Barnacles Bar & Grill

Try the food, everything is great (steak, soups, sandwiches)

Don't be shy, put quarter on the pool table and get yourself in that game!

Drink Pabst, it's the cheapest in town.

Bloody Mary's good.

Jukebox is good.

Divey and old gives the place character.

If the pier is packed try Barnacles, it's usually not.

Don't feel like you have to 'dress up' like some other bars in Hermosa. (flip flops OK)

Parking totally sucks but what do you expect for Hermosa?

This is the quintessential dive bar. I am new to town and this was the first place I walked into after strolling the area. Shea was my bartender and she took great care of me. I had some of the best shrimp enchiladas, that were on special, that money can buy. Decent music playing and just welcoming people set the mood. This is the type of place that I can see calling home base. I also heard but cannot attest as of yet that the Pho is the best here. While I was there people were coming in saying it is the best they have ever had. I will be back. Five star rating for being a world class dive bar. They don't pretend to be anything else and this is the best that it gets in that regard. Sit down, shut up, and have a beer.

Dude, this place is disgusting. How it has four stars is beyond me. I've been here many times and its usally a whatever experience, but this last time really shows how far downhill this place is sliding.

Terrible service to start with. The place was empty and the bartender still took forever to take our order then grab drinks for my friend and I. I asked for a couple food menus in the meantime, figuring maybe they would be interested in us if we were going to rack up a larger tab. Nope. A few minutes later, she comes by and plops a STACK of sticky menus in front of us. Literally 10+ menus for two people. Don't know what that was about, but it seemed like some sort of weird passive aggresive gesture.

Finally she takes the time to bring us our pitcher and glasses and I sh** you not, these were the filthiest glasses I have ever seen in a food establishment. LIP PRINTS around the rim, finger prints and fuzz/dust on the inside. Gross. At this point I decided I would not be eating there, ever.

We went outside to finish our drinks so we could bounce out as quick as possible (I'd rather hang out in the bathroom at the Poop Deck than order anything else here).

Of course once we got outside, I noticed that in the past few months the bench seats have totally caved in on a few of the outdoor seats. I know its a dive bar and busted seats don't really bother me, but damn dude if you're not going to wash your dishes, at least put the money you're saving on water and soap into fixing a seat that some drunk girl is inevitablly going to crack her skull on.

I now proclaim this bar's new name as Gnarnacles.

Please follow Boogaloo's lead and go away forever.