For the stratified society at the center of BEEF Season 2, membership at the Monte Vista Point Country Club is the ultimate status symbol. When you set eyes on the place, you immediately understand why. 

Seconds into the season premiere, the camera pans over guests gathered on a sprawling cliffside lawn as the sun sets over the sparkling Pacific Ocean. From there, you see an idyllic Spanish-style structure with striking white walls and a clay-tiled roof surrounded by lush greenery and pristine tennis courts. The lavish but cozy feel of the Southern California escape is hard to resist — no matter your opinion of the billionaire class who calls the club their home away from home. 

This season of BEEF follows four Monte Vista Point Country Club employees — newly engaged Ashley Miller (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton) and unhappily married Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac) and Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan) — as they vie for the approval of the club’s new billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung). Naturally, this season has plenty of beefing, blackmailing, and general bad behavior. With all the enviable amenities and that breathtaking landscape, you’re probably wondering if Monte Vista Point is a real place. Filming actually took place at two different clubs, as well as a number of other stunning SoCal locations. Keep reading to learn more about the spots.

Monte Vista Point Country Club

BEEF creator, showrunner, and executive producer Lee Sung Jin came up with the idea of making a country club the focus of Season 2 after he began frequenting them himself. “With the success of Season 1, I had the opportunity to visit a lot of country clubs. It was interesting to see the level of comfort and luxury that is afforded to certain people,” he explains. “As I started to catch myself getting a little bit comfortable, I started thinking maybe there’s something here.” Lee’s fictional version of what he calls “a perfect microcosm of society” was pieced together through shots of both the Spanish Hills Club in Camarillo, California, and the Montecito Club in Santa Barbara, California. Spanish Hills’s tennis courts and golf course serve as Monte Vista Point’s outdoor athletic facilities, while Montecito Club provides its great lawns and clubhouse exteriors.

For Monte Vista Point’s color palette, production designer Grace Yun was inspired by the season of summer and aimed to make the environment feel like an “endless vacation of lush vibrancy, with eternal green grass and butter yellows.” She brought in the natural topography that surrounds these real-life country clubs — foliage, trees, and mountains at sunset.

Josh and Lindsay’s house

“As millennials without much money, [Josh and Lindsay] probably got priced out of Montecito,” Lee says. Instead, they landed in Ojai, which he describes as a “millennial haven” that many view as a “little utopia in nature.” In reality, though, the house that Josh and Lindsay are trying desperately to make a home is located in Calabasas.

Instead of the pristine mansions and cookie-cutter gated communities that many have come to associate with the suburb (thanks to the Kardashian-Jenner clan), Josh and Lindsay’s abode channels warm Ojai vibes. Its rustic features play into the unfinished quality of the couple’s partially remodeled home, which holds a deeper meaning. “The frustration of living in this constant work in progress is also a metaphor for their own marriage — something that they have been meaning to fix but have never quite gotten around to because of the pressures of work and staying afloat.” Lindsay’s at-times kitschy “English cottage” design aesthetic also reflects the couple’s nagging romantic issues. Yun and set decorator Kellie Jo Tinney say that “by accumulating objects, she distracts herself from her unfulfilled need for comfort and affection in her relationship with Josh.”

Austin and Ashley’s apartment

The items in Austin and Ashley’s home also tell us more about who they are. As is typical of Gen Z, they’re renters, so their only way to personalize the space is through decor. “Their approach to nesting is sentimental,” Yun says. “It’s driven by memories they can make around certain objects brought from their family homes or that they thrifted together. It may not be luxurious, but it is their own.” While moments set inside the apartment were filmed in a studio, the establishing and exterior shots were captured outside an apartment complex in Newhall.

Austin, Ashley, and Eunice’s lunch spot

Upon Chairwoman Park’s arrival, Ashley becomes intent on impressing her new boss. So she sets up a lunch with Eunice (Seoyeon Jang) — Chairwoman Park’s interpreter and right-hand woman — at a restaurant called China Bamboo House. The awkward meal that ensues between the two women and Austin was captured at a real Chinese restaurant in Tarzana called Garden Wok.

Pixie Grove Retreat

After hatching a new money-making scheme, Josh and Lindsay feel they can finally move forward with their dream of fully transforming their Ojai home into a luxury bed and breakfast. In hopes of gaining inspiration — or perhaps more accurately, a sense of superiority — they visit another couple’s newly opened resort called Pixie Grove Retreat. Though Josh and Lindsay are ready to talk trash, the incredible 100 acres, which are actually nestled in the rolling canyons of Agoura Hills, leave both speechless. 

Park mansion

Chairwoman Park’s California residence communicates her status within the world of the show. An ultramodern seaside mansion in Malibu was selected for this particular location. Park’s wealth and power, according to Yun, is “embedded in the architecture. It’s actually in the texture of the walls and in the flow of the space.”

Troy’s Park City ski chalet

In an attempt to cheer up Josh after his beloved dachshund, Burberry, goes missing, Monte Vista Point member Troy (William Fichtner) whisks him off to Park City, Utah, in a private jet. Once there, they enjoy a private concert from Josh’s favorite band, Hot Chip, inside Troy’s lavish ski chalet. While the storyline unfolds in Utah, emphasizing just how easy it is for the elite to flit off to an entirely different state, it was actually filmed at an estate in Thousand Oaks.

Ojai main street

While Josh is off in Park City, Lindsay’s back in Ojai, committed to tracking down their dog. As she posts missing signs around town, she runs into Austin and Ashley, who are also looking for the escaped Burberry. This unexpected encounter, which leads to a shift in Ashley and Lindsay’s tense relationship, was set and shot on Ojai Avenue across the street from Libbey Park; the shopping strip’s characteristic Spanish-style arches are on full display.

Troy’s mansion

As a mogul who owns “a PJ” and can call in favors to a band like Hot Chip, Troy has more than one piece of property, of course. We visit his SoCal mansion when Josh pops by looking for help in the Season 2 finale. To find a place that could match up to Troy’s Park City chalet, location scouts looked to the hills of Malibu and chose a home on Mulholland Highway.

Seoul hotel

Once Lindsay, Ashley, Austin, and Ava (Mikaela Hoover) land in Korea, they check into a Seoul hotel for a night of heavily surveilled “good sleep” before their visit to Trochos. Though the exact hotel isn’t specified in the show, these scenes were filmed at the Conrad Hotel in the Yeongdeungpo District.

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