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January 14, 2008
Deacon Booze: LAist Happy Hour
Dudes, it's become clear to me that just by walking about whatever fine neighborhood you happen to reside in (NoHo, WeHo, SilLake, DnTn, SanMo, KTown, HanPark, CulCity, etc), you're bound to happen upon a great little bar with great happy hour deals. Fer instance: this week I was walking around Downtown and ran into some friends, who happily guided me to the Redwood Bar & Grill, a fun and surprisingly classy little pirate bar near Disney Hall. Do they have an awesome happy hour? You betcha.
Don't forget, you can email your hot happy hour tips (or any tips having to do with cheap booze, regardless of the hour) to carrie@laist.com. Happy boozing!
- Happy Hour, Redwood Bar and Grill, Downtown, 5-7pm: Immediately upon entering this gastropub, I vowed to return again soon for their cheap drinks ($2 PBR, $3 Dewars, $4 pints of great local brews) and delicious appetizers (1/2 off starters like crab cakes, tiger prawns, and fried cheeses). Say hi to Nici for us!
- Frank N' Hanks, Koreatown: From a reader tip! No specific happy hour time, but lots of cheap beer deals: $2-5 per beer.
- Blue Monday at Silverlake Wine, 5-9pm: Again, not literally a happy hour, but Silverlake Wine offers tasting events every week for a great price. Tonight, sample a wine flight and cheese course for only $12 per person.
Photo of Redwood Bar & Grill by Carrie Meathrell
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Just to be cranky oldskool bitch - The Redwood was once a genuine journalists' bar, where the folks from the LA Times and the Herald -- back when there was an LA Herald -- would go to drink. This version is certainly welcome, and the calamari is OK, but it is only classy if you never saw the original.
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The small room in the way back still has much of the old skool feel, actually. I believe they even ceremonially re-connected an old phone w/ a direct line to the Times newsdesk at a recent SPJ soiree.
But dontcha wish journalism was as classy as it used to be -- when the best columns were fueled by two- and three-martini lunches and ink pens and typewriters were the writer's crutch? Before the copy/paste electronic press release?
OK, who's cranky now? I agree, it's as hard to truly define the new Redwoods as classy as it is to call it a "pirate bar." But any joint with multiple flavors of Craftsman on tap gets points in my book.
Arrrr!
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sorry guys, I'm way too young to know what either of you are talking about.
OOOOOOH BURN!!!!!!
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Redwood used to also be a speak-easy open after hours where you entered through the building next to it and into the side door vs. entering from the street. I don't know if this was a long-standing tradition but it recently ended and was very sad. I felt pretty bad-ass knowing about an after-hours that wasn't a dance party machine.