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Messhall Kitchen

20s / 30s / Affluent Hipsters / TVs

Reviewed by Justina S.

"If you’ve ever wanted to experience summer camp without the bugs, allergy-inducing foliage and long hikes, Messhall is your place. Located on Los Feli ..." more

4500 Los Feliz Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027

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Bar Centro at the SLS Beverly Hills

30s / Button-downs / Cocktails

Party Earth Review Featuring a fantastical design by Philippe Starck and an equally imaginative food and cocktail menu by renowned chef José Andrés, Bar Centro is a playground for the senses that foodies and cocktail lovers won’t want to miss. A long center table illuminated to resemble a catwalk brings the trendy ... more

SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills
465 South La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048

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Caña Rum Bar

Casual / Chill / Cocktail Lovers

714 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90015

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The Daily Pint

20s / 30s / 40s / 80s Music / Casual

Party Earth Review With a whiskey list running more than five hundred options deep, a daily rotation of craft beers, and more barroom games than a traveling carnival, The Daily Pint attracts fun lovers of every stripe in the mood for serious drinking and laid-back fun. Chilled-out West Siders, college students, and thirty-something whiskey ... more

2310 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405

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The Roger Room

20s / 30s / 60s Soul / Actors / Bar

Party Earth Review Bright neon signage from an old psychic parlor is the only thing that marks the entrance to The Roger Room, an intimate modern speakeasy where a cool and artsy clientele gathers for delicious artisanal cocktails. Just beyond the dark curtains, patrons will find a dim one-room bar with a turn-of-the-century dé ... more

370 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048

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Sassafras

Cocktail Bar

Reviewed by Dylan R.

"I first visited Sassafras soon after moving to Hollywood several months ago and was quite taken from the get go. The decor was warm and inviting, whi ..." more

1233 North Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90038

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The Bazaar By José Andrés

30s / 40s / Ambient / Blazers / Dinner

Reviewed by Christie M.

"If you're anything like me you hate the overcrowded, overpriced, pretentious nature of most clubs in LA. That being said you can only go to the great ..." more

SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills
465 South La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048

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Tortilla Republic

20s / 30s / Beer / Blouses / Brunch / DJ

Reviewed by Gerard Nash G.

"Everything about this place was beyond my expectations. The food, the music, and the overall vibe of the restaurant was beyond extraordinary. I loved ..." more

616 North Robertson Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

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Bar Lubitsch

20s / 30s / 80s Music / 90s Music / DJ

Party Earth Review A communist era-inspired lounge, Bar Lubitsch fills up on the weekends when fun-loving, twenty-something professionals turn up to let their hair down on the dance floor. Kitschy yet classy, the space consists of three distinct areas, including an ivied patio where smokers gather to mingle and a front room whose red ... more

7702 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046

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The Writer's Room

Absinthe / Actors / Artsy / Chill / DJ

Party Earth Review Formerly the back room of famed restaurant Musso & Frank, where early-century scribes like Hemingway and Fitzgerald sipped swill and poured literary gold into their suds-stained notebooks, The Writer’s Room may be that one Hollywood speakeasy with legit ties to the era it claims to represent. Sherlockian scenesters know ... more

6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028
(entrance around back)

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Liquid Kitty

After Work / Budget-friendly

Reviewed by Chad F.

"Liquid Kitty on Pico near Fox is an awesome dive bar. It's not just dark...it's dark-dark. Anything goes here. It's a place you go to drink when yo ..." more

11780 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064

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The Varnish

20s / 30s / 40s / After Work / Artsy

Party Earth Review Marked only by a small drawing of a cocktail, the discreet entrance to The Varnish at the back of Cole’s restaurant lends an air of secrecy and forbidden frolicking to this updated speakeasy in downtown LA. A tiny one-room haven catering to a clientele of cool east-siders, after-work types, and loyal regulars, the venue ... more

118 East 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014

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LA Cocktail Bars Overview

Messhall Kitchen - American Restaurant | Cocktail Bar | Oyster Bar in LA

Sometimes you just want a cheap beer, but other times you want a high-end artisanal drink made with exotic bitters and the souls of unicorns, and that’s where Los Angeles cocktail bars come into play.

It won’t be hard to get a stellar drink in this town, as dedicated cocktail bars in LA can be found in most neighborhoods, from hipster-heavy but still gritty Echo Park to the glitzy expanse of Beverly Hills.

Keep in mind that going to an LA cocktail bar probably means you’re going to shell out more money than you would at the average dive, but the payout can be enjoying a drink that you’d never be able to get anywhere else.

Thirsty Crow over in Silver Lake is a homey neighborhood bar whose saloon atmosphere has made it a destination for bourbon lovers from all over the city, but patrons also know to show up for the extensive selection of handcrafted cocktails. Whiskey-lover’s paradise Seven Grand in Downtown, Los Angeles attracts an upscale clientele of both young professionals and artsy types looking to sample the venue’s three-hundred top-shelf whiskeys, or challenge the knowledgeable mixologists to incorporate one (or more of) into a delectable craft cocktail.

The White Horse Inn Cocktail Lounge in Hollywood, meanwhile, is a dive in the truest sense – nothing says hole-in-the-wall quite like free cheese puffs and a location on the first floor of a Super 8 Motel – but the joint manages to dole up some surprisingly good cocktail nonetheless.

From old-school speakeasies like Oldfield’s Liquor Room in Culver City to upscale lounges like Hemingway’s in Hollywood, cocktail bars in Los Angeles keep the mixes flowing and the shakers rattling all over town.