Santa Monica Bars & Clubs
1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
This mid-20th century take on a classic English lounge is located just off the lobby in the hip Viceroy Hotel. Light meals and cocktails served.
2926 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405
I've heard a million stories at the Circle Bar. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of them. I drank away the early '90s at the Circle. I wrote my first play about it. Tons...
2442 Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
Established in 1934, some patrons have been belly up to this bar since the Eisenhower administration. No wonder; it’s always night and roughly 1943 inside, and the...
1520 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404
Behind the Buffalo Club's purposefully seedy camouflage is a posh American restaurant -- a vision of retro luxe with champagne bottles in silver tubs, opulent leather...
112 West Channel Rd., Santa Monica, CA, 90402
318 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
Like a smaller, more gregarious and usually more inebriated version of the institutional Ye Olde King’s Head down the street, Britannia Pub serves British food and...
2941 Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
An Irish immigrant himself, owner William O'Sullivan says his 10-year-old pub was sustained in its first three years by other overseas Irish. Since then, this very...
101 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
522 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
Situated in a ramshackle boardinghouse that predates the town's seven decades of building records, and run by the same unusual woman for 26 consecutive years, Renee's...
2907 Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
Rick’s doesn’t advertise, unless you count people on cell phones shouting to each other curbside. Still this old fashioned bar’s bar—décor...