A Restored Classic Reopens in Ojai

A Restored Classic Reopens in Ojai

The newly renovated Mariposa Room at Hotel El Roblar. Nestled beneath the Topa Topa Mountains, Ojai’s oldest hotel reopens with two new restaurants—and two giant resident turtles, Abra and Cadabra By Bronwen Carter Less than a two-hour drive up the California coast from Los Angeles, you arrive at what the 8,000-odd locals refer to—for good reason—as “Shangri-La.” It was the setting for Frank Capra’s 1937 film adaptation of James Hilton’s Lost Ho…