Reply #36: Here are the bars I've been to in the L.A. area [View All]

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Gilhooly's Once nestled in a dark corner of May Company.
Columbo's A good horn.
Topper's Last of the old time Eagle Rock dives.
Red Carpet They had a shuffleboard game.
E.R. Lanes The Safari Room was the name of the bar.
Dragon Old Chinese restaurant with a big bar.
Violet's Now Café Beaujolais
All Star Lanes Kind of run down
Big O Once an Occidental College football hangout. Gone.
Dusty's Dive on York Blvd.
Villa Sombrero Good Mexican food; tiny bar.
John Bull (Old) The best old British Pub; long gone.
John Bull (New) Now a restaurant.
LochNess Monster Still going as the Old Towne Pub. Spent a lot of time here.
Reuben's Featured dancing in the early 1980's.
Monahan's Was a great place for the Lake Ave. business crowd.
Handlebars Hard to find beer bar. Good sized dance floor.
Manana Quiet fancy Mexican restaurant. Long gone
Slik's Dance club atop the Hilton.
1 West Used to feature live music. I don't know what's there now.
Prime Time Mid-Pasadena R&B club.
Hamburger Hamlet I own stock in this chain
Nightwatch Once was Henry's Chicken in a Basket. Gone.
Hazel's Only place other than the Loch Ness where I ever saw Snotty Scotty and the Hankies playing.
Casa Maria
Ritz Grill
Black Angus (Monrovia)
Gus's Barbecue Saw Robert Reed there.
Barney's LTD
Romeo's
Arriba
Billabong
Velvet Turtle
Dodsworth Now the Cheesecake Factory.
Monty's
Fannie's The Bar at the Hilton.
Italian Fisherman Years ago it was really nice inside. Then they remodeled. They had great food.
Parkway Grill Once considered one of the best restaurants in Pasadena.
Brown Derby The only restaurant for which I was ever told
De Lacey's Club 41 Still a great place for steaks and chops. The Caesar Salad and the Oysters Rockefeller are noteworthy.
Charley Brown's
Crown City Brewery Vast selection of beers here. Not a bad place to take lunch.
Stoney Point
Crossbow
Inn Arty's
Beckham Place
Menage
Pappagallo
Holly St. Bar & Grill
CT's Bar & Grill (Alhambra)
Cafe Catavino
35er Once a local dive. Remodeled into a more respectable
McNamaras Idle Hour
Market City Caffe
Cal State L.A. Pub I think it was called Union Station.
Le Papillon
Cafe Rialto
Rumors Small dive on Colorado Blvd.
Old Timer A neighborhood beer bar.
Green Street
Tony Roma's
Sawmill
Bona Corso Family syle Italian restaurant which
Mijares
Sunset I went there to write a music review for the Pasadena Weekly.
McCarthy's
Jake's Billiards
Sammy's
Mi Piace
Q's
CT's Bar & Grill (Pasadena) Last place I saw Bill "The Fox" Foster perform.
Lucky Baldwin's (Old) Burned down
Il Fornaio Good Italian restaurant with a long bar.
McMurphy's
Gordon Biersch Good food
Mecca Room Now the busy Louise's Trattoria.
Cafe Santorini I've always liked the atmosphere on the balcony.
Twin Palms This place is real nice
McCormack & Schmicks This fish house used to have some good appetizers. I don't know the current status.
Papashon Gone now. One in a rather fancy small chain of restaurants. We ducked in here on a rainy night
Crocodile Cafe This is the one on Lake Ave. The bar was bearable
Jerry's Famous Deli (Pas.) I think it either is
Buca Di Beppo Great for a big crowd.
Houstons Dark wood and fancy hamburgers.
Lucky Baldwin's (New) Nice
Bahooka The famous Polynesian venue.
Clearman's Galley AKA The Hamburger Boat.
Front Runner
Peppers
Cameron's
Sorriso
Sirona Grille
Frank & Dean's
100 to 1 Club
Derby The restaurant that Seabiscuit built.
First Cabin
Trifecta
Drinker's Hall of Fame
Matt Denny's
Lady Jane's
Carlos O'Brien's The former site of Desmond's store had many incarnations before being razed.
Rusty Scupper
Reflections (Glendale)
Reflections (LC)
Shaker Mountain Inn
Jax Still one of our favorite restaurants; very comfortable jazz bar.
Shenanigans
Churchill's
Marie Callandar's
Players
Roost
Jim's Bar
Clancy's
Forge
Castaways Famous for its great view.
Bombay Bicycle Club
Black Angus (Burbank)
Bobby McGee's
Don Carlos
Rusty Pelican
Damon's Steaks
Cellar Club Old timers used to come here and sing.
