The Trouble With Reviving Old Hollywood
After a $2.4 million renovation, the Formosa proves what we’ve long known: remakes are hard.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: 1933 Group
The Desert Lounge Where Old Hollywood Lives
Welcome to "About a Bar," a column that explores America's most notable bars and cocktail programs. This week, Leslie Pariseau hits Melvyn's, a one-time Rat Pack refuge and Hollywood haven…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Emily E. Wallace
A Drinking Tour of Old Hollywood
Visitors to LA often get sucked into celeb sighting along the Santa Monica boardwalk (read: dodging rollerbladers) and cruising around town in one of those convertible vans powered by StarMaps. Don't…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
Musso & Frank Grill
It doesn’t get more old school than this. Famous for its Martinis, steak and red-coated barmen full of Old Hollywood tales, a step into Musso & Frank’s is truly a…
- story: punch_intern2
Frolic Room
Tourists come to Hollywood expecting to find glamour and glitz, only to discover that Hollywood proper is actually pretty gritty. Celebrities live deep westside or up in the hills; Hollywood…
- story: punch_intern2
The Townhouse & The Del Monte Speakeasy
The Townhouse has been getting Venice residents drunk since 1915 (back when it was Menotti’s Grocery), making it the oldest bar in the neighborhood. During Prohibition, one could sneak downstairs…
- story: punch_intern2
El Cid
Built in 1905, El Cid was originally a movie theater before eventually becoming a prison-themed restaurant called The Jail Café, wherein the servers wore black and white striped prison uniforms.…
- story: punch_intern2
