Blue Velvet

The view tells us it's L.A., but this designer's wet dream feels like Miami, under an army of palms and glass walls, plus pool. Hot crowd descends on this barrio's lost Holiday Inn for food that borrows everyone's best: sweet potato ravioli, Mediterranean flatbread pizzas, Thai shrimp toasts, braised short ribs, and cocktails that will have you joining conversations about the area's gentrification with a giant 'aw, fuck it.' It's that good. Divine squab crepinette.