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by Jessica Gelt
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From the L.A. Times
 The Tea Room at h.wood
is an exclusive one-room club within an already exclusive nightclub.
Like a glammed-out Russian nesting doll, it is tucked inside the stolid
concrete frame of h.wood, which is located at the far end of the
Hollywood & Highland complex in the tawdry heart of Hollywood.
It cracks its doors only on Wednesdays, when a rush of sultry young
women and slender young men with intricate tattoos wait in line for
admission. Very few will get in, however.
The Tea Room, which is owned by night-life veteran Loyal Pennings and a
duo of driven 29-year-old entrepreneurs named John Terzian and Brian
Toll, trades inaccessibility for its hot-spot cachet.
It's called the Tea Room because it serves "prohibition tea," which is
basically alcohol-infused tea, out of tea pots, just like some
speak-easies did during the 1920s.
The tea idea came naturally enough.
Back when the Tea Room was just a storage room for h.wood, Cher came to the club on a regular basis. "She doesn't drink and she always wanted tea," Terzian says.
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