Behind the walls of the windowless Barman Building in Beverly Hills, La Dolce Vita—the legendary restaurant and Frank Sinatra-Sammy Davis Jr. hangout that opened in 1966 but closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic—is back. The front door, with its massive cheetah-shaped handle, swings ajar to reveal a luscious new dining room, and maître d’ Christos Kalabogias (formerly of Tower Bar) hands you an aperitivo.

“We wanted to really maintain the integrity of what this room was, but to give it our spin,” says new owner Marc Rose of his and business partner Med Abrous’s renovation of the 79-seat celebrity haunt once frequented by everyone from the Reagans to Tom Ford to George Raft (who, like Sinatra, was an original investor).