Velvet Lounge
Bar · Downtown ·
Seasonal Cal-French fare, wine, cocktails, live music, historic setting
Seasonal Cal-French fare, wine, cocktails, live music, historic setting
"The Culver Hotel is one of the better-kept secrets in downtown Culver City and its ground-floor bar is open all day, every day. Located down the street from the old MGM Studios (now Sony Studios), this place has movie history coming from every direction - case in point: the Wizard of Oz-themed cocktails. (Fact: the cast stayed here during filming in the 1930’s). Happy Hour runs from 4pm to 7pm every day, and involves $6 wine, $9 cocktails, and bar bites." - brant cox
"Culver City isn’t exactly the first place your mind goes when you think Old Hollywood, but the Culver Hotel might change that. Built in 1924 just a few blocks from what was then MGM Studios and is now Sony, this historic hotel has an excellent lobby bar that’s quiet and romantic, but never dull. If you’re looking for a nightcap after a date and want to drink a cocktail in the same hotel where the cast of The Wizard of Oz stayed during production, remember Culver Hotel." - brant cox
"You don’t generally come to Culver City to get a taste of old Hollywood, but at the Culver Hotel, you’re straight up smothered by it. Movie history runs deep at this landmark hotel, and there isn’t a better way to cap off a great date night than cruising up to the lobby bar, ordering an Old Fashioned, and pretending you don’t work in a law office on the weekdays." - jess basser sanders, amy clark, brant cox
"In the historic Beaux-Arts Culver City Hotel under Proper Hospitality, Lillie’s serves Cal-French fare across raw-bar starters, French onion soup, steak frites, roast chicken, chilled Maine lobster, and more, backed by a full bar and natural-wine selection and reviving intimate cafe-style live music nights at the hotel." - Eater Staff
"Set on the ground floor of the historic Culver Hotel, this new French bistro offers a relaxed lobby dining room and a people-watching garden outside, nightly live music during the holidays, and predictable-but-solid French fare—cheesy onion soup, fresh oysters, shrimp cocktail, and a well-seared wagyu bavette with crisp fries were very solid while some items (snapper, mussels, salad) fell short—making it feel like a festive European jaunt without the flight." - Eater Staff