Lounges in Los Angeles

LA's Downtown cocktail lounge scene has undergone an extraordinary renaissance — a neighborhood where world-class restaurants, craft cocktail bars, and hotel lounges serve one of America's most diverse professional and creative populations. DTLA's transformation from an abandoned post-war commercial district to one of America's most exciting urban neighborhoods has been driven by the same forces of creative entrepreneurship that create its outstanding cocktail culture.

Los Feliz and Silver Lake's cocktail lounge scene is Los Angeles's most creative bar neighborhood — a pair of hillside communities where the most innovative creative professionals in LA's entertainment industry gather at outstanding craft cocktail bars with extraordinary views and menus. The neighborhood's extraordinary concentration of screenwriters, musicians, and artists creates a bar market that values the kind of careful, intelligent cocktail-making that defines the best American cocktail bars.

Clifton's Republic is Los Angeles's most extraordinary multi-level entertainment complex — a Downtown LA landmark presenting multiple bars across five floors of extraordinary 1930s architecture including a redwood forest, a tiki bar, and a gothic lounge. The Broadway Corridor's extraordinary preservation of 1920s-1930s movie palaces and Clifton's extraordinary architectural ambition create an entertainment experience uniquely shaped by Hollywood's golden age.

Employees Only Los Angeles brings one of New York's most acclaimed cocktail programs to the West Coast — a West Hollywood outpost of the legendary NYC speakeasy presenting exceptional craft cocktails to LA's creative entertainment industry community. West Hollywood's extraordinary LGBTQ+ community and its concentration of entertainment industry professionals create a cocktail lounge market that demands both genuine quality and exceptional social atmosphere.

Formosa Cafe is one of Hollywood's most historically significant bars — a West Hollywood institution where Clark Gable, Elvis Presley, and virtually every major Hollywood star drank from the 1940s through the 1990s. The beautifully restored Red Car trolley and its extraordinary Hollywood memorabilia collection create a lounge experience that serves as a living museum of Hollywood's golden age, preserved in amber and perfectly mixed cocktails.

Hollywood Hills' private and celebrity-oriented lounge scene represents the apex of American entertainment industry cocktail culture — a world where film producers, directors, and A-list actors share intimate rooftop bars with extraordinary views of the LA basin. The convergence of extraordinary wealth, global celebrity, and LA's perfect weather creates a lounge culture available nowhere else on Earth.

Perch is Los Angeles's most beautiful rooftop bar — a Downtown LA penthouse presenting extraordinary cocktails with panoramic views of the LA skyline, the Hollywood Hills, and on clear days the Pacific Ocean. DTLA's extraordinary architectural transformation and Perch's combination of French-inspired cocktails and incomparable views create a rooftop lounge experience that ranks among the finest in the world.

The Spare Room at the Roosevelt Hotel is Hollywood's most historically resonant cocktail lounge — presenting extraordinary craft cocktails alongside vintage bowling lanes in a Hollywood Boulevard hotel where Marilyn Monroe lived for two years and Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married. The Roosevelt's extraordinary Hollywood history and The Spare Room's playful combination of bowling and exceptional cocktails create one of LA's most enjoyable evening entertainment experiences.