Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake, Los Angeles is a kitsch-y dive bar with a back patio, a photo booth and a $5 well. Open since the late 1990s.
Food program: Snack vending in lounge
Address: 2375 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039
The Prince in Koreatown, Los Angeles is a 1949 hotel bar with red velvet booths, used as a Mad Men location, now serving Korean fried chicken with soju.
Signature drink: Korean fried chicken and a soju
Food: Korean menu, fried chicken
La Cuevita in Highland Park, Los Angeles is a mezcal and tequila bar with a deep agave list, a Mexican kitchen and one of the better DJ booths on York.
Signature drink: Mezcal flight
Food: Tacos, small bites
Thunderbolt in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles is a Mathew Biancaniello cocktail room with frozen rotations and one of the city's best martinis.
Signature drink: Frozen mai tai
Food: Bar snacks, pickled things
Frolic Room on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles is a 1934 dive bar with a Hirschfeld mural along the back wall and a $7 well drink. Cash only, no food.
Signature drink: Whiskey on the rocks
Food: None, snacks at the counter
Bar Flores in Echo Park, Los Angeles is Othon Nolasco's mezcal and tequila room serving Latin-leaning cocktails and a small dinner plate menu.
Signature drink: Tepache margarita
Food: Small Mexican plates
Good Times at Davey Wayne's in Hollywood, Los Angeles is a 1970s-themed bar from the 1933 Group; enter through a refrigerator door, large patio out back.
Signature drink: Popsicle cocktail
Food: Snacks, food truck on patio
