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Featured Bars and Clubs


http://www.thematador.com A massive bar with solid attempts at high-end Mexican food. The queso fundido, melted cheese mixed with chorizo, will make you forsake its Tex-Mex brother forever. More tequila options than you'll be able to handle, so drink wisely! Not into Mexican anything? Watch sports on the many big-screen TVs. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
Up until recently the Maya Inn has operated solely as a Mexican restaurant. And oh, that chicken chimichanga: well seasoned (but not lava-spicy): tender chicken in a deep-fried tortilla with ample salsa, guacamole and sour cream. Thankfully, they've recently added a bar for the thirsty patron. Adorned with flat screens and offering a nice selection of draft beers and hard liquors, the Maya is a great place to check out any variety of games flickering over head. Best of all, the friendly staff, conditioned by years of work in the restaurant biz, treat imbibers like family. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.clubmayan.com Located on the southern end of downtown L.A., this theater plays host to events ranging from Mexican masked wrestling to burlesque to underground hip-hop. Decked out in – unsurprisingly – Mayan themed décor, the venue is L.A.’s solution to any otherwise boring night. Tickets are typically sold in advance as well as at the door. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.mccabes.com Wander through the gee-tars and other stringed things in this one-of-a-kind li'l shrine to live music. The music store opened in 1958 and has been hosting concerts in its back room since the late 1960s, featuring such stellar performers as Lucinda Williams, Sun Ra, They Might Be Giants, Gil Scott-Heron, Ralph Stanley, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Innes, Les Paul, Hubert Selby, Jackie DeShannon, Ali Farka Toure, Tom Waits, Linda & Richard Thompson, Alex Chilton and Emmylou Harris, among many others. Coffee and sweets available; no alcohol. All ages. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.medusaloungela.com This ornate Eastside hideaway offers decor straight out of Harry Potter's Hogwarts Magic Academy: gothic arches, chandeliers, stained glass and wrought-iron everything. But the real magic here since it changed over from German restaurant Lowenbrau Keller has been on the smallish dance floor. Hip DJs and party promoters have discovered the whimsical spot, which also serves food and gigantic guzzlers; we're guessing the glasses are left over from its German pub days. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.barmelodylax.com Located in Westchester on the northern edge of LAX, Melody Bar & Grill is a venerable bar that's been open since 1952. You can actually step outside on the bar's front patio and see jumbo jets passing low overhead as they touch down on one of the airport's runways. Since the 1980s, the club has also been a sports bar, attracting members of the Lakers and Kings, who train nearby. New owners Christian Warren and Bobby Hughes have retained the old spirit of the place while also sprucing up its interior and expanding the quality of its food and drinks. The main room is centered around a long, rectangular bar, which is draped with Christmas lights and faces a cheery stone fireplace. The elegant dining room features ornate hanging lamps, wood-paneled walls, plush leather booths and large, mirror-like windows that look out on the street. Another room has a tiki theme, with two pool tables, back-lit tiki masks, and walls covered in bamboo and tropical long grasses. The aptly named bar hosts regular live-music nights. The full bar specializes in red and white wines, with a healthy selection of traditional beers, while the kitchen serves basic fare like burgers, steaks, salmon and club sandwiches. Ages 21 & over. Street parking. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
The competition for the best karaoke bar in Chinatown is fierce, but if the sign at Melody Lounge trumpeting "Cold Beer and Ham Sandwiches" is not enough to win hearts, the charmingly mistranslated songs (e.g., the John Denver classic "Libyan on a Jet Plane") should be. A literal mom and pop operation – an adorable older couple own the establishment – this is where to go when you want to sing your heart out near downtown. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.themercantilela.com This small wine bar and restaurant is like a traditional European bistro dropped down into the center of modern Hollywood. With more than 50 artisanal cheeses and an ambitious wine list, the Mercantile is for foodies with refined tastes. The menu includes elaborate dishes of charcuterie and small plates with Sobressada Crostini, black kale, marinated anchovies and truffled brioche. Dinners range from exotic grilled cheese sandwiches to smoked trout. The setting is pleasant, with outdoor patio seating for easy people-watching on Sunset Boulevard. Inside, the high-ceiling room is dominated by a tall wine cabinet and wooden furnishings, with large windows giving the narrow place an airier, more open feel. They're so serious about cheese here that Mercantile presents a regular evening of grilled-cheese experiments every Saturday. Street parking. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
Located in the basement vault of the former Los Angeles Trust and Savings Building, Mercury Liquors is a dungeon of a bar. Guests enter through a round, foot-thick safe door where a darkly lit, yet classy bar awaits them. The room maintains much of the building's 1912 architecture. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.themezzbar.com Located inside the grand Downtown Deco quarters of the 104-year-old Alexandria Hotel, the Mezz is a speakeasy-style nightclub showcasing jazz, blues, burlesque, comedy and random, retro-themed amusements. With low ceilings, lower (mostly red) lighting, and some of the lowest-priced drinks in the area, this underground-feeling room provides an exquisite backdrop. The aforementioned ceiling has shimmering chandeliers and ornate moldings and details. The predominantly artsy crowd (especially during Downtown's circuslike Artwalk, which happens on the streets right outside) appreciates both its style and its history. The hotel itself is said to be haunted even though it now also houses a trendy pub (Gorbals, from Top Chef winner Ilan Hall) and functions as an apartment building. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.mickys.com In the heart of Boy's Town, Micky's caters to a mostly male crowd: Entertainment includes half-nude buff men, drag queens galore and blaring techno music. In addition to hot bods, they've got free appetizers on Friday afternoons and plenty of drink deals. After dancing those calories away, there's braised short rib tacos, pizza, pasta carbonera, and mango salad for the health conscious. It's like they say - on Micky's website anyway - "Drink triple. Dance Double. Act Single!" Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.themilkshop.com The first thing you should know about Milk, Bret Thompson’s dairy-intensive cafe in the Art Deco space that used to house Richard Tyler’s atelier, is that it doesn’t actually serve milk, at least not cold, frothy and unmodified in a glass, the way that some of the best ice cream places in Italy and Spain tend to do. (There are a few glass bottles of Broguieres in the takeout case, and ice-blended milk flavored with chocolate or bitter caramel.) I had been driving past the building site for months, fantasizing about Straus, Oberweis and Ronnybrook on tap, varietal tastings pitting Holstein against Jersey, and possibly a selection of exotic milks, like goat, sheep and buffalo. Instead, the clean, white cafe serves pastries that run the gamut from garish, Smurf-colored blue velvet cakes; crunchy pressed sandwiches — one of prosciutto, pecorino and red bliss potatoes was especially good — and house-made ice cream. When I brought three dozen Milkys into the office the other day, they drew crowds like the Pied Piper. There are ice cream cones too, of course, and milky hot chocolate. But the dish that impressed me the most was a soup of pureed farmers market cauliflower flavored with brown butter and currants, a soup at least one colleague found even more compelling than a toffee Milky. To each her own, I say. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
