I have yet to eat at The Blvd, but I have visited the bar a few times. On the plus side it's a nice room in a great location, right on Wilshire directly across from Rodeo in the handsome Beverly Wilshire Hotel. I've heard the dining room is sometimes eerily empty, but on a recent Thursday night both the bar and restaurant were full but pleasantly just shy of crowded. Like the Four Seasons and Beverly Hills Hotel, The Blvd. is a place to treat yourself to an expensive drink among the fascinatingly odd cross-section of Beverly Hills characters: The older men is suits, the very old folks with oddly-colored hair and stretched skin who never leave the 90210, young, attractive women with older men, young men with too much time and money who are either fighting or will soon fight an addiction, foreign tourists, and the occasional working girl wandering through willing to satisfy any Pretty Woman fantasies.
Pros: Great location, handsome room.
Cons: Pricey drinks, even for Beverly Hill$.
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