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Pop Your Collar: Are These The 25 Douchiest Bars in L.A.?

douchebag_badge.jpg Put on your Ed Hardy gear, shine up your spray tan, stuff your wallet full of bills, and get ready to get douchey: Complex Magazine has named their picks for the "25 Douchiest Bars in L.A." and we're curious to know if you agree with their choices.

What do we think, you ask? Frankly (err, luckily?) we don't have first-person experience with a great majority of the places on the list (like Renee's Front Bar at #24, O'Brien's at #22, and Brennan's at #12, to name just a few), and some we've avoided just because their reputations do, indeed, precede them (Big Wangs, South, The Parlor, for example). Places like Dillon's Irish Pub get their rep thanks to celebs whose names end up on TMZ in the early morning hours. No thanks!

Some picks are right on the money, from the SkyBar at the Mondrian (seriously, people are still kept at bay by bouncers from gaining access to this scene-less--albeit gorgeous--space that should have gone out of vogue at least a decade ago) to the gross-out that is Happy Ending in Hollywood (where we got food poisoning off their greasy fare but didn't order a drink served in a bucket to puke in). And then there's the #1 pick, The Saddle Ranch. Ah, the Saddle Ranch. People still go there! (We're amazed, too.)

The Westside is well represented in Complex's list, with many Santa Monica-Marina Del Rey-Venice spots making the cut. Perhaps surprisingly is how many pubs and sports bars out-douched a lot of Hollywood "hot spots" (true, XIV seems to be closed, but The Colony isn't on the list, hmm).

Check out Complex's full list and let us know if you know of a bar that's even more douchey. Alas, for Foursquare users, hitting up all 25 of these spots will not longer net you the now-retired Douchebag Badge.

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  • westlafadeaway

    I would just mention that you can visit some of these places douche-free if you go to the Saddle Ranch in the morning for an awesome (huge) breakfast and bottomless mimosa/bellinis.  As well O'Briens makes a great Irish breakfast that goes nice with Guinness.

  • Unless referring to devices to cleanse bodily orifices and cavities, continuing to identify and harp on "douchebags" (and hipsters) seems to be self-reflexively the behavior of douchebags-in-denial who need some fresh hobbies. 

  • yeah... Renee's is super eclectic, good chill bar with a great courtyard & often a dj who basically plays the Morning Becomes Eclectic mix...

  • Liz

    Thought some of these were a miss (is Renee's a douchebag bar? Thought it was kinda cool). Also think Hermosa and Westwood got off easy.

  • Jonathan Gillett

    Wow...such hate filled descriptions...This piece would have been better if it put a bit more humor into the subject...the author should know (after visiting these bars) that not all douchebags are created equal.  

  • LindsayWilliamRoss

    Are you talking about the Complex article with the descriptions of their picks for the 25 bars when you say "this piece"?

    ...Just curious if I need to get better acquainted with local douchebaggery.

  • Jonathan Gillett

    Yes, the Complex article not the LAist summary. I thank LAist for bringing this to my attention however...

  • exbaytriate

    i've never been to any of these tool filled bars (DB is soooo '09) but i would add the soho house to places full of hollywood blowjobs i'll never return to. 

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