The Restaurant at Palihotel Melrose

"The experience: Many Palihotel guests are designers, models, and other young business travelers looking for a reasonably priced crash pad not far from Hollywood or Beverly Hills (both a short drive away), which makes for a pleasant round-the-clock buzz in the lobby and the wildly popular Hart and the Hunter restaurant"

"With a Southern-inflected restaurant, the Hart & the Hunter, that serves from breakfast to dinner and a private room for Thai massage, you may never want to leave"

"An honest-to-goodness boutique hotel, the intimate, 32-room Palihotel is located quite conveniently amidst the Melrose retail and restaurant mayhem - meaning it might be the only hotel in LA which doesn't require interaction with the valet every time you walk out the front door"

"The Hart and the Hunter restaurant—decked out with vintage tiles and a portrait of T"

"’s best new restaurants when it opened last year, and it shows no sign of slowing; expect a wait any night at prime time for dinner"

"A grungy Melrose Avenue youth hostel reborn as a 32-room hipster hot spot, complete with a too-cool-for-reservations restaurant run by a tattooed chef (serving highfalutin comfort food, natch) and a spa dedicated solely to Thai massage"

"Onsite Thai massage, Dean and Deluca-stocked minibars, and Southern comfort food at The Hart and The Hunter restaurant are cool perks, but the location smack in the middle of the Melrose Avenue shopping district is the selling point"

"A nice perk: This part of Melrose is very walkable, so you’re in easy striking distance of great shopping and restaurants"

"There's an excellent Southern restaurant open to the public, which is a lovely place to chill with a coffee and laptop"