Ken & Rod's Used to go there when I worked at Sammon's Cable.
Grand Central Bowl Now a Disney Imagineering Building. They retained 4 of the 64 bowling lanes for company use.
Winchester
China Inn
Noodles
Rusty's Hacienda
Butcher's Arms Gone. A good bar too.
Tam O'Shanter
Clancy's Santa Fe Cantina
Tony Roma's
Charles Billards
Phone Company Now a Filipino restaurant.
Acapulco
Chuy's Had decent happy hour specials.
Beaches Seafood restaurant. Gone.
Jan Drake's
Golden Cue
Red Robin
Market City Cafe (Burbank)
Islands (Burbank)
Far Niente
Harvest Inn Fancy Chinese.
Red Lion Hotel Now a Hilton.
Barney's LTD (Glen)
Barragan's
Don Cuco
Elephant Bar (Burbank)
Chevy's (Burbank)
Macaroni Grill (Burbank)
Hooters (Burbank)
Red Lion Still a great place to go after a Dodger game.
Chrystie's Nice city bar. Gone.
Ginger Man Carroll O'Connor's citified Beverly Hill's bistro.
Red Onion (Beverly Hills) Popular dance place.
Pizzazz Black owned club in LA. We went to the grand opening
Hofbrau/Turner Inn Might have been where Staples Center is. If you dug doing the polka with someone's mom
Pan American Night Club Latin nightclub; I don't think this is where Red Sanders died.
Hong Kong Cafe Along with Madame Wong's
Madame Wong's See Hong Kong Café
Roxy Long time Rock music venue.
Body Shoppe Kind of crummy strip show. Odd thing - Mark remembered the girls to have been naked
Yee Mee Loo Great old place. Gone. I have little interest in seeing the remains of the bar at Cinnabar in Glendale.
Coconut Teaszer Saw Ralph Macchio there on a quiet Sunday night.
Cat & Fiddle Hollywood's venerable British pub. Unfortunately
Barney's Beanery Saw Julian Lennon there on the same Sunday night. (See Coconut Teaszer).
Sound Check Hangout for down-on-their-luck Hollywood-type ex-Midwesterners.
Al's Bar Artsy downtown dive. Saw George Wendt there
Crush Bar (Continental Club) Dancing to '60's music in what appears to have been a converted bowling alley.
Crush Bar (Stardust Ballroom) Same as above
Tiki Ti They had a big drink - basically a huge bowl of alcohol - called the Chief Lapu Lapu Senior. I think it's illegal now.
Rainbow For the Hollywood rockers and posers.
Cathay de Grande This somewhat raunchy club later became the site of a nice place - I forget the name - where I saw Jerry Dunphy.
Hardrock Cafe Big circular bar was very popular in the mid 1980's.
Kit Kat Club Small music joint. First saw the Young Lords there before I joined the band.
Club Lingerie Loud - too loud - popular rock music club.
Pat's Place I think someone I know lived here
Villa Taxco
Anti Club (Helen's)
Starkey's Deli
48 Crash
Silvio
Jay Sloan's
Giovanni Ate there once on an Entertainment Book coupon.
Ports
Muse I once had a great piece of flourless chocolate cake there.
Cafe Roma
Formosa Cafe
Flaming Colossus
Lawry's Prime Rib
Hank's Frank's one-time second home.
Grand Star
Bistro
Bocca
Molly Malone's
El Coyote
Coach & Horses
Pane Caldo
Walk of Fame Right in the heart of Hollywood. The only other patron at the bar
Cocola
Tuttobene
Club Tee Gee
Lo Stregone
Chi Dynasty
Pierre's Los Feliz Gone now. Was an old fashioned place where you could get a hunk of game.
Dresden
Grandview Gardens This was the old dim sum joint.
Hop Louie Upstairs in "New" Chinatown.
L.A. Nicola
Engine Company No. 28
Lawry's Patio
Prego
Cafe Rodeo
El Paseo
Grill on Main
Snow White Cafe
Hamburger Hamlet (Hollywood)
Taix Venerable Echo Park Restaurant. Went there in 1966 and 2003
Musso & Frank's Grill
Miceli's
Empress Pavilion
Pig & Whistle
Vert
Edendale Grill
Fox Inn The first bar I went to in LA. RIP
Music Machine
Huntley House Still popular as Topper's Mexican restaurant. Nice views from the top of the Huntley Hotel.
Carlos & Pepe's
Wildflour (Santa Monica)
Marshall Sutter's
McGinty's Across the street from the Fox Inn. One would go here during the Fox's breaks.
San Francisco Saloon
Chippendale's They let the guys in after the male exotic dancer show was over - and the place was packed with girls.
