Century City Mall

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Century City Mall

Overview: One of the most pleasant, clean and trendy malls in Los Angeles, the Century City Mall, officially known as the Westfield Century City, is a great place to spend a morning, afternoon or evening. The Century City Mall is located just west of Beverly Hills and east of Westwood and West Los Angeles between Santa Monica Blvd and Olympic Blvd.

One of the great advantages that the Century City Mall has over other malls and shopping centers is its outdoor, open-air walkways. The Century City Mall is a “mall” in the traditional sense that retail shops are clumped together in one area but the open-air venue combined with usually pleasant weather makes Century City Mall a desirable place to shop and hang out. There is a wide variety of retail stores like Pink, Louis Vuitton, Abercrombie and Fitch, Apple store, and much more. The department stores are Bloomingdales and Macys.

The Century City Mall has a very extensive and nice food court or “Dining Terrace” on the second floor with inside and patio seating as well as pastry shops throughout the mall. The dining terrace offers abundunt choices of eats because of the surrounding businesses. Century City itself is a small area with lots of corporate businesses, highrises. Fox Studios, Fox Plaza and MGM are some showbiz companies sitting adjacent to the mall. So the food court has to provide a wide gamut of foods, including Mr. Hana, Korean food, Tacone Flavor Grill, Baja Fresh and more. By the way, Century’s City Mall’s proximity to show business companies and its overall popularity brings stars and celebs. You never know who you see walking around in sunglasses and hats.

A place of entertainment and fine dining, the Century City Mall has brought in popular restaurants, including the swanky Pink Taco, which has a happy hour special of two drinks for the price of one and RockSugar, an Asian fusion restaurant. Both are swanky and hip restaurants and places to fill your happy hour needs. Finally, check out a flick at the very impressive, recently renovated AMC Century City 15 Theatres. It’s a real pleasure sitting in their comfy seats and enjoying the big screen. The matinees only cost $6 a movie.

Like the Beverly Center mall, the Century City Mall can be a little confusing to find your way around and it can take more time than you’d like to get out of the parking lot because of the sheer number of others trying to get out.

Location: 10250 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Site: http://westfield.com/centurycity/
Ph: (310) 277-3898

Parking: Parking is not cheap here. The first 3 hours are free but expect to pay $3.00 – that’s with movie ticket validation! – for a min past 3 hours and more for another hour past that.

Accessibility: The entire mall is wheelchair accessible.

Getting There: www.bigbluebus.com, http://www.culvercity.org/bus/bus.asp (Culver City bus), www.metro.net