Start from 129 curated places around Los Angeles, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Providence
Michael Cimarusti's three-Michelin-starred Hollywood seafood room — twenty years of tasting menus built on American sustainable seafood, exceptional service, and a quiet polish that doesn't preen. The most refined dinner in LA, and it knows it.
Bestia
Arts District trattoria from Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis — wood-fired pizza, daily handmade pasta, charcuterie made in-house, and a wine list that doesn't blink at natural picks. The reservation that hasn't gotten easier in over a decade.
Trails & outdoors
Griffith Park
The 4,300-acre urban park that contains the observatory, the LA Zoo, the Greek Theatre, and 53 miles of marked trails — including the most popular route up to the Hollywood Sign. Larger than Central Park and far rougher around the edges.
Runyon Canyon Park
The 130-acre Hollywood Hills park that locals call the city's stairmaster — dogs off-leash, three loops with increasing difficulty, the photographed sunset overlook (Inspiration Point) at the top. The most famous celebrity-spotting hike in LA.
Things to do
The Getty Center
Richard Meier-designed hilltop museum complex above the 405 — a tram ride up, panoramic LA views, free admission to one of the country's strongest collections of European paintings. The architecture and gardens make it as much a site as a museum.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA on Wilshire — Urban Light installation out front (the photographed lamppost forest), Renaissance through contemporary collections, and the new Peter Zumthor David Geffen Galleries that opened in 2026. The largest art museum in the western US.
Landmarks & sights
Griffith Observatory
The free 1935 Art Deco observatory on Mount Hollywood — telescopes you can actually look through, a planetarium with live narration, and the LA view that defines the city in every movie. No admission charge, just timed parking pressure.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Frank Gehry's 2003 stainless-steel sculpture downtown that doubles as the LA Philharmonic's home — exterior worth walking around, gardens on the second level that locals use as a lunch spot, free self-guided audio tours of the building's public spaces.