We ended the night here and well, our friend Daniel was right...it's a pretty chill barfly spot where regulars come here to congregate, watch sport games, shoot pool or just shoot the shit. One of the bartenders is this Russian lady and she's so sweet! She was very pleased when we ordered Chopin and tonics and she was happy that we knew our vodka! She gave us a round on the house.
It's pretty divey so don't expect a fancy lounge type deal. Music was on point especially it coming from a e-jukebox. I was happy enough to hear Dawn Penn's "No No No" reggae joint.
Loved this place. After being let down by a few bars, I took the chance here. First I had to check the list of rules posted on the front door, which were comical, but poignant, and upon entering, I could see why. It's a small place, but friendly. I sat at the bar and what whet my appetite immediately was the Stone IPA on tap. Asked for one, and the bartender asked if I wanted the regular one or the big one. What the hell, "the big one," I said. He set down a frosty 32oz mug of that glorious beverage in front of me and I knew I had come to the right place. Decent prices, sports on the TV, and I got to chatting with one of the guys next to me, not about sports, but about how he was doing. May be just me, but I like a more personal conversation at the bar. I'll definitely be going there again.
Review Source:The 5 stars are really for the pickled eggs. Â Well, the rest of the Red Room is pretty great but the eggs are the star of the show for me. Â Bartender Blake has created his own recipe. Â It is similar to Joe Jost's but with something a little extra. Â They're only a buck and come served in a small boat with pretzels accompanied by slices of pickled carrots and onions. Â I can easily say that these are the best pickled eggs around, not including mine of course!
I've only been in here once when Blake wasn't working. Â Service has been good and the drink prices reasonable. Â Blake recently created a vegetarian bloody mary (who knew Worcestershire sauce has traces of anchovy?) with tomatillo juice. Â Obviously it doesn't taste like a normal bloody but it's not too bad...give it a try!
The crowd always seems to be a little different each time but we've always had a blast.
Thanks for everything Red Room.
Was here yesterday. The bartender Dana is awesome. Drinks are great, service is friendly and the crowd consist of the usual LBC oddities. A Pub Crawl rolled in halfway through my stay turning the place from quiet to riot in short order. It is what it is, and it gets 4 stars for being so.
Parking blows, and the city does chalk your tires for the time limit on the street, don't go for cheap drinks and leave with an expensive parking ticket - watch your watch and move your ride when needed.
I live within walking distance of Red Room and I love it. I love Red Room. I only dinged one star because it is kind of dark and if it gets too crowded, one can feel stuck or trapped.
Back to the good things: the drinks are strong and cheap, the regulars are a real treat to hang out with, and they also have a pool table. It's my new favorite dive bar.
They've also stepped up security recently which is reassuring to females.
I used to come here allllllllll the time, and I decided to come here for a bar crawl with some friends.
I will NEVER return.
Their drink prices were ridiculously different from any other time I've come, it was more for a tap plastic cup of Blue Moon than a premium well drink?!
And the bartenders completely ignored us for at least 10 minutes, flagging us down saying they saw us and then kept helping others.
Tsk tsk Blake.
Ah...The Red Room....
I will fully admit to being a Red Room rat. The drinks are cheap, the bartenders are amazing and of course it has the best bouncer on the face of this planet. I'd definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for amazing, cheaply priced libations. Keep in mind that it's incredibly small!! Small and comfy! Â
Dana and Josh-- You make my Thursdays and Saturdays a blur, and I adore you for this.
John and Harry Connick Jr-- You're amazing!! The most handsome men in the city!
Two words: midnight madness. From midnight to 1 AM, at least on the night I was here, all mix drinks are $1.50. This is probably the reason why I do not remember much of my night afterward, except that I stopped to urinate in two different parking lots and ate a disgusting amount of potatoes at my friend's apartment. The drinks were good for being a buck fifty, but the lemon slice in my whiskey sour had a strange mushy kind of texture. (Of course I always eat the lemon slice in a whiskey sour. Every part of the buffalo mang.)
Space is a little limited, which means that if you want to play pool, you're going to have to ask people at the bar to move for up to a third of your shots. The bathroom also has saloon style doors and the toilet faces out towards the main room, so I would be very wary of taking a dump here. This is also the only bar where I have been scanned with a wand before I could enter. This probably means I don't go to enough bars.
This place is tiny but it's a fun little dive bar located in the ghetto of LBC. Parking is scarce and you'd be lucky to find a spot adjacent to the bar so find something on a nearby street and you'll be set.
I love the red tones and the bartenders are super friendly. They also pour a stiff drink so be prepared. Service is fast and the drinks are cheap. They also have TVs lined up against the wall for your enjoyment.
For the better part of three years, my husband and I have been mocking the Red Room. Something about all the TVs and how from the outside it appears to be this gigantic sports bar, complete with bouncers out front and a rope. It practically BEGS to be given the middle finger.
