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http://www.backstageculvercity.com There's something about Backstage - which has stood directly across the street from Sony Studios for over 70 years- that begs for hell-raising. Comfortable and roomy, but often packed, strangers become friends pretty quickly here, especially when the scene is amped by entertainment (karaoke Thursday-Saturday and Wednesday's house band King Chris and the Groove Thang). Super-fattening bar food (garlic fries, mac n' cheese, burgers, wings), an authentic black and white photo booth, pool tables, multiple TV screens and cool art (Jimi, Elvis, Clint and Cash) give this one a certain ballsy-ness, but it's the booze concoctions -"Culver City Slut" (Stoli Vanilla, Kahlua, Coke and Cream) and the "Blowjob" shot- that inspire the real bad behavior. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.carbonla.com Culver City isn't usually cited as one of the funkiest place in Los Angeles, but the Monday night Funkmosphere party at Carbon on Venice Boulevard begs to differ. Resident funk master Dam-Funk has been laying deep funk cuts at Carbon since the middle of the last decade, and always with no cover, no doorman, and no signs of slowing down. Never mind that he's probably been spinning since before most of the crowd packed around him learned how to dance. If the whole place is the size of a shoebox, then the dance floor at Carbon isn't much bigger than a few footprints tucked into one corner, yet nobody seems to mind. The beer is reasonable, the drinks are stiff and the sweat pours freely from a young midweek crowd that's not afraid to mix it up while the whole place gets down. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.cinemabar.net Touted as "the world's smallest honky-tonk," this postage-stamp-size tavern is one of the oldest bars in Culver City. Over the decades, its tiny stage has hosted some big country, Americana, folk and roots acts. While the intimate room is most often associated with such country-rocking regulars as Rick Shea, the Dustbowl Revival, Randy Weeks, the Groovy Rednecks, Jaimi Shuey, Tony Gilkyson, Mike Stinson and I See Hawks in L.A., the booking policy also encompasses power-pop mavens like Anny Celsi and Ben Vaughn and freakier bands like Finland Station and Neighborhood Bullies. More than anything else, though, this neighborhood bar has a friendly vibe and an unpretentious atmosphere with its cheery Christmas lights, wood paneling, vintage photos of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, and a jukebox that's stacked with classic country oldies. A large-screen television is often tuned to sports, and there's an open-air back patio for smoking. Live shows occur every night, and there's never a cover. Full bar. Ages 21 & over. Street parking. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
Take note, the more interesting Cozy customers cluster at this Culver City dive in daylight. The bar opens at 6 a.m. and even this early, there's a crowd. Cozy is its crowd; it has a Cheers-like atmosphere and everyone really does seem to know everyone's name. 8x10s above the otherwise nondescript wood-paneled bar display the most familiar cast of characters (many with some kind of fish they caught), while on the opposite wall, four prominently placed caricature drawings - the kind artists do on the street - detail one customer's trip to Cabo. There are some nonhuman amusements, too: the shuffleboard game which takes up the center of the room, the pool tables (which seem to get some shark action with many players bringing their own cues), old time rock & roll and blues on the jukester, and Cozy's sneaky rear exit to its parking lot. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
El Baron in Culver City is a pupuseria with a night club problem. See, the steaming rounds of freshly fried masa, pushed to the limit inside with pork skins, cheese, loroco and more, are among the better versions you'll find west of the 101. But just behind the simple tables and Tupperware containers full of salsa is a full-on homemade nightclub. The dance floor isn't much bigger than a living room and the cheeky lasers, strobes and neon beams will have you believing you stumbled into a quinceañera dance party at someone's house. And you're not far off, considering the upbeat music selection with eggaeton influences and the chatty uncles who like to hang at the edge of the scene. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.fordsfillingstation.net Ford's, whose chef-owner is Benjamin Ford, is a bar that happens to have ambitious, organic food as opposed to a restaurant that happens to have a bar attached, a gastropub where you can enjoy pretty decent cooking while being bounced around like a pachinko ball. If you manage to power your way to a barstool or to an actual table, you will find most of the usual Los Angeles gastropub classics. If you like the fried Ipswich clams at Jar, you will probably like Ford's rudely indelicate version. There is a hamburger tricked out with blue cheese and an onion compote, the requisite butter-lettuce salad with bacon, and a decent selection of cheeses and meats, some of them procured from Armandino Batali in Seattle, to help down the wine. