The Drawing Room

Are you looking for a dark loud bar? There is an el shaped strip mall on Hillhurst in Los Feliz you need to stop into. Tucked in next to a laundromat and easy to miss The Drawing Room is loud, dark and a lot of fun. Iggy Pop’s “Passenger” was playing and an informal sing-a-long was going on the first time I entered. I had two out of town guests with me. One was from San Francisco the other from New York and both were ready to turn up their noses at an “El Lay” rocker dive bar. Ha! They were enchanted. Who wouldn’t love an old Chinese restaurant that rocks?

We quickly discovered that The Drawing Room is an “and” bar; a vodka and tonic, a scotch and soda, a beer and a shot. Don’t sashay into The Drawing Room and try to order a Boodles dry martini or a pink squirrel unless you wanted to be glared at, rightfully. Have a beer, play some darts, put a buck in the juke box and laugh loud. You’ll fit right in. The regulars are a friendly mix of locals and rockers. The bartenders are sassy and a riot. Don’t walk in there and try to start trouble The Drawing Room does not play that way. This is a bar for good time socializing and nothing else. There aren’t any frills at The Drawing Room unless you consider napkins a frill. It’s got drinks, music, fun people and nothing else. This is a cash only bar but there is an ATM by the toilets. The Drawing Room is a dark loud good time.