Tower Bar

The Sunset Tower was designed by Leland A. Bryant in 1929 and opened in 1931 as an Art Deco apartment building on the Strip. Jeff Klein bought it in 2004 and restored it as a hotel, and in 2005 he turned the ground-floor apartment that had belonged to Bugsy Siegel into the Tower Bar.

The room is walnut panelling, a fireplace, discreet niches for privacy, rose-coloured light, and a jazz pianist. Eighty seats, run for years by the maître d' Dimitri Dimitrov, whom the hotel calls the city's best and The New York Times profiled as a Hollywood anachronism who serves stars but never gossip. Klein's own description is the best one: 'an elegant safe haven for the players,' where 'a duchess can be a devil'.

People put their phones away because they are asked to.

The house rules are posted, and they are part of the charm: no shorts, caps, sweats, sandals or tank tops, and no phone calls, computers or photos. People put their phones away because they are asked to.

Dinner runs to eleven later in the week; on Sundays it is for people staying at the hotel only. Go on a Thursday, have a martini at the bar first, and let the room tell you who else is there without anyone saying a word.

Text to ask.