Must-see nightlife in Silver Lake & Echo Park

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

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

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

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…