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The Best Bars In Venice
From dive bars to dance parties and tiki themes, these are the 12 best places to grab a drink in Venice
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Paul Bar
If you're looking for that Old Hollywood feel in Palm Springs, grab dinner at Paul Bar.
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Carnival
Carnival is a solid Lebanese restaurant in Sherman Oaks where the people-watching is the main event.
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Soko
This sushi counter spot attached to the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica is a good Westside sushi option with style and substance.
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Dunsmoor
Dunsmoor is an upscale, Southern-leaning restaurant in Glassell Park that cooks almost everything over wood fire.
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Clearman's North Woods Inn
Clearman's North Woods Inn is a cheesy lodge themed restaurant and exactly where you want to be when it's cold out.
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The Original Pantry
The Original Pantry is a greasy spoon in DTLA that’s been open since 1924. The food might be mediocre, but the people watching is A+.
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Delilah
Delilah is a dimly lit Weho clubstaurant with decent food and excellent people watching.
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Catch Steak
Catch Steak is a fancy West Hollywood steakhouse with decent food and incredible people watching.
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Wabi on Rose
Wabi in Venice is not where you go for an out-of-body sushi experience. Instead, you come here to have solid cocktails and eat pretty meh sushi rolls that sound like they were conceptualized by a 21 year-old club promoter.
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The Best Bars In Venice
From dive bars to dance parties and tiki themes, these are the 12 best places to grab a drink in Venice
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Carousel Restaurant
Carousel is an over-the-top Middle Eastern restaurant in Glendale and a flat-out LA institution.
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Pearl River Deli
Pearl River Deli is a new-wave Chinese spot in Chinatown with fantastic Cantonese dishes.
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Ardor
Ardor in West Hollywood is one of the most sceney, over-the-top dining experiences in LA.
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Animal
The first restaurant from the guys behind Jon & Vinny's might not be a destination anymore, but it's a solid neighborhood spot in Beverly Grove.
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R+D kitchen
R+D Kitchen in Santa Monica is perpetually crowded, but the burgers and lively crowd are worth the guaranteed 45 minute wait for dinner.
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Triniti
The food at Triniti in Echo Park is like what you’d find in a fancy restaurant. Except you’re eating it in a coffee shop.
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Cassia
Cassia feels like a Santa Monica clubhouse. One filled with truly fantastic Southeast Asian food.