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20s / Casual / Chill / Hookah / TVs
Reviewed by Jasmit N.
"This place is expensive for the quality. It charges $15 per person even if you don’t really want to get anything. Their water is expensive it’s about ..." more
923 Broxton Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
20s / 30s / Anything goes / Burgers
Party Earth Review While the name may evoke images of a genteel tea room and lunching ladies, The Parlor Hollywood is actually a lively neighborhood sports bar that attracts a rowdy crowd of singles and recent college grads. An expansive open floor plan, spacious courtyard, and second bar area off the patio provide plenty of room for the ... more
7250 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90046
30s / 40s / Button-downs / Casual
Reviewed by Daniel K.
"Situated on a strange corner of 8th Street and Armore Avenue in the heart of Korea Town, Taylor's Steakhouse is an old school joint that probably pre- ..." more
3361 West 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90005
20s / 30s / 80s Music / Bar / DJ / Flirty
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 ... more
110 East 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
30s / 40s / Actors / Affluent / Bar
Party Earth Review Classically posh and surprisingly accessible, the enchanting Bar Marmont is a popular haunt for Hollywood denizens of all stripes who love good food and conversation. Just inside, patrons are greeted by a lounge area whose trussed ceilings, skylights, and hanging plants create the feel of an airy outdoor café where everyone ... more
8171 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Bachelorette Parties / Club / DJ
Party Earth Review Located in the long-abandoned building that once housed the Fox Theatre, Playhouse Hollywood is a sprawling, 13,000-square-foot Vegas-style nightclub with a sexy circus theme. Popular with eager young club kids and college students, the impressive high-ceilinged space is dominated by a huge oval bar presided over ... more
6506 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
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)
20s / 30s / 40s / Agents / A-list / Lunch
Party Earth Review A line of waiting valets and an ever-present group of paparazzi greet guests at BOA Steakhouse, one of the Sunset Strip’s trendiest restaurants popular with an upscale clientele of Hollywood execs and A-listers. A bland façade belies the luxurious yet ultramodern décor of the venue’s six ... more
9200 West Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Blazers / Brunch / Couples / Dinner
Reviewed by Sara G.
"My Take: Oliverio in Beverly Hills is a trendy bar, lounge, and restaurant in the Avalon Hotel, with some of the best al fresco dining in the neighbor ..." more
Avalon Hotel
9400 West Olympic Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
30s / 40s / Agents / Ambient / Artists
Party Earth Review Perched high above the west end of the Sunset Strip, the 20,000-square-foot Soho House is a private members-only social club whose elite atmosphere has made it a preferred hangout for celebrities. A stylish clientele from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, and finance step off the private elevator into an elegant reception ... more
9200 West Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
LA may be a fast-paced city, but that doesn’t mean her denizens don’t know how to take a load off, and lounges in Los Angeles are certainly evidence of that. Lounges in LA cover the gamut when it comes to style and price, and almost every major neighborhood will have a relaxed lounge where patrons can shed their jackets and sip fine craft cocktails or barebones bottles of beer.
Hollywood is a great place to find a swanky lounge with lots of scenesters and fashion mavens, while burgeoning Downtown is home to an ever-increasing number of dark dingy dens where couples can snuggle into well-worn couches and fade into the night, as well as stunning rooftops where potential couples can ogle the view as they ogle each other.
Hipsters are known for dominating the lounge scene in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park, but these neighborhoods are also home to plenty of upscale lounges where moneyed professionals can drop serious cash on big bottles as they groove to mellow lounge DJs.
Further west, chill Venice lounges unite beach bums and former hippies with casual yupsters and plenty of out-of-work actors, and all over town the Los Angeles lounge scene continues to remind people that even if the traffic is awful and the glamour of Hollywood is largely a farce, at least there are plenty of LA lounges to secret away into and pretend nothing else matters.