This neighborhood Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills is a scene, but not in the way you’d expect from a restaurant on Canon Drive. Generations of families share the same bowls of pasta they’ve been eating for decades, and groups of friends who are all back in town for the holidays chug wine so they can actually fall asleep in their childhood beds. Eating in Il Pastaio’s string-lit dining room is like being at a classic hometown restaurant where no matter when you look, you’ll see someone you know.

photo credit: Jakob Layman