First Bar Hop Proves Better Idea than Execution
Eric Richardson
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — My last twitter message from blogdowntown's first bar hop, held on a cold but dry Friday evening, sums up the night:
Buses slow. Battery dying. We detoured to whiskey.
Indeed, logistics were not our friend on Friday night, but a group that peaked around seventeen made our way to four Downtown drinkeries.
The Late Night DASH, intended to be the centerpiece of the night, was not showing itself off well. The operator told us that two of the buses had broken down earlier in the evening, leaving wait times a little uglier than normal.
Those waits led to a slipping timetable which eventually forced a route detour. After hitting Cole's, Nick & Stef's and Broadway Bar, we eventually ended up making our way over to Seven Grand as the night wore on.
Those who, like me, tend not to make it out much late at night will be pleased to hear that Downtown's nightlife seems to be doing quiet well. All of our stops were lively, and a healthy line waited outside Seven Grand at the midnight hour.
One of blogdowntown's resolutions for 2009 is to do more events, so you can expect us to reprise this sort of a night in not too long. Just expect round two to be a little simpler to execute.
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It's hard to have a barhop in LA. The bars are too far apart and the transit doesn't run frequent enough, so you end up just kind of walking which kind of sucks in heels.
There needs to be more bars right next to each other. When we tried to have a barhop we didn't see a Dash and the bars we chose weren't open yet or had a cover for a silly band or had just had a band with too loud of music which makes it hard to talk...the nature of LA makes the barhopping experience a bit annoying. Maybe LA is just not a barhopping without a car town, maybe its more of a get in your car and drive drunk and get arrested town...lol...
LA is very conducive to bringing your own flask and walking around, but trying to find enough bars that don't suck well and no lines and not too insanely crowded with no suits...Los Feliz (Rustic, Drawing Room, Good Luck, Dresden, Tiki, a bunch of places in between that keep closing and opening, then you got Macho Burritos so you can eat without going through a bunch of changes) is pretty much the only place you can sort of do that at in a fun and productive way and possibly that has to do with the fact that they also have a taxi queue and taxis that look for drunk people...hell you can also get on the red line and pop out and go to the white horse and I won't keep naming places because you will think I have a problem, yeah the east hollywood vicinity is very bar people friendly.
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