The Club Bar at the Peninsula Beverly Hills

The Peninsula extends luxury and excellent service to its Beverly Hills outpost's Club Bar, the hotel's cocktail lounge. Understated, unobtrusive (and quite expensive—glasses of wine up to the $25 range), there's no bar scene, but it’s where the real power players—the agents and producers and other power houses you won’t recognize—wheel and deal over single malts and the classiest bar snacks in town from complimentary housemade taro chips and wasabi almonds to a la carte dim sum.  Grab a seat at the bar or people watch at the more intimate banquettes.