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YAMASHIRO RESTAURANT
Hollywood Landmark Good Enough to Eat
First
stop on a visit to Hollywood is the long famous footprints at Grauman’s
Chinese Theater where you can measure your Nikes to John Wayne’s
boots, Marilyn Monroe’s
heels (and lips!) and whatever those things on C3P0 and R2D2’s
feet were. But a glance up the hill at the end of Orange Ave., above
Hollywood Boulevard and just behind the Magic
Castle is another
icon of oriental architecture, the Yamashiro Restaurant. And if you think
it looks like a palace from a Japanese Samurai movie, you’d be
right.
Yamashio
means “Mountain
Palace” in Japanese and this replica
of a palace in the Yamashiro mountains of Japan near Kyoto, has stood
on a hill looking over Hollywood like a jewel in the crown since first
conceived
by two
brothers in 1911, originally designed as a private residence to 
house
their Asian art collection. In the golden days of Hollywood’s past
it served as a private club for silent era movie stars and was disguised
and hidden doing the anti-Japanese scare of WWII. And it’s unique
true to original architecture has been used in countless movie and TV
productions from “Shogun” to the recent “Memoirs of
a Geisha”. It is now a restaurant serving award winning California
Asian cuisine.
Any visit to Holloywood should take you up the hill to this unique dining and drinking spot. Stroll through a hillside formal Japanese garden above Hollywood Boulevard before dining in the unique inner courtyard with Koy fish swimming in the garden pools. Or just come for a drink in the lounge with full glass windows looking out over magnificent twinkling lights view of Hollywood and Los Angeles, from downtown to the beaches of Santa Monica (in clear weather). A must for any visit to Hollywood to take you back to the former golden glory days of the silver screen. © Bargain Travel West
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