The Top 19 Cocktail Bars Near Real Charmer

1. Punch Real Charmer Daiquiri · Our Favorite Cocktails
2. Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
3. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. West

1. The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
2. 50 Best #93 · The World's 50 Best Bars
3. VinePair Food & Beverage Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards

1. 50 Best #68 · North America's 50 Best Bars
2. Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar

1. Esquire The Best Bars in America
2. Difford's Guide 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide

1. The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
2. 50 Best #92 · North America's 50 Best Bars
3. 50 Best Sustainable Bar Award

1. Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Linda Douglas
2. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
3. Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West

The entry corridor sets the tone: a wall-sized photo of the old Famous Department Store, vintage neighborhood shots lining the walls, and classic films rolling on the screens inside this cocktail lounge tucked into Glendale's historic Huntley-Evans building. Live bands and DJs take over on weekends. Most of the crowd is passing through before or after the Americana at Brand across the street, which makes the retro-local atmosphere feel like a quiet act of mild resistance.

1. Difford's Guide 3 stars · Difford's Guide

1. Esquire The Best Bars in America
2. Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
3. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West

1. Punch Best New Bartenders · Kevin Nguyen
2. Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
3. Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants

1. Esquire Olive Drive · The Best Martinis in America
2. Wildsam The 50 Most Essential Bars in America
3. Esquire The Best Bars in America

A French spirits lounge on Melrose where the cocktail menu is divided into categories named Parfum and Potion, which tells you immediately what kind of evening they have in mind. The team also runs La Descarga and Harvard & Stone, so the theatrics are deliberate. Low lighting, a Parisian lounge sensibility, and a crowd that dressed for it. The menu leans heavily on calvados, armagnac, and eau de vie, which is either your thing or a prompt to try something new.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide

1. Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West

A New Orleans cocktail bar where the inside has been dressed up to look like an outdoor street scene, the way a film studio backlot would imagine the French Quarter. Barrel-aged cocktails are the house move, and the 1920s theme is committed enough that someone looked up the etymology of sassafras before naming the place. The crowd tends toward people who wanted something more atmospheric than a standard Hollywood dive.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide

Inside the Hauser & Wirth arts complex in the Arts District, Manuela is a restaurant and bar where conceptual art hangs on the walls and the cooking tilts Southern with a serious commitment to local ingredients, some grown in their own garden. Cocktails use house-made bitters and tonics, and the food is the kind that makes a gallery crowd linger well past closing time.

1. Punch Archie · Our Favorite Cocktails
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

You reach Caña by walking through a parking garage in the base of a historic Petroleum Building until a podium appears, which is the kind entrance policy that filters out the uncommitted. Inside, a corridor lined with rum bottles leads to a wood-panelled room with leather banquettes and a ribbed concrete ceiling. It's a rum cocktail bar that takes the spirit seriously, and the dim lamplight makes everyone look like they have good taste.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide

1. Difford's Guide 3 stars · Difford's Guide

1. 50 Best #44 · North America's 50 Best Bars
2. Punch Best New Bars
3. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Bar

The name is literal: a neighborhood cocktail bar tucked into a quiet stretch of Washington Boulevard in Culver City, the part of LA better known for art galleries than drinking. Inside, it's casual and intimate, the kind of room that fills up with locals and after-work regulars who seem to have quietly agreed not to tell anyone else about it. The bartenders lean toward inventive riffs on classics.

1. Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide

1. Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
2. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
3. Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West