The Club Bar at The Peninsula Beverly Hills

Inside the Peninsula Beverly Hills, dark wood panels of California birch line a room built around a wide fireplace, with leather chairs circling it in a layout meant to recall an old-school gentleman's club. The list runs to rare single malts, scotches, tequilas and cognacs, plus wines by the glass including the hotel's own Sonoma pinot noir. Entertainment-industry regulars have made it enough of a fixture that Los Angeles magazine once named it the city's best power bar.