Los Angeles / From the hills to the coast

Thursday 24 September
Architecture and terrace at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, photographed in October 2017The local edit

Los Angeles

One destination. A whole afternoon.

A hillside museum. A table with a story. An afternoon outdoors. Pick your part of Los Angeles and give it some time.

Getty Center

Less searching. More going.

Your day, your way.

Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.

The after-dark edit

LA has another side after dark.

Hollywood house music, warehouse parties and live rooms. Choose your destination, then work out the ride home.

Explore after dark

Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.

Follow your curiosity

A few ways to do Los Angeles.

All routes

On our radar

Places to build a day around.

Koreatown

Guelaguetza

Downtown & Bunker Hill

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

Brentwood

Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles

Out there, right now

Go somewhere good in LA today.

More for today
EventExhibitions

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.

Today · 11:00US$21
On the house
EventExhibitions

Hammer Projects: Gê Viana

Sound, moving image and memory meet at the Hammer. Gê Viana’s first institutional presentation in the United States is free to visit.

Today · 11:00Free
On the house
EventExhibitions

Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini

Plants, cables and the movement of electrical energy meet in a new installation at the Hammer Museum.

Today · 11:00Free

Close the tabs. Open the weekend.

Choose a corner of LA. Stay a while.

An art-filled morning, a market lunch or a garden pause. Keep the distances in mind and let one good destination anchor the day.

Make a weekend of it
EventExhibitions

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.

Sat 26 SeptUS$21

The food edit

The city tells its stories at the table.

Find your table
RestaurantMexican

Guelaguetza

Oaxacan cooking in Koreatown, with mole and tlayudas at the heart of the menu. A meal worth giving its own place in the day.

Mexican$$
RestaurantAmerican

Philippe The Original

French-dipped sandwiches on North Alameda Street. A straightforward food stop near Chinatown and El Pueblo.

American$
RestaurantAmerican

Langer’s Deli

A daytime deli stop at Seventh and Alvarado. Pastrami on rye is the reason to build a lunch around this Westlake address.

American$$
RestaurantAmerican

Musso & Frank Grill

An evening table on Hollywood Boulevard. A restaurant to plan around, with reservations and a different Sunday opening time.

American$$$

Art & culture

See Los Angeles through its art.

All exhibitions
EventExhibitions

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.

Today · 11:00US$21
On the house
EventExhibitions

Hammer Projects: Gê Viana

Sound, moving image and memory meet at the Hammer. Gê Viana’s first institutional presentation in the United States is free to visit.

Today · 11:00Free
On the house
EventExhibitions

Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini

Plants, cables and the movement of electrical energy meet in a new installation at the Hammer Museum.

Today · 11:00Free
Architecture and terrace at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, photographed in October 2017

Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.

Free admission. A full afternoon.

Museum collections, gardens and city views. Check reservations and transport costs, then make time to enjoy the visit.

Discover it for yourself

A city of little worlds

A new perspective on every hillside.

Every neighbourhood

Editor’s picks

LA plans with room to breathe.

All our guides
GuideCulture

Los Angeles, at your own pace

A hilltop, a museum terrace or a focused art visit. Three different ways to give a Los Angeles day some breathing room.

3 considered recommendations
GuideCulture

Downtown art and something to eat

Make an art visit the anchor, then choose a market lunch or a French-dipped sandwich. A flexible Downtown edit.

3 considered recommendations
GuideCulture

Los Angeles: art, then lunch

A Downtown museum, a Westlake deli and a Westwood alternative. Choose a neighbourhood plan instead of chasing the whole city.

3 considered recommendations
GuideCulture

Los Angeles: museums and a garden break

Free core science galleries, a garden in Exposition Park and a UCLA museum. Build around one part of the city instead of spending the day crossing it.

3 considered recommendations

A closer look

Look beyond the postcard.

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Free in Los Angeles: plan the whole visit

By The editorial desk