Inside the grand Hollywood restaurant Paley, Jonathan Gold takes amused small bites

Jonathan Gold reviews grand Hollywood restaurant Paley. It is named in celebration of the artistic and innovative era shaped by CBS CEO and visionary William S. Paley and his wife, Babe Paley.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • June 24, 2016
The last time I visited Paley, a bored parking attendant waved me into a Do Not Enter lane, through a maze of narrow passageways and down to a cavernous lower level where mine was pretty much the only car. An elevator whooshed me up to an...
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