Lately, though, we've decided to start branching out after our old watering hole became a black hole of suckitude and assholery.
This means not only going to the bars we've always wanted to try, but going to the bars we've always made fun of.
"So, uh. Red Room tonight?"
"Ugh. Okay. Let's just get it over with."
The second we stepped in, we knew the joke was on us. Red Room is AWESOME. Every few minutes, I'd see something else that would have me giving it points in its favor:
Blake the Bartender is really cool.
The patrons seem interesting (like a squid fisherman?!).
The pours are heavy.
Here, nosh on this serving of pretzels, cheez-its and m&ms.
Mmm, look at that gigantic jar of pickled eggs.
"The Walk" by The Cure on the jukebox.
Booker's, Bulleit, Bulleit Rye, Knob Creek.
All that for $22.50.
Oh, Red Room, we are not done with you! Branching out is turning out to be the best decision we ever made, after deciding to name our guest room the "Baby's Room." (We have no babies).
The Red Room is this cool little dive bar on 4th St in Long Beach. Â There's no parking lot so you'll have to park on the street and make your trek there. Â It's not far from Pizza Hut so you can technically grab a pizza and bring it into the bar with you! Â Drinking and pizza, ah those were the days. Â Oh wait, that might have been last week! Â
The bartenders are really nice and they pour a stiff drink. Â The service is fast and the drinks are cheap. Â There's a pool table and an updated touchscreen jukebox. Â Very cool. Â Check out the Red Room if you go barhopping because you might just like it. Â It's kind of small so it tends to get crowded. Â Don't be surprised if the doorman keeps you outside.
Small bar @corner of street with red awning..
Great chill & relaxed place to hang out w friends ;-)
Bartenders are so nice & kool here
Shout out to a great bartender Blake ;-) thanks 4 being so awesome!! ;-)
Has a nice red pool table where you can play a round of pool w/friends..
Plenty of TVs to watch any game that your heart desires =)
Well what can one say about your local watering hole... Your local give bar with friends who you see only when you're about 8 beers deep?
What can I say? Nothing bad!
The bartender we usually get has a good heavy hand and is fun to talk to! Always has a smile on his face and happy to help. The pool table is usually full with decent players, but more importantly, RARELY sharks... That's one of my biggest pet peeves, going to shoot a little pool and one guy is much better than everyone else, making it un-enjoyable for the other amateurs like myself.
Relatively cheap drinks (always strong), good music, TV's are always tuned to local sports, fun people to talk to, and good service. My kind of place...
There are about 4 other bars on this same street within about a 1 miles radius, but my fiance and I always come here... Maybe not our first stop every time, but it;s always the last and where we stay the longest!
My favorite dive bar in Long Beach!
Cheap drinks, great specials, delicious pickled eggs...
Some of the best bartenders around:
James - one of the best bartenders in LB and stoked that he is at the Red Room!
Dana - the reason I have been a Red Room customer for years! Totally love her!
Blake - great eggs, great bartender and always good conversation.
Please excuse me for not remembering all the other great bartender's names as I've never had bad service here!
Nice mix of people coming in here during the day and evening. Â It does get super packed in the evenings so make sure you come early if you actually want a seat.
3rd stop on the Great 4th St Bar Crawl of 2012: Perhaps Sunday afternoons aren't the most rockin' times to visit the Red Room. It was filled with old men watching sports. My friends and I aren't the most sporting type, so we were kinda bummed by the lack of music. BUT, the drinks are stiff and cheap, and it was a mellow, friendly vibe so no major complaints. A couple more friends joined us so we had a fine old time anyway. Not that dark in here, either--actual sunlight entering through the windows, what kind of dive is this?
Review Source:Cheap Drinks. Need I say more? Â Maybe...
Came her for the first time last weekend. I was a little drunk by the time i got here but this place is soo cool. Dark, and lots of people. There is at least one pool table that seems to always have people playing at it.
This place got me happily addicted to RedBull and Vodkas with a twist and a maraschino cherry. YES!
The Red Room is a really cool dive bar. Its a pretty small bar, has one pool table, and around 3-5 small tables with stools. Every time that I've come here I've never seen a DJ, just a Juke Box that's out of order. Really friendly and down to earth bartender named Blake he also sells pickled boiled eggs for a dollar. The reason why I love coming here is because its:
- low-key
-no cover
-very cheap drinks! ($4 White Russians, full bar)
They usually have drink special $12 blue moon pitchers can't go wrong with that! And the only minus about this place its that they have a $20 minimum for credit cards.
Great Dive bar. I've always loved Long Beach for their nightlife, and The Red Room is definitely one of the places to hangout and get some liquor in your liver.
