1. San Francisco Saloon
7.6
11501 W Pico Blvd (Gateway Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA
Dive Bar · West Los Angeles · 45 tips and reviews
vincent iulianello: great bear, great pub atmosphere, great place to hide and waste the day and get refreshing tap beer, good chats, relaxing ....fantastic to watch a football game here!!!!
Angelica Monroe: The Bloody Mary's are sooooo good, and spicy. The chicken wings are insane. Happy staff, overall good vibes. If you love getting drunk and listening to 90's hip hop, come here. New fave
John Hardin: Go Giants! Best place in LA to remind this city who the real champions are.
5. The Nickel Mine
7.6
11363 Santa Monica Blvd (at Purdue), Los Angeles, CA
Cocktail Bar · West Los Angeles · 12 tips and reviews
Jacqueline L.: Happy hour: Sunday-Friday 5PM-8PM. $4 select draughts, select wines, all well cocktails.
Frosty: A nice bar to watch a sports game, including Dodger games! Full bar, great beer selections buy limited food options.
Jacqueline L.: The whiskey menu here is pretty good. This is definitely a sports bar, though, so expect crowds on game days, and bros on any days.
7. Nanbankan
8.5
11330 Santa Monica Blvd (at Corinth Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Japanese Restaurant · West Los Angeles · 27 tips and reviews
Rachel Robinson: Tsukune. The best thing ever. Asparagus wrapped in bacon. Pork medallions. Mini sausages. Seaweed salad. Burdock root in some kind of amazing sauce. Pretty much everything.
Nima: The Lamb with salt (not garlic) and black cod are a must. Be sure to order an overflowing glass or two or three of kurosawa sake with your meal. I was a nanbankan addict for months!
eeena d.: Get a seat by the bar. Faster service and you get to watch the chefs cook up your skewers. I always get the nanbanyaki, chicken tail and lamb.
Meilissa: Char siu ramen is the best. Add the spicy pickle side dish and be generous with it. Yumz!!
Los Angeles Times: Tsujita, a spinoff of a revered Tokyo ramen restaurant, is so far ahead of its competition that the others may as well not exist. Read more.
LA Weekly: "Tsukemen is hip in all the usual ways, including obscurity, a stylized consumption ritual and flavor of an intensity that can be overwhelming the first few times out" -Jonathan Gold Read more.