Hotel Shangri La Santa Monica: Newly opened in the fall of 2009, Suite 700, the rooftop bar at the Art Deco Shangri-La in Santa Monica, has views of the Santa Monica pier, sunsets, anddowntown L.A.. The space is open to the public but reservations are required; hotel guests get first crack at them. Downstairs at the pool, DJs spin Thursdays through Sundays until midnight while fashionable guests drink around the oblongfirepit or hobnob in private cabanas, says www.oyster.com.
