6 New Ideas for Entertaining in Los Angeles

Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach introduced surf-centric offerings for meetings and events in summer 2015. Guests are able to hold their boardroom meetings at the beach, complete with notepads, pens, and beach chairs. Other offerings include beach cruiser scavenger hunts, sand-castle-building contests, yoga, sand-side s'mores roasting, and small-group surf and paddleboard classes.

Bottega Louie recently launched a new line of custom special occasion cakes for weddings, birthdays, bridal showers, graduations, corporate events, and more. Customers can work with a cake designer to come up with an original cake or choose a cake from the Los Angeles market's portfolio. Cake flavors include vanilla raspberry, cinnamon cappuccino, and orange chiffon, and quirky style options include a "Topsy Turvy" cake.

At its 15th anniversary party, Los Angeles-based event furniture rental company Lounge Appeal unveiled a new custom-designed full bar that offers pressed-juice cocktails. The bar has interchangeable front pieces and the craft cocktails, which include flavors like pressed cucumber, lemon, and watermelon, are provided by Snake Oil & Company. Pricing is available upon request.

At next year's Golden Globes, Petrossian West Hollywood Restaurant and Boutique will provide $50,000 worth of caviar at a special bar for celebrities. The bar will feature an ice sculpture centerpiece behind tins of the brand's caviar.

WP24 by Wolfgang Puck at the Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles, is currently undergoing a concept and decor revamp, which includes new menu items. For events, the restaurant's catering options now include innovative dim sum creations, such as tiny pork belly dumplings, "dan dan" dumplings with organic chicken and chili garlic sauce, crystal chive dumplings with Alaskan king crab, and seafood dumplings with sweet shrimp and Maine lobster.