Hollywood’s Trending Hotels and Hangouts Feature Eclectic Themes, Modern Fare
variety.comKathy A. McDonald Hollywood is back. Again. Like a screen siren with a second, third and now a 21st-century act, there’s an ongoing resurgence underway.
Roam once-overlooked side streets between Hollywood and Sunset boulevards to see the result of a major infusion of investment nearing $1 billion in hotels, restaurants, rooftop buildouts and splashy event spaces.Mother Wolf, Grandmaster Recorders, and the Thompson and Tommie Hollywood Hotels, with their rooftop hot spots Bar Lis and Desert 5, respectively, Wes Avila’s Ka’Teen, Superba Food + Bread Hollywood and the 221-room Godfrey Hotel have boosted mid-Hollywood’s street life and attracted a glittery crowd to a neighborhood that’s clearly in transition.
Although Hollywood exemplifies L.A.’s harsh urban realities and its dystopian undercurrents, the historic enclave pulsates with nightlife.
Since 2015, Netflix has bolstered its fortunes via an estimated 1 million square feet of leased office and studio space. There are even more upmarket residential and mixed-use developments to come such as the under-construction, twin, 32-story, 731-residential unit Palladium Residences (behind the Hollywood Palladium).“It’s meant to be a transportative space,” says chef Evan Funke of the restaurant-of-the-moment Mother Wolf (1845 Wilcox Ave.) housed in the Art Deco former Citizen News Building, which was built in 1931.
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