【AI前沿】What to Do in LA if You’re Here for Business (2025)

Jordan MichelmanGearMay 21, 2026 5:47 PMThe WIRED Guide to Los Angeles for Business TravelersWe Love LA: A tech traveler’s guide to the city’s hippest hotels, best burritos, and must-see cultural experiences.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Photographs: Jordan MichelmanIn TransitPortlandChicagoSeattleSan FranciscoTwin CitiesDumboCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyThe very nameLos Angeles—the “City of Angels”—is plural for a reason. This place contains multitudes; it is not any one thing or singular set of shared realities, but rather a series of overlapping metaphysical geographies, vast and intimidating and yet surprisingly human, intimate and personal. There’s nowhere else quite like it.I’ve been traveling to Los Angeles several times a year for the past decade for myriad reasons: to experience the city’s coffee scene as a cofounder at the international coffee publicationSprudge, to report on the city’s food and bar scene as a contributor toLA Times Food, and as an enthusiastic consumer of LA’s uniquely unrivaled cultural smorgasbord. I go there to work and play, alone and with friends and family, for short trips and extended stays. Along the way, there are parts of the city that have begun to feel familiar and comfortable and others that remain baffling and hard to pin down. All of it remains distinctly compelling. Call me Randy Newman if you’d like: I love LA.In no way does any of this mark me as an expert; Angelenos are rightly wary of outsiders beaming in to make claims on their city. Nothing I can write about LA could ever be definitive, and I apologize in advance for so much of what I’m leaving out, but over the years I’ve learned about places and experiences that help you make the most of your time in the city, however long or short that might be. Below you’ll find a collection of places to stay, play, work, and lose yourself in the bottomless Olympic-size deep-end pool of LA culture.Los Angeles is more beautiful than you’re prepared for. There’s urban grit here, of course, and freeways and off-ramps and parking lots, but also perfumed hillsides alive with birdsong and flowering citrus trees, hundreds of miles of hiking trails, gorgeous mountains framing the city to the east, flowers everywhere, and the world-famous beaches. Griffith Park offers a glimpse of this beauty, and so do hikes around Moon Canyon in the hills of Mount Washington. But one of my favorite things to do is pull off the main thoroughfares and explore the hills, particularly in the area around the famed Laurel Canyon and Mulholland Drive. Every single visit to Los Angeles involves being staggered by the city’s beauty in some way. Even in downtown, where the streets might not sparkle, you need only look up a story or two to take in the stunning art deco facades of the city’s early 20th-century building boom.Jump to SectionAccordionItemContainerButtonLargeChevronWhere to StayWhere to WorkWhere to EatWhere to DrinkExplore a Little MoreWhere to StayThe first rule of where to stay in LA is to ask, “Where am I going to need to be on this trip?” Remember—we want to cut down on car time and cross-city travel so you can enjoy more stuff. Here’s a handful of hotels, each in very different sections of the city, that would make fine base camps for further exploration, plus one hotel so famous and classic I would be remiss not to include its glories on this list.Silver Lake Pool & Inn4141 Santa Monica Blvd., Silver Lake,(323) 486-7225Book NowLocated just off Silver Lake junction—where Sunset Boulevard meets Santa Monica Boulevard—this hotel is ideally located if you’ve got stuff happening in Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, or East Hollywood. Koreatown and Hollywood proper aren’t far, either, and it’s a short hop across the river for hangs in Highland Park, Atwater Village, and Mount Washington.Silver Lake Pool & Inn oozes LA to me. A former motor inn turned into a don’t-call-it-hipster, “upwardly mobile young urban adult with expendable income” playhouse, the hotel’s epic second-floor pool, courtyard restaurant, and comfortable desert-motif rooms tick a lot of boxes. You could work by the pool; you could walk to the spiffy new Erewhon location next door for a $20 celebrity smoothie (they are unfortunately very good); you could walk another block up to the original LA location of Intelligentsia Coffee, the first really important modern coffee bar to open in the city. For the truly bold and cheap among us with a particularly high risk tolerance for such things (it me), there’s even street parking to be sussed out in the neighborhood directly above the hotel, which allows you to skip the valet fee. I’ve stayed here several times and will do so again.Photograph: Jordan MichelmanProper Hotel Downtown1110 S. Broadway,(213) 806-1010Book NowDowntown LA is its own center of orbit, and if you’ve got work events—say, at the LA Convention Center or in the area around LA Live and the Staples Center—it is eminent