Within steps of the Riverside Convention Center and downtown hotels, guests will enjoy Main Street Riverside and its unique boutiques, restaurants & pubs, and specialty dessert shops. Nightlife is active here. LIVE NATION manages two historic performing arts venues – The Fox Performing Arts Theater and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium & Events Center. It’s no wonder the nation’s most prominent business magazine named Riverside the #8 Coolest City and the #2 Millennial Boomtown in America. And to top it off, Riverside’s Festival of Lights was named as the #1 America’s Best Public Holiday Lights Display in 2014 and #1 Best Holiday Festival in 2015 by the nation’s largest national newspaper. It’s time to visit Riverside.
Downtown Riverside offers a variety of award-winning restaurants, including a AAA Five Diamond steak house, some of Southern California’s best Mexican food, fine French cuisine, specialty Italian, full-fledged American, and specialty boutique sandwich shops. Near downtown, there are a variety of restaurants including California Pizza Kitchen, El Torito, PF Chang’s, Yardhouse, and The Cheesecake Factory.
Downtown Riverside offers the finest in boutique shops, all right outside the doors of the convention center and convention hotels. Shopping malls close to downtown include such national retailers as Nordstrom, Macy’s, Forever 21, all surrounded by fine restaurants and evening entertainment.
Downtown Riverside offers the best in nightlife and entertainment, starting with a lively restaurant, bar/pub and nightclub scene, anchored by two historic performing arts centers managed by Live Nation. Numerous festivals, including the Festival of Lights, Lunar Fest, and Dicken’s Festival regularly enliven downtown by drawing tens of thousands of visitors.
Downtown Riverside is the cultural, entertainment and retail center of Inland Southern California, featuring a legendary collection of cultural landmarks, including Main Street’s pedestrian mall’s statues of great leaders. Downtown’s buildings are attractions in and of themselves, with even more inspiration waiting inside at spots like the Fox Performing Arts Center and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Events Center; the Riverside Art Museum; the National Historic Landmark Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, the Mission Inn Museum, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, and the most beautiful courthouse in America, the famed Riverside County Courthouse.
Offering a variety of activities to keep every visitor busy and satisfied, Riverside offers foodies an eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, pubs and local coffee houses. Shoppers enjoy Riverside’s boutique shops and national retailers, like Nordstrom. Outdoor enthusiasts bike Riverside’s historic trails, and hikers climb its famous mountains, while those looking to rest and relax do so at one on Riverside’s many specialty spas. And being the hub of Southern California, the beaches, deserts, Disneyland, and even the snow-covered mountains are only a short drive away.