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5 Beautiful Places For You To Elope

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Post Ranch Inn
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Let’s face it, when you’re planning to take the matrimonial plunge, standard banquet rooms, bulging bridal parties and seating chart purgatory might not be the fairytale you envisioned. Luckily, these five elopement locale—at Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, Post Ranch Inn, L’Auberge Carmel, Calistoga Ranch and Langham Place, Fifth Avenue—let you hand off the hassle of planning and tie the knot in luxury with only the most important people in your lives — even if it’s just you and your fiancée.

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6 Los Angeles Wine Bars Perfect For Sipping

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The Tasting Room at Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village,
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While Los Angeles isn’t far from a prime grape-growing region, you’ll find the city’s top wine bars are stocked with international selections that come from far beyond Napa and Sonoma. Whether you want to travel through tastes to France, Italy or more far-flung locales, you can get your fix at Southern California’s bevy of wine bars. Here are six—A.O.C., Zinque, Vintage Enoteca, The Must, Bar Covell, The Tasting Room at Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village— we can’t stop pouring out the praises over.

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6 Lavish Lunches Around Los Angeles

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Freds at Barneys New York
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Whether you’re power lunching or craving a refined way to dine during the day, leave fast-casual behind and pull up a chair at one of these six exquisite Los Angeles midday destinations like Freds at Barneys New York, Fig & Olive Melrose Place, The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Ray’s and Stark Bar, Culina, Modern Italian and the Four Season Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and Tavern in Brentwood.

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5 Impressive Spots For Whiskey In Los Angeles

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£10’s Whisky Flight
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Historically, there may have never been a bad time to drink whiskey in Los Angeles. The popular spirit somehow even evaded strict Prohibition laws (heck, you could buy it at Walgreens with a prescription at one time). Today, it is aged to perfection, served tableside with aromatic accoutrements and woven into stellar cocktails. Here are five great places to appreciate the revered elixir around the city right now.

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Celebrate Beverly Hills’ 100th Birthday In Style

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When you’re hashing out travel plans for 2014, put Beverly Hills at the top of your list. In addition to world-class shopping and dining, the city — incorporated in 1914 —is celebrating its centennial with all the style and glamour it has come to define over the last century.

Five of Forbes Travel Guide’s star-rated hotels are crowning the centennial celebrations with “Suite 100″— where luxury travelers on the hunt for an over-the-top experience can book a night in a suite specially designed to transport them to glamorous decades that defined the city’s history. From an environment emulating 1940s film noir at Montage Beverly Hills to another evoking Studio 54 at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, each suite is outfitted specifically so you can experience the luxury of an earlier era, whether it’s with bespoke Art Deco-inspired furniture or an iPad photo booth. Here’s the scoop on what you can expect at each of the properties. Read More On Forbes Travel Guide>>