Journal
Notes from the people who run the hotel: the bar, the kitchen, the building and the neighborhood, written when there is something worth saying.
Why the house martini is stirred for forty secondsLong enough to chill it, short enough to keep its edge. The rest is the glass, kept in the freezer since noon.Read the story Earlier stories
The buildingPlanting eight floors of olive trees and rosemary
West HollywoodFour walks to take before breakfast
The kitchenWhat the kitchen buys at the Wednesday market
The BathsAn hour in the salt room, and how to spend it
The roomsAsk for the seventh floor
EventsHow a wedding on the pool terrace comes together
The rest, in person
Check-in from three, a martini from six and dinner under the olive trees until eleven.