Hotel Normandie LA

"The Renaissance-revival exterior of Hotel Normandie is the first sign that this hotel is from another era—the era known as 1926. The hotel underwent an extensive renovation in 2010, and the result was updated guest rooms and common areas, and the restoration of a lot of the original Spanish colonial details: the heavy wood beams, fireplaces, and patterned tiles. The in-house diner, Cassell, is rightly revered for its hamburgers, and Comptoir, the more formal of the hotel’s two restaurants, has an intimate dining room with only ten seats and is the genius of French Laundry alum Gary Menes (reservations are essential). After dinner, treat yourself to an after-dinner drink at the Normandie Club, a moody, dark cocktail den, or the Walker Inn, the hotel’s speakeasy-style lounge."

"Chef Gary Menes was serving a 10-course tasting menu to a small group of diners. The sixth course, typically a crescendo of meat on ambitious tasting menus like his, was, in fact, a 60-day aged Musquee de Provence — a slice of pan-seared pumpkin. Menes moved from plate to plate, shaving flutters of white mushroom over each serving. Not white truffles but a humble white mushroom. His intimate 10-person counter, aptly called Le Comptoir, was awarded One MICHELIN Star in the inaugural edition of The MICHELIN Guide to California 2019." - Mahira Rivers

"Famed Chendu, China chef Yu Bo is doing a series of ultra-luxury dinners at Hotel Normandie next month. The $500 affairs (or $430 without wine pairings) are a collaboration with chef Laurent Quenioux, and should include a variety of luxury ingredients spread across 19 different courses." - Farley Elliott

"Koreatown’s Hotel Normandie is hosting Dandi, a roving Korean-inspired pop-up, for two evenings this coming weekend. Dandi has previously appeared at this location." - Matthew Kang

"DFC Ghost Kitchen is located inside a small kitchen at the Hotel Normandie, just behind the neighborhood favorite, Cassell’s Hamburgers." - Mona Holmes