Cameo Bar 1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica 310-451-8711 Cameo Bar at the Viceroy
Hotel serves light meals and cocktails in the lobbyside lounge and pool.
Circle Bar 2926 Main St., Santa Monica 310-392-4898 Here's a toast to the old
Circle Bar with its hard tales, badness and bluster that stuck in your
head like cheap whiskey.
Yankee Doodles 1410 3rd St., Santa Monica 310-394-4632 This oh-so-American chain of
sports bars has been described as Disneyland for adults. There are pool
tables, air hockey tables, foos-ball, shoot 'em up video games, a virtual
reality ski game and big- screen televisions covering the walls that play
every sports game worth watching.
Bar Copa 2810 Main St., Santa Monica 310-452-2445 Part of the bar's sexy pull
is its cave-like darkness (you actually squint when you walk outside in
the dead of the night) and red-tinted wooden walls. The twentysomething
and thirtysomething crowd shows up around midnight and spends more time
dancing and mingling than at the bar.
Harvelle's 1432 4th St., Santa Monica 310-395-1676 This is the kind of blues
joint you'd expect to find in a dark Chicago alley; yet even if it's your
first visit, it feels familiar.
Sugar 814 Broadway Ave., Santa Monica 310-899-1989 Sweet dance spot with
local and global electronica deejays.
Suzy Q's Swing Club at Quest, Santa Monica 310-203-7899 The swing's the thing at this
Westside dance club dedicated to the bee-bop sounds of the '30s and more.
Temple Bar 1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica 310-393-6611 Groove-oriented space
has incubated such local gems as the Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra.
14 Below 1348 14th St., Santa Monica 310-451-5040 An intimate and
well-equipped club that is leading the Westside music scene with live
performances seven nights a week.
Casa Escobar 2500 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica 310-828-1315 A Thursday night
doesn't go by when Monty isn't playing "Girl From Ipanema," but that's why
we keep coming back.
Deuces Supper Club 2020 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica 310-829-1933 A 1940s-style supper
club.
Gotham Hall 1431 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica 310-394-8865 If Batman
existed, he'd shoot pool -- excuse us, billiards -- at Gotham Hall on his
night off.
Harvelle's 1432 4th St., Santa Monica 310-395-1676 This is the kind of blues
joint you'd expect to find in a dark Chicago alley; yet even if it's your
first visit, it feels familiar.
Bar Copa 2810 Main St., Santa Monica 310-452-2445 Part of the bar's sexy pull
is its cave-like darkness (you actually squint when you walk outside in
the dead of the night) and red-tinted wooden walls. The twentysomething
and thirtysomething crowd shows up around midnight and spends more time
dancing and mingling than at the bar.
Cameo Bar 1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica 310-451-8711 Cameo Bar at the Viceroy
Hotel serves light meals and cocktails in the lobbyside lounge and pool
more.
O'Brien's Pub & Restaurant 2941 Main St., Santa Monica 310-396-4725 If you're a fan of films,
you might experience déjà vu when walking into this workingman's Irish
pub.
The Galley 2442 Main Street, Santa Monica 310-452-1934
Whist 1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica 310-451-8711 This hip restaurant inside
the new Viceroy Hotel is serious, but fun. The rather plain dining room is
trumped by the whimsical retro-glamour of the bar, which sprawls out into
a patio area with two postage-stamp-sized pools surrounded by a series of
cabanas.
The Shack 2518 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica 310-449-1171
Yankee Doodles 1410 3rd St., Santa Monica 310-394-4632 This oh-so-American chain of
sports bars has been described as Disneyland for adults. There are pool
tables, air hockey tables, foos-ball, shoot 'em up video games, a virtual
reality ski game and big- screen televisions covering the walls that play
every sports game worth watching.
