There is an old-school Hollywood hangout that is both private and upscale that hipsters love to frequent.
It’s where Kylie Jenner holds hands with Timothee Chalamet over pancakes and scrambled eggs.And it’s where Justin Bieber takes his supermodel wife Hailey for bagels and cream cheese with a side of coffee. It’s also where Kim Kardashian meets pals like La La Anthony, and Tom Cruise broke bread with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ashley Benson and her oil heir husband Brandon Davis took their newborn child there for lunch.
Other famous stars who have sat at the counter include Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Victoria Beckham, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Lucille Ball.
It is The Fountain Coffee Room located downstairs at the luxury Beverly Hills Hotel, and directly underneath the much more famous Polo Lounge. It is also not to be confused with the poolside Cabana Cafe.
‘Stars love to come here because it’s hidden away,’ a frequent diner told Dailymail.com. ‘I am here every week and I have seen tons of A-list star. I saw Kim here in a sweat outfit. It’s fun and the star let down their hair, it’s like pass me the salt, no one cares, no one takes photos or pitches scripts, it’s chill.’
There is an old-school Hollywood hangout that is both private and upscale that hipsters love to frequent
It is The Fountain Coffee Room located downstairs at the luxury Beverly Hills Hotel, and directly underneath the much more famous Polo Lounge. It is also not to be confused with the poolside Cabana Cafe
It’s where Kylie Jenner holds hands with Timothee Chalamet over pancakes and scrambled eggs. Seen May 7 in Rome
It has 1950s style counter service at the hotel which has been nicknamed ‘the pink place.’
‘The iconic diner has been serving Hollywood stars since 1949 and you still never know who you might find yourself eating a slice of apple pie next to,’ it says on the hotel’s website.
The menu offers a $32 healthy eggs benedict, $32 avocado toast, $34 Scottish salmon bagel with cream cheese, a $36 FCR Cobb salad, a $29 breakfast burrito and a $22 banana split, along many other things. For the budget-minded there is cereal for $9.
Freshly squeezed orange juice is $14 and a cup of coffee is $7.
It’s open seven days a week from 7am until 4pm.
The story of The Beverly Hills Hotel is almost like a fairy-tale, for where this hotel of legend now stands, there used to be a field of beans.
Hollywood movie stars including Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth used to hang out there. So did Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
The iconic property on Sunset Boulevard was built in 1912, with architect Elmer Grey, for $500,000 ($13million in today’s money).
At that time, the city of Beverly Hills did not exist and the hotel was built in open fields and billed as a destination ‘halfway between Los Angeles and the sea’.
Two years after the hotel opened, Beverly Hills was incorporated as a city and by the 1920s it was one of the smartest addresses in the world.
Justin and Hailey Bieber – seen in 2020 in Los Angeles – often hit the cute cafe
Earlier this month Ashley Benson and her oil heir husband Brandon Davis took their newborn child there for lunch
The hotel became known for making its famous guests feel at home, and indulging their desire for privacy. Among the first well-known guests were silent film-era stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, who shot movies at the hotel.
By the 1940s, the hotel switched hands. The new owner was Hernando Courtright, the vice president of Bank of America.
He renamed El Jardin Restaurant the Polo Lounge in honour of a celebrity band of polo players who toasted victories at the restaurant after matches in the bean fields.
Towards the end of the decade, the hotel had its first major facelift, and in 1947 it opened the Crystal Room and the Lanai Restaurant (later renamed The Coterie).
The hotel is known for its pink exterior, and this hue first appeared in 1948 to complement LA’s famous sunsets and the country club style of that time.
That year also saw the addition of the Crescent Wing, named after the hotel’s location on Crescent Drive. The hotel’s name is written in huge letters on one of its outer walls – and this section is now one of the most photographed.
In the early 1950s, Detroit real-estate magnate Ben Silberstein purchased the hotel for $5.5 million and its popularity with royalty and celebrities continued to escalate.
New guests included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, King Albert of Belgium, the Crown Prince of Monaco, John Wayne and Henry Fonda.
‘Stars love to come here because it’s pretty private,’ a frequent diner told Dailymail.com
‘I am here every week and I have seen tons of A-list star. I saw Kim here in a sweat outfit. It’s fun and the star let down their hair, it’s like pass me the salt, no one cares, no one takes photos or pitches scripts, it’s chill’
The menu offers a $32 healthy eggs benedict, $32 avocado toast, $34 Scottish salmon bagel with cream cheese, a $36 FCR Cobb salad, a $29 breakfast burrito and a $22 banana split, along many other things
Heidi Klum poses after falling in the pool while celebrating her second QVC collection at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007
Hugh Grant relaxes by the pool in 2000 at the Beverly Hills Hotel
Another regular, the androgynously elegant Marlene Dietrich, convinced the hotel’s Polo Lounge restaurant to change its ‘no slacks for women’ dress code in the 1940s.
In 1956, the hotel’s pool and cabana club were backdrops for Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall in Designing Women, while Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the rest of the Rat Pack engaged in prodigious drinking bouts in the Polo Lounge.
Liz Taylor honeymooned in the hotel’s lavish bungalows with six of her husbands, including Richard Burton. Bungalow Five was one of their favorite hangouts.
Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes not only lived in the bungalows on and off for 30 years but, starting in 1942, he parked his Cadillac in front of the hotel for so long that plants started growing out of it.
He also had hotel staff leave late-night meals, including roast beef sandwiches, in a nearby tree.
Marilyn Monroe stayed in bungalows 20 and 21 in 1960 while reportedly having an affair with her Let’s Make Love co-star Yves Montand.
The story of The Beverly Hills Hotel is almost like a fairy-tale, for where this hotel of legend now stands, there used to be a field of beans. Hollywood movie stars including Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth used to hang out there
John Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed in bed for a week in another bungalow in the 1970s.
The Beverly Hills Hotel went through several ownership changes in the 1980s.
The Boeskys gained control in 1986 for $100 million, and later that year, the hotel was sold for $136 million to Denver oilman Marvin Davis.
In 1987, Davis sold the hotel to its present owner, the Dorchester Collection, which is run by the Sultan of Brunei.
This link recently became controversial when Brunei rolled out its interpretation of Islamic laws, or sharia, punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning.
Actor George Clooney led a global backlash and the Southeast Asian country extended a moratorium on the death penalty to the legislation.
On December 30, 1992, the hotel closed for a complete restoration, with the project lasting two and a half years.
The hotel reopened on June 3, 1995, with upgrades and custom-designed furniture and fittings.
And in 2016, the hotel began a restoration of its historic bungalows, with work conducted on all 23 bungalows in phases throughout 2018.
