Best bars in Los Angeles

From dive bars to hotel bars and cocktail bars to wine bars, here's your guide to drinking at the best bars in Los Angeles. Edited by Katherine Kims

  • Photograph: Courtesy High at the Hotel Erwin

    Best bars in Los Angeles: High Rooftop Lounge at the Hotel Erwin

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Perch

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: the Colonial Wine Bar

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Le Catacomber at Pour Vous

  • Photograph: Jakob N. Layman

    Best bars in Los Angles: Pour Vous

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    Bar Covell

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    Bar Covell

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    Tiki-Ti

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Seriously Dangerous at Library Bar at the Roosevelt Hollywood

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Shorebar

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Blind Barber

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Culver Hotel

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: the Club Bar at Peninsula Beverly Hills

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Skybar at Mondrian Hotel

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Thompson Beverly Hills

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Standard Downtown

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: Shutters on the Beach

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    Best bars in Los Angeles: the Golden Gopher

Photograph: Courtesy High at the Hotel Erwin

Best bars in Los Angeles: High Rooftop Lounge at the Hotel Erwin

Whether you want a PBR at an Eastside dive bar, seek an expertly-made Old Fashioned at a swank cocktail bar or crave drinks with a view, we've tippled and quaffed at the city's watering holes to give you the best bars in Los Angeles.


 


Best bars

Shutters

Best hotel bars

Tiki-Ti

Best dive bars

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