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

Miracle Mile

Jazz at LACMA: Judy Wexler

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
On the house
EventConcerts

Jazz at LACMA: Judy Wexler

A free Friday evening with jazz vocalist Judy Wexler at LACMA’s Smidt Welcome Plaza.

Fri 25 SeptFree

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.

More stories

Culture

Free in Los Angeles: plan the whole visit

By The editorial desk