Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
On the roof of the Intercontinental Hotel, Spire 73 proclaims to be the tallest rooftop bar in the western hemisphere. From its spot on the 73rd story,…
Must-see nightlife in Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This cool, influential Copenhagen import puts a contemporary spin on the old beer hall. Fitted out with booths, communal bar tables and cartoon artwork by…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Opened in 1935 and back after a $10-million renovation, multilevel, mixed-crowd Clifton's defies description. Order drinks from a Gothic church altar amid…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Cocktails, pinball machines and arcade games makes for oh-so-retro good times at this graffiti-soaked warehouse bar. Named for 1982 (the height of the …
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Accessed through easy-to-miss Harlem Pl alleyway, this extraordinary basement lounge sits in a century-old power plant. It's like a dimly lit, steampunk…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Don't be fooled by the unceremonious grey exterior. Behind that wall lies a hopping Arts District hangout, with a buzzy, bulb-strung outdoor patio. The…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
What's not to love about a rooftop bar with knockout Downtown views, powerful cocktails and a luxe, safari-inspired fit out? Perched on the 14th floor of…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Behind Villains Tavern is restaurateur and interior designer Dana Hollister, who turned a run-down Arts District deli into this dark-wood and iron den of…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Tucked into the back of Cole's is this cubby-hole-sized speakeasy, an essential downtown bar since it won the Tales of the Cocktail competition in 2012.
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Where suspension cables were once manufactured, craft brews are now made and poured. Located on the edge of the Arts District, this is a popular spot to…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Santa Cruz microroastery Verve turns ethically sourced beans into beautiful cups of coffee at its loft-like DTLA branch, an industrial combo of concrete…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Soaked in natural light, this airy mix of glass, marble and concrete brews fantastic coffee, including espresso, drip and cold brew. Beans are seasonal…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Pulling everyone from hipsters to urban vaqueros and nostalgic Latino aunties, this red-vinyl Mexican dive bar just keeps on kicking, despite Downtown's…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Part of Downtown's booming gay scene, Redline's metal-pressed bar draws everyone from laid-back old timers to twinks and punks. Head in for $5 happy-hour…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The ultimate gay dive bar, with all the thrilling prerequisites: no cover charge, regular drag shows, a heaving dance floor and wallet-friendly drinks …
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A fun Little Tokyo bar with waxed concrete floors, a blonde-wood slab bar, common tables and built-in bench seating. Expect ball games on the flat screens…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A loud, cavernous, industrial Arts District hot spot, with huge brewing vats behind the bar, vintage Skee-Ball tables and a Charles Bukowski quote glowing…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A retro-spirited watering hole with twirling ceiling fans, parlor floors and cocktails celebrating its Fashion District address. Chat hemlines and fabrics…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Kick up your heels during Saturday’s Tropical Nights when a salsa band turns the heat up against the faux Mayan-temple backdrop. Don’t know how? Come…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This dark basement lounge flashes old-school glamor with leather bar stools and lounges tucked into intimate coves. But the bar is the thing, armed with…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
With an old Mexico whimsy, more than 400 agave spirits and friendly barkeeps who mix ingredients such as egg whites, blackberries and port syrup into new…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A vintage bar with old-school funk, groovy tunes on the stereo, sports on strobing flat screens and taps pouring suds from Cali craft brewers such as…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Climb the stairs to this sprawling, dimly lit, down-n-dirty, rock-and-roll-style bar where Downtown gays from twinks to bears frolic in a series of bars,…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
In a former bank vault, Crane's is one of our favorite Downtown dives, complete with jukebox, butcher-block bar (carved from a 130-year-old Douglas fir)…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Across from Mariachi Plaza, this Latin-flavored wine bar comes with frequent live music and DJs.
