It’s an old tradition in which at any given moment across the last 100 years there is at least one place with a Sunset Boulevard address anointed as being the “it” bar.
Hidden next to a pizzeria, an Arts District bar and club serves Italian disco vibes and cocktails made with fun in mind.this is in many senses an intimate bar, close-quartered, that old 20th century “where strangers become friends” thing. Snippets of conversation ping-pong all around you at Prado, off the boulevard and bartop, inside and out. “,” says a couple as they duck together, both of them, into the nongender bathroom.
I ask Keith Phillips what brings him out to El Prado tonight. “I love how it feels European,” he tells me. “Tables are gathered, like, out into the street, and we’re all hanging out — but you don’t have to be dressed up. You can come here dressed sh—.” Marc Lopez disagrees. “I think this place is pretty chic,” they tell me. “Well — the men wear whatever they want, of course, but everyone else is dressed up and it’s beautiful.”
I ask Keith if he’s been to Europe before, and he hasn’t, and I ask Marc where they work, and they mention another natural wine bar in the neighborhood. “I just love the disco ball here, don’t you?” they ask. “It’s so … you know …Back inside it’s midnight and the bar is really roaring now, more and more people just arriving, the ball glittering and the mercury dropping.
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