Beverly Hills Hotel, Petersen Automotive Museum & Real Food Daily

Nothing is more iconic of Beverly Hills than the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Blvd. A green oasis of calm but yet near the center of all the action, The Beverly Hills Hotel really rolls out the red carpet for all of her guests making even the most camera shy feel like an Oscar winning star.

The famous green palm leaf wall paper still adorns the walls of this pink palace and the rooms have been tastefully upgraded since under the ownership of the Dorchester Group. Some rooms and suites have gas fireplaces, giant screen TVs and comfortable resort furnishings. The Polo Lounge is still the magnet for movers and shakers to drink, have lunch or a late dinner.

Of course shopping in Beverly Hills is always a good way to spend some time and dollars from Neiman Marcus to Harry Winston. Quality reins and one of a kind discoveries is more the norm than the exception.

On the Miracle Mile, where the world's first drive to shopping center was built years ago, today is home of the Petersen Automotive Museum. .
6060 Wilshire Blvd (at Fairfax)

The Petersen Automotive Museum is dedicated to the exploration and presentation of the automobile and its impact on American life and culture using Los Angeles as the prime example. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Covering four floors, the facility features permanent exhibits on the first floor that trace the history of the automobile. Visitors are invited to walk through, not by, exhibits and dioramas and experience settings of early Los Angeles where the worlds first shopping district was designed.

The second floor presents five rotating galleries with state-of-the-art displays of race cars, classic cars, vintage motorcycles, concept cars, celebrity and movie cars, and auto design and technology.

Real Food Daily is the premiere organic vegan restaurant in California. With two locations in Los Angeles, 414 N. La Cienega Boulevard as well as 514 Santa Monica Blvd. RFD serves balanced meals made fresh with organic ingredients. RFD attracts the someday to the everyday vegetarian, celebrities, trend setting young eaters with sophisticated palates and the mature diner seeking gourmet health supportive cuisine.

Ann Gentry has spent the past twenty-five years striving to raise the standard of vegetarian and vegan cooking. By combining the balanced approach to macrobiotic food preparation with the ambience and richness of her Southern upbringing, she founded and continues to run Real Food Daily — the only restaurants in the Los Angeles area that serve a 100 percent vegetarian (vegan) menu using foods grown exclusively with organic farming methods.

No mater where you stay, shop, learn or eat in Los Angeles, you never know who you'll see from the silver screen to the limousine. For more visit www.aroundtheworldradio.com

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