Inside, the cathedral vibe is shaken up by acres of Philippine-sourced geometric tiles and furniture. Above the bar hangs a giant photo of a glaring Marco Pierre White to provide a wink of badassery.
Nobu Malibu is one of the few restaurants with an ocean view—and damn, what a view. The long and low modern building stares right out over the ocean, the beach down below.
Housed inside of a giant glass greenhouse, tables are tucked under and around hanging plants (and vines, and fig trees), with garden hoses everywhere. So yeah, the veggie-centric menu makes sense.
A cantilevered stack of glass-and-wood boxes, surrounded by century-old olive trees, with one side covered in a massive—as in 84-feet-by-32-feet— photographic mural by Damien Hirst of swimming fish.
The Dresden opened in 1954, and its stunning, unchanged dining room will immediately remind you that Rat-Pack-dominated ’50s was the coolest decade ever.
