"If celebrating your birthday involves some combo of dinner and drinks, Palo Santo makes it easy to do both without having to hunt for your valet ticket. This modern Mexican restaurant and rooftop bar on the Westside is a moody, multi-level showstopper. Downstairs the open kitchen flaunts its wood-fire grill early and often with flames shooting up periodically. Tables fill up with whole heads of golden-brown cauliflower (a must-order) and flaky branzino. After dinner head to the roof where a DJ plays house music so loud you can usually hear it on the street." - nina reeder, jacinta howard