Los Angeles: The Wallpaper* Guide | Wallpaper*

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published 20 February 2025

Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Los Angeles - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel.

Los Angeles' hills and downtown streets are home to some of the world's most impressive architectural marvels. Roam the galleries of the Arts District, eat in some of West Hollywood's finest restaurants or stay in a design bolthole along PCH's glistening shoreline. Whatever it is that takes you to La La Land, follow the Wallpaper* edit of what to see and do.

Home is where Beethoven Market is – a joyful Italian restaurant in LA’s Mar Vista

In Mar Vista, a historic space is reborn as a modern-day gathering spot, an Italian-infused restaurant where rotisserie chicken, handmade pasta and tableside tiramisu welcome you like family

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For the breakfast lover that is not a morning person, this Hollywood café is for you

Start your day with a ceremonial strawberry matcha latte and freshly baked viennoiseries amid the glamour of Café Goldie at the W Hollywood

Tour the best contemporary tea houses around the world

Celebrate the world’s most unique tea houses, from Melbourne to Stockholm, with a new book by Wallpaper’s Léa Teuscher

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Art, architecture and travel in Los Angeles

Home is where Beethoven Market is – a joyful Italian restaurant in LA’s Mar Vista

Lois Samuels’ ceramics invite us to find beauty in imperfection

Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in July 2025

Caribbean cool meets mid-century glamour at this new LA hotspot

The owner of this restored Spanish Colonial home turned it into a gallery – with no social media allowed

This surreal new seafood restaurant in LA is the stuff of mermaid’s dreams

Is embracing nature the key to a more fire-resilient Los Angeles? These landscape architects think so

How Melrose Hill became LA’s hottest art district

The new Los Angeles restaurants to book now

A Laurel Canyon house shows off its midcentury architecture bones

For the breakfast lover that is not a morning person, this Hollywood café is for you

Beverly Hills’ latest hot ticket is a Chinese restaurant with a hidden speakeasy feel

Find bubbly, chewy, perfectly crusted pizza at Cosetta, LA’s new Westside Italian gem

Monastery’s botanical skincare is worshipped by many (including Sofia Coppola)

PlayLab opens its Los Angeles base, blending workspace, library and shop in a new interior

Fancy a matcha-beer cocktail? Visit this dashing new LA restaurant

Los Angeles businesses regroup after the 2025 fires

‘Fall Guy’ director David Leitch takes us inside his breathtaking Los Angeles home

The Lighthouse draws on Bauhaus principles to create a new-era workspace campus

With glowing honeycomb-shaped booths, this futuristic Japanese restaurant is ramen heaven

Tour the best contemporary tea houses around the world

At Linden Los Angeles, classic New York comfort food gets its due

Unlike the gloriously grotesque imagery in his films, Yorgos Lanthimos’ photographs are quietly beautiful

Alba Los Angeles is an Italian vacation disguised as a restaurant

Basic.Space launches its first IRL shopping event – in an empty West Hollywood mall

Heritage and conservation after the fires: what’s next for Los Angeles?

At Bar Etoile, Scandi-chic meets leisurely Los Angeles

Cowboys and Queens: Jane Hilton's celebration of culture on the fringes

Room for three and an inbuilt TV: this playful new bed reimagines intimacy

Buy a slice of California’s midcentury modern history with this 1955 Pasadena house