Best LA Old Hollywood Bars & Restaurants

This is a guide to the surviving golden-age bars and restaurants of Los Angeles, for locals and visiting film fans who want red leather booths and a martini with their history. It ranges from Hollywood Boulevard and West Hollywood to Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, Beverly Boulevard and Burbank. Musso & Frank Grill, open since 1919, is where red-jacketed bartenders make what many call LA's best martini. Formosa Cafe has a 1904 trolley car built into its dining room, beneath walls of vintage headshots. The Dresden in Los Feliz, famous from Swingers, is a time capsule of padded walls and a stone-trimmed bar; order the Blood and Sand. Across from Warner Bros. Studios, The Smoke House is known for its garlic cheese bread.

At Musso & Frank, sit at the bar and pair that martini with the flannel cakes or the chicken pot pie.