Yesterdays This place was very popular; especially the balcony section over Westwood Blvd.
Crystal Palace Another short-lived Westwood restaurant.
Mom's Brentwood club with a definite U.C.L.A. feel.
Hamburger Hamlet (Brentwood) This link in the Hamburger Hamlet chain featured dancing
P.O.E.T.S. No business lasted very long at this Weswood location.
Monty's (Westwood) I remember the sign on top of the building more than the bar.
Willy Tiffany's
Brandy's
Merlin McFly's
Madame Wong's West
D.B. Levy's They had a huge menu
Dillon's Very popular multi-level disco
Oar House
Fish Company
Fat City
D.B. Cooper's
Apples
Bentley's 49
Wave
Baxter's (Westwood)
Cutters
Tavern on Main
Land's End
City of Angels Brewing Co.
Ye Olde Kings Head
Ocean Avenue Seafood
Cafe Pelican
DC3
Rebecca's
La Cage Aux Folles
On the Waterfront
Brennan's
King George V (Old)
King George V (New)
Eureka
Father's Office Once had the novelty of being smoke-free
Teaser's
Broadway Bar & Grill
Red Onion (Redondo Beach) I remember a normal mixed dance crowd; and they had a porno running on a big screen?!
Reuben's (Torrance)
Jockey Club (Redondo Beach) The day after running up a huge bar tab here with Malcolm
Lococo's Map of Iberia on the dance floor.
Gung Hay Big Asian hangout.
Baxter's
Warehouse
Gulliver's
T.G.I. Friday's
Tequila Willie's
Airport Hyatt Had a drink here when the Theta formals were held at this hotel.
Irisher Went there during Frank's Labor Day party
MacArthur Park I think we went there for John's 40th birthday.
The Strand Spacious music venue. Saw Taj there.
Manhattan Coolers One of those places that there is only one of
Angeli Mare Had dinner here once. There was a small
Larson's Hole in the Wall One day I drank my way home from the beach - see the next 3 entries. This place is gone.
Frank's Bar & Grill See above.
Pork Chop Brown's See above.
Nordondo Club See above. Always liked the name of this place.
Huntington Beach Beer Co Had lunch there. There were more White people in Huntington Beach than I had ever seen in one place in my life. It seemed like a different country - maybe Nazi Germany.
Hennessy's (Hermosa Beach) Nice indoor-outdoor beach tavern.
El Adobe (San Juan Capistrano)
Swallows Inn (San Juan Capistrano) Fantastic local saloon.
Ciao Pasta (San Juan Capistrano)
Sasch I could never figure out why the people at this Vally club were so stuck up.
Tennessee Gin & Cotton Big multi-roomed dance club.
Adam's Rib Around the world in 80 beers.
Fung Lum Real fancy Chinese. Went there very early on with Mark. I know it was early in my drinking days
Palomino The classic Valley country music venue.
Stanley's Restaurant with large
L'Express (North Hollywood) Their food wasn't too bad
L'Express (Sherman Oaks) I can scarcely remember this one.
China Trader Anne and Laurie were served a Mickey Finn here.
Stage East
F.M. Station
Country Club
Queso Grande Cantina
Moscow Nights
Shaine's
Jerry's Deli
Casting Office
El Chiquito
Dalt's
Moonlight Tango Cafe
Que Pasa
Hilltop Hungarian Restaurant Gone; had good food though.
Robin Hood
Pago Pago Gone; now a Disney day care center at this location.
Des Reagan's Went there more often as the Cinnamon Cinder; country music.
Now Voyager
El Torito
Don Cuco
Piero's Chef Piero himself was tending bar when I wen't in there.
Feed Store
Whispers Bar of the Ramada Inn.
Acapulco (Burbank)
Tony Roma's (Universal)
Giamela's/Nick's Saloon Used to go there with Brent for a couple of beers while ostensibly going "across the street" on business.
Smokehouse Old fashioned place; famous for its cheese toast.
Tin Horn Flats Neighborhood bar in Burbank; decent burgers.
Gladstone's
Sardo's Every old-timer in Toluca Lake must be in this place around lunch time.
Victoria Station
Camacho's Forgettable restaurant in Citywalk.
Pickwick Bowl Good large bowling alley.
Hollywood -a-Go-Go Sleazy bikini dancing girls.
Captain's Cabin This seemed like a dangerous place.
TGI Friday's (WH) Their food is surprisingly good. Met Janet here.
Hollywood Athletic Club (Univ.) Another gimmicky Citywalk joint.
Mo's
Buchanan Arms
Champs
Blue Chip (Burbank)
Timmy Nolan's
Cheesecake Factory (Sh. Oaks)