Eat dinner at the clubby Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel, where every night is as celebrity-studded as a red-carpet premiere. The food—upscale classics such as steak tartare and lobster Cobb salad—is good, too (sunsettowerhotel.com).
Shop Fred Segal on Melrose, the epicenter of L.A. cool, for such eclectic essentials as French lingerie and Japanese jeans. Finish your spree with a cappuccino on the café terrace, next to power producers deep in meetings or starlets lunching with their teacup Chihuahuas (fredsegal.com).
Visit Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, where you might catch a hot author signing books or a movie star quietly paging through a new release among the stacks of 60,000 titles (www.booksoup.com).
Drink a martini at the counter of Musso & Frank Grill, a favorite Hollywood eatery since its founding in 1919, and watering hole for such legendary writers as Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. You’ll feel as if you stepped into “L.A. Confidential” (6667 Hollywood Boulevard).
