the rooms in the old church school and sends a martini cart round the halls each evening.
Friendship Bar · Santa Monica Canyon · August 2026Friendship Bar is back in the ship-shaped building where Isherwood drank, with soul on Thursdays
Golden Bull bartender Daniel Baker revives Santa Monica Canyon's S.S. Friendship with lantern-lit booths, martinis and a new stage.
ANIMAL · Arts District · July 2026ANIMAL brings a Brooklyn queer bar to the Arts District, with an Airstream and a disco banana
In the old Resident beer garden, a frozen watermelon margarita, free house and disco, and a forest patio that is the point.
Palomino · Highland Park · July 2026Palomino gives Gold Line's overflow a disco ball and a seat
The Highland Park team behind the Stones Throw hi-fi bar open a moodier, easier sibling across Figueroa.
CineOpera · Arts District · July 2026CineOpera Puts a Maradona Sandwich and a 170-Inch Screen on an Arts District Roof
Muy Salsa's rooftop wine bar pairs Italian aperitivo with Latin cooking and a film every time the sun goes down.
Mish · La Brea · June 2026On La Brea, Mish carves its pastrami by hand and lets the records play to the end
Eric Greenspan's new-school deli sits under hangar-high beams south of Hancock Park, with honey-water bagels, a serious fish platter and a vinyl lounge upstairs.
First Look · LAAt San Damián, Enrique Olvera makes al pastor with kanpachi
The Pujol chef's mariscos restaurant takes the old Atla site on Abbot Kinney, with an uni-topped rockfish ceviche and a Sunday dinner that starts at three.
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · 26 May 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar at the door on Canon Drive
Quality Branded's maximalist Italian-American party moves into The Palm's old room, with a flambéed lobster, a raviolo on the steak and a tiramisu ice cream cake.
Brick Lane · Arts District · 22 May 2026Brick Lane serves a biryani under a naan lid in an Arts District warehouse that used to be Italian
Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani, cooks in a wood-fired tandoor on Sixth Street, with a bar built around jaggery, chyawanprash and cardamom.
Sushi Nakazawa · Beverly Hills · 13 May 2026The sushi counter that began with a Facebook message and Google Translate lands on Robertson
Daisuke Nakazawa, Jiro's apprentice, brings Edomae nigiri, bouncy tamago and a charcoal grill to a sea-cave of a room on the Beverly Hills border.
Jacaranda · Hancock Park · 6 May 2026Jacaranda is a ten-course dinner party in a lilac glass box, hosted by a chef and a former music editor
Daniel Patterson, of Coi, and Sarah Lewitinn, move their Hancock Park supper club to Melrose with soft tofu, stuffed morels and a plate called Fruit Anarchy.
Picala · West Adams · April 2026Picala is a Spanish hearth built by an archaeologist, with a free tapa for every early drink
Luis Sierra studied ancient fires before he cooked over one. Under the E Line on La Cienega he serves sardine escabeche, suckling pig and gin tonicas that reward lingering.
Hôtel Lili · Beverly Hills · April 2026Hôtel Lili is a 1939 Beverly Hills house with a velvet-curtained bar and no restaurant
Palisociety's Avi Brosh dresses a three-storey private residence behind The Peninsula in crimson drapery, stripes and wallpapered ceilings.
The Valorian · West Hollywood · April 2026The Mondrian is now The Valorian, and the 30-foot doors stay on the Sunset Strip
Hilton's Curio Collection takes over a Sunset Strip landmark with an Agam, Starck and Gerber past, an Alice in Wonderland rooftop and Casa Madera downstairs.