Silver Lake

A queer neighborhood bar open on Sunset since 1996, with a happy hour that starts at 4pm and a back bar with a dance floor that opens later in the evening. No cover most nights.

Daily, 4pm to 2am

A Cuban bakery that has been on this corner of Sunset since 1975, best known for the guava and cheese pastelito and the cubano. It closed in late 2023 and reopened in March 2024 under new owners who kept the menu where it was.

Tue to Sun, 7am to 3pm. Closed Monday

Rudy Del Campo, a dancer who appeared in West Side Story, opened this on Hyperion in 1962 with his wife Helen and his sister Beatriz. The family still runs it. Downstairs is the Cavern Club Theater, which has been staging drag and cabaret under the restaurant for decades.

Mon to Thu 11:30am to 9pm. Fri and Sat 11am to 10pm. Sun 11am to 9pm

Opened in December 2005 in the old Le Bar, later Le Barcito, which was a Latino gay bar on this corner for years. The theme is Tijuana souvenir shop: thatched ceiling, sombreros, blacklight paintings, drag queen portraits and oversized black booths. There is a photo booth and a foosball table. A separate Cha Cha Lounge has run in Seattle since 1998 under the same brand.

5pm to 2am every day.

The concrete public stairway Laurel and Hardy hauled a piano up in The Music Box, which won the 1932 Academy Award for short comedy. It is still an ordinary right of way between Vendome and the houses above, and there is a small City park called Laurel and Hardy Park in the triangle at the foot of it with a marble plaque put up in 1992. In June 2024 the City Council voted to name the intersection for the film, so there is a street sign now as well.

Public stairway, open at all times. Park hours are not published.

Ted Mandekic and Edward Pagliano opened this in 1959 as an Olde English pub and turned it German in 1963. It has been in the Mattis family since. Beer comes in one-liter boots and Mass krugs, servers wear dirndls, and there is live music and a piano on the lower floor. The draw for most people is the biergarten patio upstairs.

Open to 2am every night. Opening is either noon on weekdays and 11am on the weekend, or 11am daily depending on which listing you read. Happy hour is reported Monday to Friday noon to 5pm.

A 2.2 mile path of dirt and pavement around the Silver Lake and Ivanhoe basins, with a three-acre meadow on the east side that has been open to the public since 2011. The path is not gated. Dogs are fine on the loop and not on the meadow.

Path open and ungated. The dog park at the south end runs 6am to 10pm