If you're looking to dance, Red room might not be the place to try out. But they definitely have great service with knowledgeable bartenders. Cheap drinks, and if you like drinking beer, they have tall cans up for grabs.
Don't be to impressed with the bathroom. Enjoy random things? Some days they post skateboarding videos.
Wide diversity of people at this bar, with a lively attitude.
As long as I'm at least buzzed upon arrival, Red Room is a good time. Â You WILL get someones pale flabby arm rubbed in your face and probably your boobs pressed up against someones back if you try to move at all but hey, we're all friends here, right? IT'S VERY SMALL.
When I leave Red Room my slight buzz has turned into full fledged drunk and I'm probably on my way to Hole Mole. DRINKS ARE STRONG.
I want to say credit cards have a $20 minimum. Â Dollar beers and $3 drinks on Wednesday nights!
Oh, 2006 Hazel. You thought you were so clever with your thumbs up/thumbs down quips, and being FTR at the hipsteriest dive in Long Beach. Future Hazel is slightly embarrassed of how serious you were, but still proud of that FTR stamp.
Things have changed since 2006: Gleek means something totally different now, people were unemployed just for the hell of it, and skinny jeans were still stuck in the 80s. You know what hasn't changed? The glory that is The Red Room.
Well... except for the jukebox. They've gone the way of nearly every other place to one of those newfangled ones where you can pick anything you want. RIP Best Jukebox in Long Beach. I guess I'll always have the jukebox at The Pike.
Maybe I just happened at the right time on the right night, but The Red Room wasn't nearly as balls hot or overcrowded as I remembered, but the drinks were as stiff and as cheap. And the bartenders haven't changed a bit, still good ol' Dayna and resident friendly hipster (an oxymoron, I know), Josh.
Ah, I'd like to share more memories of The Red Room, but sadly (or luckily) they are all wiped away by the time I wake up with the hangover from hell... and too many drinks during midnight madness.
Things I like about Red Room:
- pickled eggs (I'd like to have one or more at all times, including now)
- $3 schooners
- cheap ass, strong ass and you're on your ass drinks
- the jukebox
Things I don't like about Red Room:
- everyone either looks or dresses the same. It's creepy, and slightly irritating.
- the jukebox. Some people buy the shittiest music, and lots of it.
- something weird happens here every time.
Word to the wise: this is not the place to try and pick up chicks unless you have the hair and ass the size of Texas and you're a little black dude wearing a green polo with huge headphones on. Yeah, I called you both out.
So I haven't been inside the Red Room in years due to it always being hot and crowded. But I figured I'd walk over on St. Patrick's since I was in the neighborhood....and I gotta agree with the Yelpers giving them 1 and 2 stars.
Yes the place gets super crowded with hipsters! Yes, it's too small to have a pool table! Yeah the skateboarding videos get old and boring.
But I don't know what's everyone's deal with the bartenders?? Dayna is awesome! She's sweet and friendly and always makes you awesome drinks! I don't know the name of the other two guys (sorry) but they have always been friendly.
This place is cool to hang out at....you just have to do it on a weeknight. Or early in the evening on the weekends...like around 8pm. I know, I know who wants to drink during at that time....apparently my friends and I! LOL
We were there last Thursday night and there were plenty of seats available. Dayna made a special shot for us and we all got a schooner of our favorite brew for only $6.50...that price alone deserves 5 stars!
So yeah people if you are out visiting your friends who live in Long Beach and hate crowded places don't come here. If you don't like skinny jean & funny hat wearing hipsters don't come here.
That way there's more room for those of us who actually like the place :)
Yes I am aware of the fact that I'm contradicting myself within one review. But that's just how I roll...I'm a walking contradiction.
Ohhhh the Red Room.
If you're like me and like to drink heavily for a shockingly low price, then you will probably fit right in here. The drinks are super strong and also super cheap. People like to complain about this place being totally overrun by hipsters.....but I don't really get that, maybe because I am one? dun dun dun! Nah, i'm not quite that cool.
I get that people complain about it being small because, guess what? It's really really small. I think this adds to its charm, however. Unless you happen to be standing in the area of the pool table and are constantly playing a game of frogger where you are the frog and the cars about to hit you are the pool sticks. What makes up for this tinyness is the jukebox.....most definitely one of the better jukeboxes in Long Beach and at only a dollar a song.....why not, you know?!
They also have pickled eggs, bags of chips, pretzels and slim jims for your fine dining pleasure. But what keeps bringing me back to this illustrious Long Beach dive bar? $6 liters of beer, duh!
p.s. Dollar beer Wednesdays, seriously.
The Red Room is quite possibly the only dive bar in the LBC that I enjoy going to and always have a phenomenal time.
