Hotel Lucile
Casetta turns a 1931 church into a small hotel.
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Sous Sous · Opened September 2026At Sous Sous, the stained-glass apostles watch you order a SazeracIn the 1931 nave of Hotel Lucile, Patrick Costa pairs Marseille with New Orleans, from blackened-polenta trout to a green tomato margarita.
Bar di Bello · Opened March 2026Bar di Bello: a Milanese party room behind velvet curtains on Sunset BoulevardAlex Wilmot and partners bring Bar Basso-style Negronis, red travertine and Italo disco to a Silver Lake strip mall.Also in September 2026
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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.
Stay · Downtown · September 2026Hotel Clark
A 1914 Beaux-Arts building, without paying guests for more than 30 years, reopens as a hotel.
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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.
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.