OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW THE SHOW (STARTS AROUND 10:30 PM ON TUESDAYS) FREE SHOW! PLENTY OF FREE PARKING! THE BAR IS CASH ONLY! CHILL ASS NEIGHBORHOOD! CIGARETTE STORE ACROSS THE STREET!

3100 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

The Roost has changed hands many times, and attempts to peg down an actual opening date have been unsuccessful, but the bar once had a wigwam on its roof and was called, fittingly, the Wigwam. This was likely in the 1950s or ‘60s, according to one bartender. It was also formerly known as Donna’s Red Carpet and Robin’s Roost. The notoriously heartbroken late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith used to frequent the bar, which makes sense because to this day after a given hour (around 10 p.m.) the craggy, old regulars are replaced with a consciously disheveled crowd of musicians and artists.

Places like the Roost are quickly becoming extinct in Los Angeles. The counterculture lifestyle as defined by the modern hipster is morphing into the mainstream, as is its habit of appropriating places, fashions and art once considered marginal by the masses. One day someone will buy the Roost and turn it into a fancy simulacrum of itself and you’ll be sad that you didn’t know it back when.

Mixed drinks are strong and cheap here, and something in the air at the Roost (maybe the smell of popcorn mixed with a legacy of stale smoke) makes a simple gin and tonic or vodka soda taste like the stuff of gods. Don’t be afraid to order from the well. Yeah, it’s gut-rot level stuff, but this is where you drink from the lowest shelf — and like it.

Hours

Open Daily: 12:00 pm – 2:00 am
Happy Hour: 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm DAILY

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