Saunter Los Angeles https://sauntermag.com/c-los-angeles/ Where to stay, eat and drink in Los Angeles. en-GB A Silver Lake church, once a horror-show set, is now Hotel Lucilehttps://sauntermag.com/a-hotel-lucile/https://sauntermag.com/a-hotel-lucile/#pin2Casetta 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. At San Damián, Enrique Olvera makes al pastor with kanpachihttps://sauntermag.com/a-san-damian/https://sauntermag.com/a-san-damian/#pin2The 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. At Lynx, Josh Skenes treats pizza like a serious kitchenhttps://sauntermag.com/a-lynx/https://sauntermag.com/a-lynx/#pin2The Saison chef and his bar director Brandyn Tepper won a Bib Gourmand two months into this Arts District bar, where the Sudachi daiquiri uses no lime. 48 Hours, Slowly: Los Angeleshttps://sauntermag.com/a-48-hours-los-angeles/https://sauntermag.com/a-48-hours-los-angeles/#pin2A first Los Angeles weekend built around three neighbourhoods and one drive a day: Silver Lake, the Arts District and Venice. 8 new Los Angeles hotels, from a Silver Lake church to the old Mondrianhttps://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-hotels/https://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-hotels/#pin2A Presbyterian church of 1931, the Sunset Strip landmark that Starck once remade, a Beverly Hills house behind the Peninsula and a Santa Monica beach… 15 new Los Angeles restaurants, from a Silver Lake nave to a Chinatown cornerhttps://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-restaurants/https://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-restaurants/#pin2From 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… 9 new Los Angeles bars, from a ship in Santa Monica Canyon to a South Pasadena classroomhttps://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-bars/https://sauntermag.com/l-la-best-new-bars/#pin2From 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… Los Angeles is learning to walk, one neighbourhood at a timehttps://sauntermag.com/op-los-angeles-built-for-walking/https://sauntermag.com/op-los-angeles-built-for-walking/#pin2Hotel 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. Los Angeles is better when serious chefs choose to move herehttps://sauntermag.com/op-los-angeles-chefs-from-elsewhere/https://sauntermag.com/op-los-angeles-chefs-from-elsewhere/#pin2Sean 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.