![]() Room service: Worth it? Room service isn’t an option here. Any of that find its way into your suitcase? I had my eye on the cool assemblage by the minibar: an ice bucket made from a vintage ceramic dairy crock, Thunderbird Real Food bars, and (Venice Beach fave) Moon Juice “Spirit Dust.” I would definitely make off with one of the Woolrich blankets. How about the little things, like mini bar, or shower goodies. What redeems them completely is the style: custom cast-iron beds, Woolrich blankets, trendy brass light and sink fixtures, parquet flooring with kilim rugs, and beadboard walls in a frontier-chic palette of slate-grey, white, wood, and brass-all designed by Brooklyn-based Studio Tack. ![]() The 49 rooms-most with double queens, a few with single kings or queens-are modest and the walls thin (request a room at the end of the hallway: 204, 208, 212). What’s the crowd like? A global-nomad type crowd: young, hip, and in no rush to be anywhere. Half of the rooms, including the excellent restaurant, Glorietta, are located in a second building. But the lobby, with a roaring cast-iron fireplace, wooden tables and benches for reading or coffee drinking, and a “mercantile” lined with beautiful (and deceptively expensive) sweaters, moccasins, and blankets-feels a bit like a Western movie-set (that you’d want to live in). How did it strike you on arrival? From the outside, the main building-a renovated mid-century motel built on the foundations of a former blacksmith shop, painted a dark, inky green-looks slightly ominous.
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