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Featured Bars and Clubs


http://www.catalinahotspots.com/el_galleon/index.asp This popular seaside bar and restaurant is really several places in one. Located just steps from the beach along Avalon Harbor on Catalina Island, El Galleon is a big tourist draw with its airy patio and come-as-you-are, welcoming vibe. With several big-screen TVs (including a 65-inch plasma HD set), the restaurant also doubles as a hardcore sports bar that brings in a crowd of loyal locals, especially in the late afternoons and evenings, when the joint turns into a hopping karaoke bar. There's also a bluesy, jazzy feel to the place, with Mardi Gras beads dangling from ornate chandeliers, and artwork and figurines of legendary musicians evoking New Orleans. The upstairs mezzanine is used as banquet room and offers a more private respite from the hubbub in the main room. On top of all that, the bar serves a wide selection of German beers and fine European wines, as well as Bloody Marys that are infused with milk from Catalina's herd of wild buffalo. Not to be outdone, the restaurant proffers a wonderful mix of tropical specialties (such as the applewood-smoked luau plum barbecue ribs), continental fare (Polish kielbasa) and, not surprisingly, given El Galleon's beachfront setting, a wide range of seafood, including shrimp cocktails, oysters and French-fried calamari. Happy hour runs from 3 to 6 p.m. daily. All ages. Open daily. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.elpradobar.com This wine bar's post across the street from the Echo (and the fact that it shares the same owner) isn't the only reason El Prado has fast become hipster central. The constantly changing wine and beer list is exceptional, the warm, amber-lit look of the place is simple yet stylish, and the bartenders play groovy jams (from a turntable behind the bar). Yeah, it's hip, but it's sophisticated hip, not grungester hip like other bars in the area (Gold Room, Little Joy, etc.). Brick, wood and chalkboard walls enclose the place, and the long wood bar sees pop-in drinkers and all-night Echo Park seat-parkers alike. Cheese plates and other light pairing-appropriate bites are available. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.theelrey.com Located on the Miracle Mile in the Mid-Wilshire district, the El Rey is indeed something of an architectural miracle. Designed by the noted architect Clifford A. Balch in 1936, the art deco venue boasts a Streamline Moderne design, with sleek contours and a classically elegant exterior and interior. For more than 60 years, it was used mainly as a movie theater, but in 1994 it was reconfigured as a live-music concert hall. Since then, the room, which holds about 700 people, has hosted such diverse musicians as Iggy Pop, Neko Case, Radio Birdman, Wanda Jackson & Jack White, Buzzcocks, the Dresden Dolls, Wire, Emmylou Harris, Mission of Burma and the Avengers. An upstairs VIP balcony looks down over the grand ballroom, which is sided by plush red walls and illuminated by several gigantic glass chandeliers. The all-ages venue usually features standing-room admission, with a few booths located along the sides. The ballroom has a full bar, and another full bar is based in the venue's fancy art deco lobby, which includes a dramatic staircase that leads to the balcony. Street parking, plus paid parking in a lot across the street. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.eleven.la A glossy gay hot spot in the former Larrabee Sound Studios, part night club and part restaurant, Eleven is a two-story, spacious and sleekly designed West Hollywood location with colorful tile-lined walls. The food is primarily of the bar - or American comfort - variety. You'll find items like a hamburger, fish-and-chips, prime rib, nachos and Cobb salad. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.elitechineserestaurant.com The sharpest Chinese seafood house in town at the moment is Elite, which used to be the local branch of a Chinese-owned chain called New Concept, and which still serves a few of the funkier dishes from that restaurant, including suckling pig with foie gras, fried prawns served in a bed of oatmeal flakes, and papaya salad with goose webs. It can certainly be the most expensive Chinese restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley - its banquet menu includes options costing up to $2,288 for a table of 10 - but unlike its competitors, it is too intimate to land the enormous wedding-banquet bookings, which means that you can probably land a seat even around the time of Chinese New Year, and that you are unlikely to be subjected to endless rounds of bridesmaid karaoke. There are enough unsustainable choices on the seafood menu to make a Heal the Bay member weep salty, salty tears. Yet the the roast squab has skin as delicately crunchy as any Beijing duck. The Shunde-style soup of seafood with minced ham and bits of bitter melon is as tautly balanced as the exhaust note of a Lamborghini. The balls of chopped shrimp steamed in nets of shredded turnip and garnished with their own roe - the essence of the sea captured. And the morning dim sum breakfasts, ordered from menus instead of carts, are divine. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.emberofanaheim.com An oasis of visually appealing modern design in the midst of a seemingly random automotive district in Anaheim. On the up-side, Ember Cafe & Music Club supplies a classy atmosphere with ample room to move on the dance floor. The down-side is the usual $20 cover fee usually reserved for Los Angeles clubs and the mandatory valet parking at the door. If you managed to cope with those two buzz kills, this club offers a sleek environment with relatively cheap drinks where you can comfortable kick back with a gang of friends and dance the night away. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
California artist Frank Bowers was obviously inspired by the Embers moniker. His seductive oil works of topless Hollywood starlets as she-devils in a fiery underworld are everywhere here (two big pieces smolder behind the bar and individual paintings above each booth). Marilyn Monroe, Kirk Douglas, Natalie Wood, Jayne Mansfield and Rock Hudson are all depicted on the walls in suggestive poses that recall old pulp fiction paperback novel covers. The kitschy/sexy art is the main draw, but the Embers also has everything a dive aficionado could desire: extremely comfortable worn-in leather booths, pool tables for 50 cents and one of those "adults only" souvenir dispensers in the bathroom (four quarters yields tiny booklets filled with sex positions or stickers with dirty jokes). Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.espnzone.com/anaheim/ Of course sports junkies will find what they're looking for at ESPN Zone. The dozens of televisions throughout the bar room (and restrooms) showing various games leave no room for spectator-related withdrawal. Bear in mind, this is a sanitized version of a sports bar: shots are impeccably measured and poured - and get too rowdy, and you're likely to get the bum's rush given the bum's rush. The service is quick and attentive, quite a feat considering the bartenders serve beyond the the bar into the often-packed restaurant. It's the kind of place you can take the wife and kids without complaint, so long as you keep the former occupied with a hearty glass of sangria and the rug rats can run free in the arcade. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
Serving Long Beach's LGBT community, the Executive Suite mixes up stiff drinks from a full bar as well as a modest offering of brews. Though the interior decor is a little inconsistent: rustic tiki masks and grass lined bar tops meet modern glass tiles and a sleek wood floor— it just adds to this spot's charm. Distractions include a jukebox spinning hip hop and pop as well as two pool tables. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
