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A pair of mounted bull heads and
lucha libre
(Mexican wrestling) masks create an over-
the-top 'Tijuana North' look and pull in an industry-heavy crowd at LA's ultimate tequila
and mescal tavern (over a hundred to choose from).
Bar Marmont
BAR
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; 8171 Sunset Blvd; 6pm-2am)
Elegant, but not stuck up. Been around, yet still cherished. With high ceilings, molded
walls and terrific martinis, the famous, and the wish-they-weres, still flock here. If you
time it right, you might see Thom Yorke, or perhaps Lindsey Lohan? Come midweek.
Weekends are for amateurs.
Formosa Cafe
BAR
323-850-9050; 7156 Santa Monica Blvd;
4pm-2am Mon-Fri, 6pm-2am
Sat & Sun)
Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable used to knock ̓em back at this dark railcar of a water-
ing hole so authentically noir that scenes from
LA Confidential
were filmed here. Skip the
Chinese food.
Malibu
Sunset
BAR
A perfectly strange oasis after a day at the beach. Mostly because the Happy Hour crowd
gets weird. Like rich, celebrity, plastic surgery, comb-over weird. We do love us some
Malibu.
