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Riverside's Mission Inn Lights Up Christmas Season in Los Angeles

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Events

New Yorkers may mark the start of the holiday season with the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center and Washingtonians may feel the same about the lighting of the White House Christmas tree. But in greater Los Angeles, holiday cheer-seekers head east -- to the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside.

Inn owner Duane Roberts illuminates his landmark hotel with more than 3.5 million lights and stages a free Festival of Lights show, replete with an elaborately decorated Christmas tree, Dickens carolers, horse-drawn carriages and more than 400 animated characters dressed in 17th Century costumes. There's even free hot cocoa, eggnog and holiday sweets. (No, there's no snow, but truth is most of us moved here because we weren't that attached to it in the first place.)

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Double Cross Vodka Welcomes Park Avenue Winter

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Filed under: Dining

As New Yorkers pull out their sleeping bag jackets to weather the biting cold, and now the wave of winter rain, at least one friendly standby is here to mark the passage of the new season: the reopening of Park Avenue Winter. The decor of this New York institution, with crystal and glass chandeliers, white lacquered moldings, and lighting integrated with sparse birch branches, is one of the few things that can warm us up coming in from the cold. Add a fine vodka to your dinner, and you'll be set for the season.

Double Cross Vodka has teamed up with Park Avenue Winter to celebrate the restaurant's arrival. The gorgeous bottle reflects the restaurant's design: an icy white frost with silver snowflakes. But we really love what's inside: Double Cross is one of the purest spirits available on the market, expertly distilled seven times and filtered seven-times. This singular vodka is produced in the Slovak Republic, sourcing local winter wheat and mountain spring water, and distilled in a 13th century village in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains.

For the first time ever, Park Avenue Winter will offer a Tableside Ice Bar, featuring the exclusive winter bottle served with winter mixers: Citrus-Lemongrass, Bartlett Pear, and Lychee Elderflower. This exceptional bottle is the perfect complement to your wintertime meal, and the best way we know how to enjoy the chill.

Park Avenue Winter
100 East 63rd Street at Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
212.644.1900 for reservations

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