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Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA
38 Degrees Ale House and Grill is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

1. 38 Degrees Ale House and Grill

7.6
100 W Main St (at 1st St), Alhambra, CA
Gastropub · 69 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: One of the best facets may be Harding’s Ultimate Flights, with four-beer flights organized stylistically, by guest brewery or theme, all created for the sake of variety and education.

Beachwood BBQ & Brewing is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

2. Beachwood BBQ & Brewing

210 E 3rd St, Long Beach, CA
Brewery · Promenade · 126 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Enjoy a promenade-facing patio and a wide variety of house-brewed beers, many with punny names, including a Berliner Weisse called Tart Simpson and a milk stout named Udder Love.

Beer Belly is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

3. Beer Belly

532 S Western Ave (btwn 5th & 6th St), Los Angeles, CA
Bar · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 131 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Beer Belly recently appeared on “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” and is now churning out more beer-friendly food than ever, like Death By Duck, duck fat French fries w/ duck skin cracklins & duck confit.

Blue Palms Brewhouse is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

4. Blue Palms Brewhouse

6124 Hollywood Blvd (at Gower St), Los Angeles, CA
Bar · 106 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Blue Palms has become popular with concertgoers, football fans, and craft beer aficionados, who flock to Hollywood to feast from 24 rotating tap handles.

Boneyard Bistro is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

5. Boneyard Bistro

7.6
13539 Ventura Blvd (at Allott Ave), Sherman Oaks, CA
BBQ Joint · Sherman Oaks · 63 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Boneyard has the most impressive craft beer program in the San Fernando Valley, with 42 rotating draft beers and more than 100 bottles.

Eagle Rock Brewery is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

6. Eagle Rock Brewery

3056 Roswell St (at Delay Dr.), Los Angeles, CA
Brewery · Glassell Park · 40 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Their Manifesto witbier focuses on wheat, Solidarity is a black mild that emphasizes malt and Revolution is a hop accented IPA.

Father's Office is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

7. Father's Office

8.6
3229 Helms Ave (at Venice Blvd), Los Angeles, CA
Gastropub · South Robertson · 360 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Father's Office 2.0 boasts a long bar with twin sets of 36 taps, plentiful communal tables on an upraised patio, and an increasingly sophisticated menu.

Glendale Tap is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

8. Glendale Tap

8.6
4227 San Fernando Rd (at Magnolia St), Glendale, CA
Pub · 30 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: The vintage-style interior includes a pair of red pool tables, a long wood bar, cushioned banquettes, gas handles and rusted tools behind bird wire, vintage signs for Schlitz, Hamm's and Old Style.

Golden Road Brewing is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

9. Golden Road Brewing

8.9
5410 W San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA
Brewery · North Atwater · 177 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: The pub’s up and running, they’ve got an adjacent event space and private drinking parlor, Chloe’s, plus bottling and barrel aging facilities, large-scale events, and even yoga classes on the lawn.

The Golden State is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

10. The Golden State

426 N Fairfax Ave (btwn Rosewood & Oakwood Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Burger Joint · Mid-City West · 123 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: They curate 12 taps with a keen eye for balance, as well as carry Scoops ice cream in vanilla that factors into a now notorious beef float that helped to launch the beer float trend in L.A.

Library Alehouse is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

11. Library Alehouse

8.5
2911 Main St (btwn Kinney St & Ashland Ave), Santa Monica, CA
Gastropub · Ocean Park · 137 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: The comforting Craftsman style décor and secluded back patio helped to turn Library Alehouse into a destination.

Spring St. Bar is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

12. Spring St. Bar

8.4
626 B S Spring St (btwn 6th & 7th St), Los Angeles, CA
Pub · 56 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: Their meatball sub is the biggest winner.

Verdugo Bar is one of Top Craft Beer Bars and Restaurants in LA.

13. Verdugo Bar

8.8
3408 Verdugo Rd (at Avenue 34), Los Angeles, CA
Beer Garden · Glassell Park · 51 tips and reviews

Los AngelesLos Angeles: The space is built for hanging out, with a near nightly DJ, a rotating fleet of food trucks that park in the lot, and a BBQ grill that hides behind fencing.