Must-see nightlife in Silver Lake & Echo Park

  • Virgil

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    An atmospheric, vintage-styled neighborhood hangout serving quality cocktails to local hipsters and arty types. A stocked calendar of entertainment…

  • Eightfold Coffee

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    Eastside stylists, bloggers and musicians flock to this cool, whitewashed coffee shop to talk gigs, browse niche journals and sip superlative, Portland…

  • Red Lion Tavern

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    Chipped, worn and armed with retro cigarette vending machine, this old-school beer dive has been pouring German suds since 1959. The snug, woody…

  • Intelligentsia

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    LA's original overly intellectual coffee house (and there are a number of them now) offers a marble island bar where you can sit with your laptop, and a…

  • Short Stop

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    Echo Park's beloved and deceptively sprawling dive has a dance floor in one room, a bar strobing ballgames on flat-screens in another, and a pool table…

  • Eagle LA

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    A dark, sexy demi-monde where the walls are black, the lights red and the videos hardcore, the Eagle is as close as LA gets to a proper gay leather bar,…

  • Sunset Beer Company

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    What's better than a beer store? One with a bar. That's what you get here, where clued-up, attitude-free staffers are happy to help you decide between…

  • Akbar

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    Fun-loving, Casbah-style Akbar is a hit with queer Eastsiders of all ages – skinny-denim hipsters, greying daddies, skyscraping drag queens. There's no…

  • Thirsty Crow

    Silver Lake & Echo Park

    A divey, hipster-pulling whiskey bar on Sunset where (small-batch) bourbon is the preferred poison. The $5 happy-hour drinks, offered 5pm to 8pm on…