Beverly Hills Hotel | Polo Lounge | tennis | food

California Love

by Mark Seal

But you did manage to escape long enough to work out. Where would you go after Crunch, if you didn't go back to your apartment? I would go to brunch or lunch and eat at a lot of the places that are actually still my joints. There's this place called Quality. It's on Third Street. The decor is very clean and simple and very unpretentious, and they have delicious omelets and salads. Everything tastes really fresh. They have the most incredible biscuits you have ever tasted in your life. You just put the butter on ... my fiancé feels like they don't even need butter. The biscuits are so good. I found Joan's on Third, which is another place I really love. I eat there, like, three times a week. It's ­really embarrassing. It's a little gourmet deli/­restaurant. They have a huge array of food. They have sandwiches with mortadella, and they have curried chicken, salmon, and delicious salads. And then they sell, you know, wines and mustards and jams and olive oil. Whenever I do a party, they cater it.

Is there a hotel you like? I love going to Beverly Hills Hotel, to the little Polo Lounge and the little diner downstairs, where you can get a really yummy turkey burger called the Novogroder. Oh yeah, Novogroder cheeseburger with pickles. I don't know why they call it that, but it's delicious. It's just so juicy. It's so many different tastes all together. The Beverly Hills Hotel is very old-school ­Hollywood. I always have a weird feeling of being an old movie star there. I feel like I should be wearing a little tennis outfit, and I should be about to go play tennis. It's all salmon and green. I like the Polo Lounge at night. It's a big kind of landmark for me, because David [Benioff, her fiancé] lives up in the canyon, so whenever I was going on a date with him, you know, I would always drive by the hotel. And when we were on our first date, we went there after going to a restaurant called Nishimura, so it has sentimental meaning.


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