Bars and Clubs in Los Angeles

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Bar Chloe
20s / 30s / 80s Music / After Work / Bar / Birthday Parties / Board Games / Burgers / Cocktail Lovers / Couples / DJ / Dancing / French Food / Happy Hour / Indie / Intimate / Laid back / Locals / Lounge / Mixology / Preppy / Rock / Sandwiches / Small Plates / Sophisticated / Soul / Specialty Cocktails / Well-heeled / Young Professionals / iPod Playlist
Party Earth Review One of the west side’s most intimate hideaways, Bar Chloe is a study in relaxed opulence whose glamorous pre-war Paris vibe attracts a well-heeled but laid-back clientele. Velvet drapes, damask wallpaper, smoky antique mirrors, and Oriental wall panels provide a luxurious backdrop for the small circles of after-work business ... read full review of Bar Chloe
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O'Brien's Irish Pub & Restaurant (Main Street)
20s / Acoustic / Bar Food / Bars / Baseball Caps / Beer / Brunch / Burgers / Business Types / Button-downs / Casual / Celtic / Comedy / Country / Dinner / Dog Friendly / Festive / Frat Guys / Fun-loving / Groups / Happy Hour / Irish / Irish Food / Jeans / Karaoke / Late 30s / Live Band / Live Music / Locals / Lunch / No cover charge / Outdoor Area / Party / Patio / Rock / Rowdy / Rugby / Sandwiches / Shorts / Ska / Skirts / Sports / Sports Fans / Tank Tops / Theme Nights / T-shirts / TVs / Whiskey / Young Professionals / Pub / Restaurant / Sports Bar

Party Earth Review No matter the time, ’tis standard at O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Restaurant to find live Celtic beats blazin’ and a raucous young crowd knee-deep in Guinness and banger sandwiches. Sunny Santa Monica afternoons – all 360 of them a year – lure local business types and casual shoppers to the small corner patio, where they indulge ... more
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Wurstküche (Venice)
20s / 30s / Ambient Electronic / Baseball Caps / Beer / Beer Hall / Beer Lovers / Belgian Beer / Blouses / Bratwurst / Button-downs / Casual / Club Kids / Couples / Crowded / DJ / DJ / Date Place / Dinner / Dresses / Electronic / Expats / Family / Funky House / German Beer / German Food / Hippies / Hipster / Hot Dogs / House / Indie / Jam Packed / Jeans / Locals / Long Lines / Lunch / Pub Crawlers / Restaurant / Shorts / Students / T-shirts / Tourists / Trendy Casual / Vegetarian Food

Party Earth Review Fans of specialty sausage and suds purveyor Wurstküche have a tendency to form lines down the sidewalk at the Downtown location, so it’s hardly a surprise that the same thing happens at its sister spot worlds away in Venice. And much like at the original, patrons at this “sausage kitchen” feed on everything from traditional ... more
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Caffé Brass Monkey
Actors / After Work / Artsy / Bar Food / Birthday Parties / Blue Collar / Boisterous / Budget-friendly / Burgers / Button-downs / Dance Floor / Dancing / Flirty / Good for Groups / Groups / Jeans and T-Shirt / Karaoke / Musicians / Rowdy / Specialty Cocktails / TVs / Young Professionals / Occasional Celebrity / Karaoke Bar

Party Earth Review Possibly the wildest karaoke bar in LA, Caffé Brass Monkey is a magnet for rambunctious spotlight hoggers who love to get wasted and belt out 80s power ballads. Packed with scruffy artsy types and yuppies, this dimly-lit den with its low slanted ceiling, which evokes a cozy ski lodge atmosphere, features a layout that ensures ... more
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The Association
20s / 30s / 80s Music / Bar / Button-downs / DJ / Flirty / Happy Hour / High Heels / Hipster / Jeans / Locals / Lounge / Skirts / Snack Food / Young Professionals
Party Earth Review With an entrance down a flight of stairs to the basement of a residential loft building – and marked only by a black door adorned with a brass lion’s-head knocker – The Association is a discreet little hideaway perfect for furtive meetings and romantic rendezvous. An understated but stylish décor of glass chandeliers, brown ... read full review of The Association
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Bar Stella
30s / 40s / Artsy / Bar / Blazers / Blouses / Bohemian / Button-downs / Chill / Cocktails / Couples / Creative / Date Place / Designer Jeans / Expensive / Flannel Shirts / French Pop / Friendly / Groups / Hipster / Hipster / Industry Types / Laid back / Locals / Lounge / Martinis / Mid 20s / Outdoor Area / Patio / Romantic / Skirts / Trendy Casual / Trendy Crowd / Well-heeled / Yupster

Party Earth Review Housed in a boutique clothing store that formerly fronted haute French bistro Cafe Stella, Bar Stella adds a Moroccan-styled retreat to this already popular slice of Paris, offering patrons an array of classic cocktails to wash down their moules frites. Accessed down a small hallway that used to dead-end at the Cafe’s ... more
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Smog Cutter
20s / Anything goes / Artists / Cash Only / Classic Rock / Creative / Dive / Dive Bar / Early 30s / Flannel Shirts / Hipster / Hipster Style / Jeans and T-Shirt / Jukebox / Karaoke / Karaoke Bar / Locals / Pool (Billiards) / Skinny Jeans / Young Professionals