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.industrycafeandjazz.com This cozy cafe and restaurant is located in the heart of Culver City's revitalized downtown area. While the restaurant offers nourishing Ethiopian cuisine, the cafe hosts some of the more adventurous live jazz combos in town. The menu blends East African specialties like doro wat and injera bread with such down-home Southern staples as collard greens, candied yams, corn bread, and red beans & rice. The bar serves beer and wine, with half-price specials during happy hour on Mondays through Fridays from 3 to 7 p.m. The walls are lined with fiery, colorful artwork, providing a suitably festive backdrop to the jazz musicians who gather on the club's small stage. By day, it's an airy cafe, but at night the lights are turned down low for a more intimate and romantic concert experience. Hip-hop and poetry events are also frequently scheduled at this homey venue. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.joxerdalysirishpub.com Things might get loud and raucous in this spacious, 40-year-old bar and grill (especially during big sporting events) but it never gets too unruly, thanks to the room's regulars: off-duty cops and firefighters. Law enforcement patches, newspaper clippings and handwritten notes and signs about L.A.'s finest adorn the walls, and the front end of a CHP bike protrudes from the main front wall. A life-size statue of a firefighter and a wall devoted to 9/11 round out the decor. With its sports and man-in-uniform focus, vast beer selection and pub grub, Joxer Daly's is definitely male-geared, but the female waitresses and amenity-stocked ladies' room balance things out, and nights featuring entertainment (karaoke, bluesy and classic-rock bar bands) turn this blue-collar pub into a veritable nightclub. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
After a radical overhaul, the bar formerly known as Saints and Sinners reopened, in October 2011 as Oldfield's Liquor Room. Same owners, very different vibe. It now feels less like a1990s-esque party bar and more like a vintage-y, low-key cocktail hangout. Compared to Little Cave, Thirsty Crow and both locations of The Bigfoot Lodge (Culver City and Atwater Village), Oldfield's is, by far, the least themed of the 1933 Group's bars. Nominally inspired by Barney Oldfield, a famous speed racer of the 1900s, Oldfield's has the calmness of pale white tiles, a lovely bar that curves prominently into the main room without dominating it and a small backroom with a handful of tables. There's still enough of the "neighborhood watering hole" vibe, especially in the early evening, to make it a palatable happy hour destination for locals, but it feels snazzy enough for date night. If you want beer, you have less than a dozen options from which to choose, though they're all pretty good, like Unibroue's Blanche de Chambly (on tap) and Franziskaner's Weissber. The wine selection is even more limited. But if you've come to Oldfield's, you've come for the cocktails. They're solid, well above average, though not among L.A.'s best. At $10-12 apiece, they're also a couple bucks cheaper than at most of the city's high-end cocktails bars. For the adventurous drinker always looking for a new cocktail fix, The Oakshade is a chic, fantastic little number: dark amber in color with nutty undertones and rich chocolatey flavor courtesy of chocolate chili bitters. The Dauntless, though it's served in a tall, heavy pilsner glass, has a tart, fizzy feel thanks to Fever Tree's ginger beer and fresh lime juice, which cuts the Poire Williams, a pear liqueur. The only food are pre-made sandwiches created by chef Chester Hastings, author of "The Cheesemonger's Kitchen." The best one is the ham and cheese made with Fra' Mani ham and just the right amount of black cherry jam. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
http://www.cafeugo.com Adjacent to Ugo retaurant, this is a wine bar with training wheels, a place where you can try Chateauneuf de Pape or Puligny Montrachet without fear of mispronouncing the long foreign words, have a bit of lardo on bread if you dare, a pizza if you don't. Instead of ordering wine from a waitress or bartender, you recharge the kind of debit card you may remember from the laundry room in your college dorm, you thrust it into a machine, and you wait for a single ounce of the fluid to be dispensed into your glass. It is a good way to try high-end wines like Gaja Brunello that you would never get to taste otherwise, and a bad way to tie your drink on. An ounce of wine isn't a lot, and by the end of the night you will probably resemble the others, jabbing at the buttons like a chicken jabbing at the lever of a lab machine, waiting for that kernel of corn. Read more about this Los Angeles bar or club >>
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