At what’s known by everyone as Tower Bar, glamour is less a trend than tradition. Set within the storied Sunset Tower Hotel, the Art Deco landmark that opened in 1931 as Hollywood’s most prestigious residential address, the bar inherited its aura from the stars and power brokers who once lived upstairs—Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor—and refined it over decades through discretion, design, and social choreography. Tower Bar’s low-lit, wood-paneled interior, which occupies Bugsy Siegel’s onetime apartment, feels insulated from time and spectacle, while a policy of privacy (please, do put down your phone) and carefully curated seating has long ensured that A-listers and society figures can see and be seen without being surveilled. Less about flash than fluency in old-world manners, Tower Bar endures because it offers Los Angeles something increasingly rare: a room where history, influence, and impeccable taste convene. The Tower Burger never goes out of style; served with an ice-cold martini, it’s as timeless as a tux.
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