It's getting hot out there. Time for a cold drink in a dark place. erskinetimes has recommendations:
The object of my affection is the Harbor Room, a popcorn ball of driftwood, sly smirks and sticky beer. Purportedly, it is the smallest bar in Los Angeles and the third-smallest in the nation. This allows for a rakish intimacy. Total strangers confide. Mothers duck out for an hour here in the late afternoon.An earlier version of this column listed an incorrect address for the Tonga Hut. It is at 12808 Victory Blvd.
This week’s passion: “Noir bars,” my term for dark sanctuaries we duck into on blistering summer afternoons. Cool, like caves. Spiritual, like cathedrals. Black as an old Bible.Our No. 1 noir bar pick, Ercoles 1101, has been around for 90 years. Here, Martin Anguiano serves up the famed burgers. Indeed, there is a passion for these hangouts. They all have war stories, the hint of scandal. Typically, they tend to feature old chrome cash registers, jukeboxes and pool cues crooked as a broken nose.You can tell noir bars because they have no windows, no clocks. You come to noir bars to escape a thankless and increasingly fretful world. And to laugh.In a noir bar, provocation is king. The truth connects to nothing .
Taylor’s Steakhouse in Koreatown might just be the darkest joint of all. For all you know, there could be a séance going on, an inquest, a Roman orgy.
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