Party Earth Review Characterized by cranky bartenders and a hipster clientele, the offbeat Smog Cutter is a potent mix of one part karaoke, two parts dive, and eight parts attitude. The place is all but dead on weeknights when just a smattering of locals shows up to watch sports, but on weekends, this one-room watering hole is a drunken singing ... more
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Hyde Lounge (West Hollywood)
20s / A-list / Actors / Affluent / Alternative Rock / Bar / Bottle Service / Button-downs / Celebrities / Club / Cocktail Dress / Cocktails / DJ / Dance / Dance Floor / Dancing / Dinner / Entertainment Professionals / Exclusive / Fashion Forward / Fashion Types / Finance Types / Good Looking / High End / High End / Exclusive / High Heels / In crowd / Jam Packed / Late 30s / Long Lines / Lounge / Models / Old School / Outdoor Area / Rap / Sandwiches / Scenester / See and Be Seen / Skinny Jeans / Slacks / Small Plates / Smoking Area / Specialty Cocktails / Top 40 / Tough Door / Valet Parking / Wear Your Finest / Well-heeled / Young Professionals

Party Earth Review The Hyde brand has always been a mark of exclusivity, and the newly redesigned Hyde Lounge doesn’t buck that trend. A small club with a big following, the venue is usually besieged by paparazzi who huddle outside waiting to photograph celebrities as they come and go, and the strength of the velvet rope might as well be ... more
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The most visible social scene in LA undeniably revolves around the high-end nightlife: the famous and exclusive bars and clubs in Los Angeles. The in-crowd is deeply intertwined with the entertainment industry, and nowhere is this more evident than in Hollywood, with its ever-present lines of stunning wannabe stars waiting outside the swanky clubs and lounges, and the snap-happy paparazzi waiting for short-skirted celebs to step out of their Escalades.

Hot one minute and cold the next, the LA bars and clubs can be as fickle as the A-listers who frequent them. To entice these leggy blonde starlets, each club attempts to outdo its competition with kitschy themes, ostentatious décor, impenetrable access, and enough idolatrous fawning to keep them coming back.

LA’s pre-club scene is equally exclusive, as high-powered agents and producers talk shop at sceney Beverly Hills and Sunset Strip hotspots and bars with tight reservation-only policies and the steep price tags that come with them.

Yes, it pays to be famous, wealthy, and beautiful in LA’s gilt-edged scene, and those with deep pockets and even deeper connections will find the tall, tanned, and beautiful just beyond the iron-clad velvet ropes, where one can dance with a Kardashian one minute and do shots with Jeremy Piven the next, or catch a glimpse of Hollywood dealmakers green-lighting the next hot movie franchise.

Although the Hollywood entertainment scene garners the most tabloid attention, the rest of LA’s multifaceted nightlife is nothing to be scoffed at. With a variety of options stretching from the ocean to Downtown, Los Angeles offers inventive cocktail dens, speakeasy watering holes, club/lounge hybrids, Irish pubs, and lazy beachside bars.

In recent years, the mixology and craft beer scene has blown up in Downtown, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz, where trendsetting hipsters rub elbows with grizzled regulars over Dark & Stormys and Old Fashioneds, while beach bums, yuppies and divorcées congregate down by the water with a laid-back, anything-goes attitude that makes every day feel like a weekend.

Hitting a combination of all these types of venues in one night may require traveling across the city, but taking advantage of LA’s less stereotypical offerings is well worth the effort.

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Lucas

Sports? Pub crawls? Rowdy bars? Good beer? Then check out these suggestions from Lucas:

901 Bar & Grill

40s / Bar Food

Q's Billiard Club

20s / 30s

Saddle Ranch Chop House ...

All Types / Anything goes

Mom's Bar & Lounge

20s / 30s

Lucas Likes: Beer Sports Rowdy Casual Anything goes Bar Flirty
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Adriana

Exclusive hotspots? Chic crowds? Bottle service? Posh shopping? Then check out these suggestions from Adriana:

The Abbey Food & Bar

20s / 30s

The Spare Room

20s / 30s

Soho House

30s / 40s

Bagatelle

30s / 40s

Adriana Likes: Exclusive Nightclub Fashion Forward Shopping Jetsetter Lounge Hotel Bar High End / Exclusive
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Jonah

Eclectic crowds? Authentic bars? Live music? Nothing mainstream? Then check out these suggestions from Jonah:

Troubadour

20s / 30s

Largo at the Coronet

Acoustic / After Work

Harvard & Stone

20s / 30s

Redwood Bar and Grill

20s / Artists

Jonah Likes: Live Music Eclectic Indie Alternative Non-mainstream Laid back Conversational Creative / Art / Music Types
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Emma

Amazing drink deals? Unpretentious crowds? Karaoke with friends? Dancing all night? Then check out these suggestions from Emma:

Bar Lubitsch

20s / 30s

UCB Theatre (Upright Cit...

20s / 30s

The Bigfoot Lodge

20s / 30s

Caffé Brass Monkey

Actors / After Work

Emma Likes: Happy Hour Culture Dancing Lively Budget-friendly Sightseeing Party Groups
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