Bars
Your guide to bars and drinking in Los Angeles, including bar reviews, new bar openings, sports bars, wine bars, and LA's best bartenders and cocktails.
- Bar review: The Hudson
- Summer's cocktails + playlist
- Best whiskey bars in LA
- Bar review: The Writer's Room
- Best beer bars in LA
Bar review: The Hudson
A complete remodel reveals a fresh feel and upgrades galore.Rated as: 4/5
Summer's cocktails + playlist
Chill out with these drink + song pairings from our favorite bars.
Best whiskey bars in LA
Check out LA's top selection of bourbon, Scotch and whiskeys at these top ten bars.
Bar review: The Writer's Room
Old Hollywood is alive and well among the pretty, young things at the Writer's Room.Rated as: 3/5
Best beer bars in LA
From biergartens to brew-pubs, here are LA's best beer bars for local and international craft brews.
Bars in Hollywood & West Hollywood
The Pikey
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
This is the Hollywood good old boy’s pub you’ve been waiting for.
- Hollywood
Sassafras
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
The barrel-aged cocktail is front and center at Sassafras, a throwback to the Old South.
- Hollywood
Pour Vous
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Mark and Jonnie Houston bring all-class to Melrose Avenue with this jazz-age Parisian salon.
- Hollywood
Harvard & Stone
- Price band: 2/4
Come dressed for live music, American craft cocktails and the back R&D Bar's bespoke cocktails.
- Hollywood
Bars on the Eastside
Little Joy Cocktails
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
A revamped and refurbished former dive bar brings joie de vivre to Echo Park.
- Echo Park
The Black Cat
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The upscale, polished gastropub makes its debut courtesy the team behind the Village Idiot.
- Silver Lake
The Hermosillo
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Find local craft beer and dozens of small-production wines by the glass at this neighborhood watering hole.
- Highland Park
- Highland Park
Bar Covell
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Candles and dim Edison bulbs illuminate a well-dressed neighborhood crowd of food and wine buffs in Hollywood.
- Hollywood
Bar Stella
- Price band: 3/4
Café Stella mix craft cocktails in a Baja-Californian guesthouse decked in Caribbean-style furniture.
- Silver Lake
Mohawk Bend
- Price band: 2/4
Beer enthusiasts can choose from 72 California beers on tap at this vegan-friendly gasto pub in Echo Park.
- Echo Park
Thirsty Crow
- Price band: 2/4
Veterans of the city's cocktail scene 1933 Group run this Sunset Blvd saloon that whiskey lovers like to call home.
- Silver Lake
Bars on the Westside
Shorebar
- Price band: 2/4
If Cape Cod was the epicenter of craft cocktails, Shorebar would be its premier yacht club.
- Santa Monica
Corner Door
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Corner Door feels like a neighborhood place where everybody knows—or should know—your name.
- Culver City
- Culver City
Blind Barber
- Price band: 2/4
Joshua Boyd, Adam Kirsch and Jeff Laub take their NYC barbershop/cocktail show to Culver City.
- Culver City
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