LA lounges and bars: Where to drink in Los Angeles
From Irish bars and cocktail lounges to rooftop bars and beachside dives, your where-to-drink guide to LA lounges and bars.
LA lounges and bars: Thirsty Crow Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
From craft brews in Los Feliz to hand-crafted whiskey cocktails in Silver Lake, LA's lounges and bars are as varied as its neighborhoods. Navigate the city's bar scene with your cheat sheet of where to drink now. Bottoms up!
2012 LA bar profiles
Shorebar
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
If Cape Cod was the epicenter of craft cocktails, Shorebar would be its premier yacht club.
- Santa Monica
Corner Door
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Corner Door feels like a neighborhood place where everybody knows—or should know—your name.
- Culver City
Bar Covell
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Discover obscure wines and stellar craft brews at this neighborhood bar in Los Feliz.
- Los Feliz
Mohawk Bend
- Rated as: 3/5
The sprawling Echo Park bar/restaurant offers 72 beers on tap—all from California brewers—and vegan bites to share.
- Echo Park
Thirsty Crow
- Rated as: 3/5
The 1933 Group's Sunset Blvd saloon in Silver Lake is where whiskey lovers like to call home.
- Silver Lake
Harvard & Stone
- Rated as: 3/5
The draw at this Thai Town bar is live music—mostly blues and rock 'n' roll—and American-made craft cocktails.
- Hollywood
- Culver City
Pour Vous
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Enter a jazz-age Parisian salon that's all-class in Hollywood.
- Hollywood
Las Perlas
- Rated as: 2/5
Mexican kitsch meets psychedelic rabbit murals at this tequila and mescal den.
- Downtown
- Silver Lake
Library Bar at The Roosevelt Hotel
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
The books are all in the mind at the Roosevelt Hotel's "omakase-style cocktail den" dedicated to cocktail perfection.
- Hollywood
Oldfields Liquor Room
- Rated as: 2/5
A subdued, neighborhood-bar experience complete with a throwback look and cocktails.
- West Los Angeles
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