Jay's Bar

What a dive bar in 2013 should be...

Very good beers, though not an amazing selection by current standards.  But decent enough to not get bored in a sitting.

Food is hit or miss, but I have to admit, the tempeh sandwich is del-goddamned-icious. Everything else is passable, but again, it's a dive-ish bar... you're there to drink, talk, laugh and get some drinks in you.  

Lighting that resembles a cave, it's the right mood foot-candle for a bar of this ilk.  

Now I'm a big-time hater of TV's at bars and restaurants... but for this place, I'll give them a pass.  Just two plasmas at either end, and the endless nostalgic punk rock pulsating out of the jukebox earns Jay's Bar a pass.

Strangely, you can always seem to get a seat at Jay's.  As spots in LA become the darling of the neighborhood, so goes the seating.  Not the case at Jay's.  Perhaps it's the size or the billions of drinking options in the area, but this is a key factor in my coming back to Jay's.

Jay's is great!

I love having a bar like this 20 steps from my door. It's the only bar I feel fine going to alone. That sounded like an alcoholic thing to say. I'm definitely not. I've only gotten drunk there once. Stop judging me, yelp.

Good tap, good music, awesome staff, full bar (they actually know how to make drinks that don't have an "and" in them, too).

The menu is a tad weird but the food is good.

Figured it was about time to write a positive review on here....no better place to start than Jay's.

The good:

- Good drinks, interesting menu selection
- Good food
- Nice atmosphere

The bad:

- Looks like an abandon laundrymat from the outside
- A bit pricey

Come here and enjoy it.  The Kitchen is across the street and this inverts its great food:alcoholic beverage ratio.  If that's arcane, deal with it, I've been drinking moonshine all night