Los Angeles Bars & Clubs - Billiards Bars
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While the combination of heavy sticks and drunken people is questionable, there is something undeniably great about drinking a beer while shooting a game of pool. Los Angeles has its fair share of billiards bars, from tiny dives with a non-regulation sized table in the back to full billiard halls with over twenty tables. Often patronized by students and people who pay rent by sharking, billiards bars are the places to consume an unreasonable amount of alcohol yet feign sobriety enough to get in on the next game of cutthroat. Even if pool isn't your game, most places with pool tables offer up something for everyone; billiards halls typically feature a reasonable selection of music, often a dance floor and a bar that is comprised of beer and wine at the very least. Some places even go all night, serving up not only stiff cocktails and cheap beer but also random snacks like French fries and Buffalo wings.
Hollywood Billiards
5750 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, California; Tel. 323.465.0115
Pool tables and televised sports equal a lot of men. But this sports bar has plenty going on, like the heated-outside patio and a VIP lounge, which is not that common in most billiard halls. Don't get it wrong—there are women here, and some pool playing foxes at that. So for a night of shooting the &%#@ or a serious hustle, Hollywood Billiards is the spot. And for the color of money, they offer pool lessons by professional billiards player Max Eberle. |
Q's Billiards
11835 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California; Tel. 310.477.5550
Students from nearby UCLA travel to this Westside bar and billiards hall to dance, watch sports, play pool, and drink heavily. The Los Angeles location has two stories of activities going on for the party people to enjoy. The UCLA frat boys prowl for ladies on the downstairs dance floor at Q's Billiards or they sit at the bar to watch several TVs with sports on. Seven pool tables are also downstairs where all the action is going on. Upstairs, there is a lounge to get closer without the audience that the lower floor at this crowded Los Angeles bar has. Expect Friday and Saturday nights to be the most popular at the bar, especially if it isn't around finals. |
—Los Angeles bar and club reviews by Alanna Lee, Ryan Osterbeck and Buddy Seigel
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