7000 Hollywood Boulevard

25 Degrees: Casual burger and cocktail bar. Open 24 hours. 

The Public Kitchen + Bar: Eclectic yet relaxed dining experience – quite meaty!

Library Bar: A full cocktail bar hidden in the corner of the lobby of the hotel but plush and velvety inside. 

The Spare Room: A gaming parlour and cocktail lounge. 

Tropicana Pool Cafe: Cocktails and healthier brunch foods and snacks. A 1960s style cafe and bar made for poolside indulgence (this last sentence was directly taken from the website)

25 Degrees is one of the Hollywoood Roosevelts eateries on site along with the their other establishments: The Spare Room, The Public Bar, Tropicana Pool Cafe and The Library. Since we could charge everything to the room and they serve lots of breakfast foods we were pretty happy to eat breakfast there every morning. 

The decor consists of lots of wood and red velvet, quite plush yet masculine it was has a sense of glam Old Hollywood history. It is open 24 hours serving breakfast and lunch, while dinner options were upscale burgers and alcoholic milkshakes – they also had a pretty good cocktail list. 

Our server for a couple of the mornings was a lovely older African American who was a bit of a character – we almost asked for a photo of him to add to the blog but chickened out! Our breakfasts were a series of egg scrambles and fruit, or egg scrambles and hash browns and once Tashy even branched out and got granola. 

Pretty enjoyable and easy enough food (nothing compared to the breakfasts we like at home at our preferred Cafes) very cheesy and American but still good. I had diet cokes and Tashy had black coffees most days (the tough cookie she is). 

We had cocktails there one night and got drunk off them – we decided that they make drinks stronger in the states!

As mentioned in another post, we also visited the hipster paradise which was The Spare Room, replete with boutique two lane indoor bowling alley and bingo night with the cool kids. We ate some fries there (along with expensive cocktails) and they were decidedly average. People do not go there for the food! They were lukewarm at best and just some boring shoestring fries with Parmesan cheese sprinkled on them – yet still managed to be about $11. Sigh. 

On our poolside day, which you can read about here  (warning – you’ll be jealous) we got food from the poolside cafe & bar The Tropicana. AND IT WAS AMAZING. We got a strawberry protein smoothie, a chocolate croissant and a quinoa salad bowl and they were all SO GOOD. It was brilliant to be able to eat good food again and it’s the sort of fare we were hoping to find more of in Cali. We think on our last leg of our trip back in Cali we’ll be able to find more of it when we visit Silverlake or Santa Monica where there’s a bit more of a health food / vegetarian trend happening. 

Ju X