Retro-groovy with a laid-back style, this combo bar/restaurant elegantly combines good jazz bands and big-band trios with a huge variety of awesome martinis and appetizers. Expensive, yes, but weekday happy hour from 5 to 7pm eases the sticker shock.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Los Angeles 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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