Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2016

With details on everything from the Hollywood Bowl to the Sunset Strip, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.

The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into 57 mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment hotspots with NFT’s user-friendly icons.

Want to drive around the palm tree–peppered concrete jungle like a pro? NFT has you covered. How about sunbathing on a beach? We’ve got that, too. The nearest Hollywood club, holistic health practitioner, sports outing, or shopping destination—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. The guide also includes:

• A foldout highway map covering all of Los Angeles
• Over 150 neighborhood and city maps
• A guide to TV and movie studio locations
• Listings for the best shopping destinations

Everything from supermarkets, cafés, bars, and gas stations, to information on 24-hour services, beaches, public transportation, and city events—NFT will help you find a boutique for an Oscar gown and then show you how to get there.

Not For Tourists (NFT) released their first book, a guide to Manhattan, in May of 2000. Today, NFT produces eleven books each year, working closely with city and neighborhood editors in Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC. Their offices are in New York City.

"For people who don't want to be seen carrying a guidebook." —The New York Times

"Take an A to Z, mix it with a Lonely Planet and throw in all the things a guidebook should never say, and voilà." —The Observer

"A series of guides designed to make you feel like a local." —CNN

"Quality guides written by travel experts" —Travel Channel

“Survival handbooks for natives—but they can be lifesavers for visitors as well.” —The Boston Globe

“It’s not quite Lonely Planet, and it’s not quite the Yellow Pages, but NFT may be their bastard child.” —Toronto Star

“This is one guidebook you won’t find in the fanny pack next to the wet wipes.” —Entertainment

"At NFT’s core is that most important of things...good taste.” —The Guardian