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1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

Larry Ellison's Palm Springs compound is the backdrop, but the spa at Sensei Porcupine Creek runs on a different philosophy than most desert retreats. The pitch is data-driven wellness, with guides who are actual behavior-change scientists rather than people in linen who hand you cucumber water. You can go deep on biometrics, or fill the day with treatments and pool time and call it research. Vogue named it among the 100 best spas in the world.

1. Vogue 100 Best Spas in the World

The spa inside the Parker Palm Springs calls itself the Palm Springs Yacht Club, which is exactly as absurd as it sounds for a property landlocked in the desert. Jonathan Adler designed it, so expect nautical whimsy alongside the saltwater pool, eucalyptus steam rooms, and saunas. Treatments are personalized and nearly all end with a scalp massage. Vogue named it one of the 100 best spas in the world.

1. Vogue 100 Best Spas in the World

1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
3. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

1. Sunset Top Tables · Where to Eat and Drink
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
3. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

Candlelit stone tables and cushioned banquettes set the mood at this modern California-Mediterranean restaurant inside Palm Springs' Living Out community. Sue Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken run the kitchen, turning out wood-roasted seafood and hand-rolled pastas with the kind of ease that makes it look unfair. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and the Los Angeles Times put it on their 101 best in California list for 2025.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Los Angeles Times The 101 Best Restaurants in California
3. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year

1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year

Walls hung with Calder and Warhol set the tone at this American restaurant and bar, where the design hovers somewhere between garish and glamorous and reservations disappear weeks out. If you didn't plan ahead, arrive before doors open and angle for a bar seat. A precisely made martini is the move, and the burger has earned its reputation as a signature. The Michelin Guide has it listed, and the crowd dresses accordingly.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
3. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West

The surprise here is that "farm-to-table in the desert" is less a marketing line than a geography lesson: the Coachella Valley is one of the country's most productive agricultural corridors, and this modernist New American restaurant sources accordingly, down to a dedicated garden in Rancho Mirage. The space itself is a polished-concrete interior tucked inside an old Spanish-style building, with a mist-cooled courtyard out back. The bar program runs to house-made ginger beer.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
2. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
2. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

The bacon flight, five strips in rotating flavors, is reason enough to brave the wait at this daytime-only brunch spot in Palm Springs. Text-ahead seating lands you on a covered patio full of sunglasses and no particular hurry. The weekly-changing menu leans on local produce and runs from breakfast quesadillas to proper coffee cake, with housemade pastries at the counter for anyone too impatient to sit down.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. The New York Times 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
2. Los Angeles Times The 101 Best Restaurants in California

1. AAA Three Diamonds

On the seventh floor of the Rowan Hotel, this fine dining room has the highest rooftop in downtown Palm Springs, with the San Jacinto Mountains spread out in every direction. The chef riffs on Southern cooking, grilled steaks and seasonal produce with a warm-weather looseness that fits the setting. Date-infused Old Fashioneds arrive while the light goes gold. Prices float as high as the altitude, but so does everything worth watching in Palm Springs.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The patio has its own doggy door, and the dogs get their own menu. Boozehounds is a cocktail bar in Palm Springs where the drinks list runs deep and the bar food swings wider than you'd expect, from truffled parmesan fries to tuna tataki to Korean rice cakes. The indoor room is humans only, sleek and air-conditioned, while the enclosed patio handles the four-legged clientele with its own bowls and treats.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Hacienda arches and in-house tortillas set the tone at this modern Mexican restaurant in downtown Palm Springs, where business lunchers and sunburned tourists in cover-ups share the room without anyone noticing the difference. The menu runs from street tacos to lobster, and the quesabirria short rib tacos come with a side of consommé for dipping. The tequila list is long enough that the margarita flights feel almost restrained.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Moroccan-style tilework and wallpaper set the mood at this hotel restaurant inside Colony Palms, where the turquoise pool has been catching afternoon light since Clark Gable was a regular. The menu keeps things loose, running from snacks and hummus to grilled pork chop and chicken pot pie. Dress is poolside-adjacent, the vibe is old Palm Springs glamour, and someone at the next table may have just driven up from L.A. for the weekend.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Sunset Top Tables · Where to Eat and Drink

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt - Last Word Hospitality

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. AAA Approved

The mahogany L-shaped bar gives away what Paul Bar/Food is before you've ordered anything: a serious cocktail bar that happens to feed you well. It sits next to a strip-mall dispensary, which keeps the tourists guessing and the locals comfortable. Classic drinks get quiet tweaks, a frozen Sidecar here, a black Manhattan there, alongside a short food menu of wings, burgers, and steak frites that nobody's complaining about.

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs
2. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

A dark, stylish room next to the Twist PS hotel that takes itself a little more seriously than most of what Palm Springs has to offer, and earns it. Tailor Shop is a cocktail bar with a short, well-considered menu, the kind of place where a Ward 8 or a Sazerac arrives looking like someone thought about it. The crowd tends toward dressed, not sunburned.

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

The red leather booths survived the renovation intact, and the 1970s diner vibe is so well-preserved you half-expect a harvest-gold appliance somewhere in the back. The Heyday is a casual burger shop on North Palm Canyon serving smash burgers, fried chicken sandwiches, and wings alongside strong classic cocktails and a retro playlist that earns its keep. The kind of place that makes Palm Springs feel less like a wellness retreat and more like a road trip stop.

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs
2. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs
2. Spirited Awards 2023 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Vogue The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

A molcajete that arrives looking like a stone-bowl still life, heaped with grilled meats, nopales, and queso fresco, sets the tone at this relaxed Mexican restaurant in Desert Hot Springs. The menu moves comfortably from huevos divorciados at breakfast through mole enchiladas and carne asada platters at dinner, the kind of cooking that takes its time. The margaritas and mezcal flights give you a reason to as well.

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

1. Eater The Best Restaurants in Palm Springs

The kitchen crew is up at 3 a.m. so you don't have to be, which is the kind of arrangement that makes a bagel shop worth its reputation. Townie is a no-frills NY-style operation in Palm Springs turning out hand-rolled bagels, including a sourdough version and a daily gluten-free batch, plus black-and-white cookies and brownies. Call ahead, because the line in the desert sun is a real thing and a hat will only get you so far.

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