Famous Hotels And Meals From Movies

Movies are one of the best ways to be entertained. Have you ever loved a movie so much that you want to live it out? You often can. Many of the movies have been set inside hotels that really exist. You can also get some great meals by watching movies. Sometimes, you can watch a movie and instantly be hungry because they make it all look so good. All you have to do is pay attention to what they are eating – and some epic dishes have come out of movies over the past 100 years.

Famous Hotels and Destinations Made Famous by Movies

Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, California
The hotel that Julia Roberts stayed in when she was a prostitute in Pretty Woman. The charming bellhop would hold the door open and the general manager taught her how to eat at the dinner table.

Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, Florida
This hotel was featured in Goldfinger, where James Bond helped to uncover a mystery. A bond girl was found dead inside the hotel – and was covered in gold paint.

Serendipity is a restaurant in California
Also the title of a movie starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. A couple meets, falls in love, and then separates, convinced they will end up together again one day if it is truly meant to be.

Timberland Lodge, Oregon
This location was the home of The Shining – Jack Nicholson had spooky things going on in the movie here. It is a popular lodge for skiing and snowboarding and not the least bit creepy.

Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, CA
 The movie Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe used this 120 year old hotel as the backdrop for the hotel. It was ideal for being Prohibition era – though interior scenes were not shot inside the hotel.

Vertigo Hotel in San Francisco, CA
The Vertigo Hotel was the location for Hitchcock’s Vertigo. They lived inside the hotel, which was called the Empire Hotel when it was being filmed.

Forks, Washington
Ever since Twilight made it to the big screen, tweens flock to Forks every year, dragging their families behind them. The town has embraced their Twilight mention and offers an array of tours and other things to do.

Central Park

Some locations are used across countless movies. Just look at Central Park. There have been movies that have used the Central Park benches and the carriage rides for countless movies. Many of the movies that you know and love have used big cities like Miami, New York City, and Los Angeles as backdrops – and you may not have even known it.

Home Alone 2 was filmed almost entirely in New York. Ernest Saves Christmas was filmed in Orlando. Any movie that you find was filmed somewhere – and you can visit some of the locations that you have seen. In some instances, you can even stay in the hotels where the stars walked across the lobby floor and touched the same banister on the staircase that you will have the opportunity to touch.

Famous Meals Made Famous by Movies

Whenever you go and see a movie where there’s a food scene, you pay attention. It makes you hungry. And then because of that movie, you end up wanting to eat that same food. Some food has been created entirely as a result of movies while others are simply remembered from making an appearance in a movie.

Meatballs, anyone? Lady and the Tramp may be a Disney animated film, but it can make you crave spaghetti and meatballs just at the sight of the movie poster.

Brooklyn style pizza, folded in half. Anyone from New York will tell you this is how you are supposed to eat pizza. Tony Manero (played by John Travolta) shows you how to eat it in Saturday Night Live. He piles two slices on top of each other, folds them in half, and eats then single-handedly.

Crème Brulee with a spoon. When you watch Amelie, you want crème brulee – and when you have crème brulee, you want to watch the movie. The way she ate the dessert even made it to the movie poster.

Food of the Godfather. Al Pacino recommends “try the veal” and to this day, there are people all over the U.S. taking this advice. There are also plenty of people who take the advice on the dessert, too. They “take the cannoli” and leave the gun behind. Everyone has to have priorities.

Abe loves chowder. Once the Abraham Lincoln movie came out, more people were looking for oyster chowder since it was a favorite of the president. Many restaurants and food websites delivered by adding it to their menu or offering up a recipe.

Raisin Bran makes a comeback. In the Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper asked for Raisin Bran for dinner. Wouldn’t you know, there are now diners adding this cereal to their dinner menu in order to pay tribute to the movie.

Regardless of whether you are looking for someplace to stay, visit, or eat, you can rely on your favorite movies to provide you with inspiration. Almost every good movie has a location that is real, even if the name is changed for simple purposes. Look at what your favorite characters eat and what they do. It’s likely that you have found yourself eating many of those same foods – or wanting to do some of the same things that they have done.