It's a small hole in the wall, dirty and almost raunchy sort of place but I love it. No bull, no gimmicks (well except for the $1 a song jukebox that totally stole my money twice!). There's one pool table in the center of the bar that to this day I still don't understand why its there because there's barely any space to sit let alone stand in that bar. The drinks are always great and if you get the right bartender, they can be even greater (blondie, winkwink). I have been here... a lot. And not once have I left this place anywhere close to sober.
Bottom line: cheap drinks, one toilet per sex, small with not enough seating, but its a guarantee good time. With a friend, with a small group, doesn't matter. As long as you all get in and all have a drink in your hand, it's all gravy baby.
i.e. Funny Story: The last time I was there during the summer a gnarly girl fight broke out between a hipster chick with massive plugs and a blonde sparkly dress wearing chick. Dudes let them go at it right until blondie almost get her head crushed. It was pretty sick. After the bouncer kicked out blondie, tell me how in the hell she managed to get back into the bar (!) then literally ponce on the other chick like a cat, they hit the pool table then the floor again. This fight took place literally beneath my feet while sitting on a bar stool. Good times.
Two words for you, Red Room. EROTIC PHOTOHUNT. I get so damn excited whenever I see that filthy ass game in a bar! After getting 'tude from the crappy bartender at Ferns a couple weeks ago, we decided to walk down to the Red Room. The bartender here kinda gave lip too, but I was too engaged with finding differences between sets of various 80's porn pics. Literally, for like an hour. A huge Blue Moon and titties. Can you really ask for more?
Haha, but seriously... I do kinda like this place. Its a liiiittle nicer than Ferns, but still definitely a dive bar., Good drink prices, seems to be a decent crowd. I can't really decipher how much of a regular I will be until I get to know it a bit better. Update soon!
But for now... 4 stars. Minus one for the bartender getting shitty with me when I asked for the time. But from what I have read, it doesn't seem to be a very rare occurance. WTF is up with some of these  bartenders thinking they rule the world? Newsflash, asshole- your piss-poor attitude is only going to make your tip count suffer. Have a drink and calm the F down. Thanks! :)
Long Beach is supposed to be the attitude-free place to get trashed, and I only wish that all the patrons here new that.
The hipsters and their oversized 'tudes can get this bar can get a bit crowded. But the bartenders have been nothing if not awesome. And the beers.... oh, those gigantic, practically free bucket-sized jugs o' PBR....
This bar is a good bet for a great time.
Jesus Christo bleeding on a cross: this place is oftentimes filled with people so special that many need to be put in special education. Â It is hipster central -- bright, gaudy, metallic tights and all. Â The moment 10:00 hits, you'll find your face in a sweaty Morrissey shirt and your back pressed up against some overweight dude in a V-neck that is much too low.
However, there is a flipside: hit the place between 6 and 8pm and you'll be golden. Â Their beers are cheap (make sure to get the big one -- don't let 'em jip you with a pint) and they typically have a special beer on tap. Â Between these times, the old drunks have typically moved out but the bloggers have yet to move in. Â The bartenders are always chill and one dude typically plays Miles Davis or Chet Baker -- the perfect sound for the Red Room.
So have a beer or four before 8 and then stumble down to the Pike for better beer, better music, better bartenders and room enough to where you actually don't have to absorb someone else's sweat as they stand on you.
Under the microscope.
This is a good place. Â I don't skate anymore, don't have any tattoos, don't have a slacker attitude and don't have thick black rimmed glasses and they were STILL super nice to our group. Â The word going around town is that this has a history of being a skater bar. Â You'll see why when you roll in and there are decks all over the wall.
Also, there are mirrors everywhere. Â You can't hide!
My cocktails were so strong that I pissed on the ground and could hear the cement howling for respite as a crater was burned down to the center of the earth. Â It was some sci-fi shit, dewd.
Don't half  step.  Go here early so that you can have a place to stand or sit.
This Week the district pretty much combined my "Long Beach Dating Politics Review" and my review of the red room. Funny none the less..
BEST EX SEX: THE RED ROOM 'Scuse us, 'scuse us, sorry, 'scuse us: the Red Room might need a trap door for that pool table--we're thinking of Scooby Doo--but it remains the best questionable decision you'll make all night. When you have to have that one last drink, when you have to "reconnect" with that ex of yours from four years ago, when you have to feel all weird and creepy because everyone seems so much younger now, the Red Room is your destination. There's whiskey. There's skateboards. There's tight pants and someone trying to sweet talk you out of them. You'll walk away feeling great about yourself--Keep drinking! Don't let it fade!--until the morning, when you'll vow never again. But you always do. Some things just feel right. And the Red Room always does.
About 8 years ago I walked into this dark, dank bar. Â There were maybe 5 patrons sitting at the mercy of the bartender. Â The number of people actually in the bar outnumbered the amount of teeth present in the mouths of those patrons. Â Leary, shifty eyed anonymous folk drank here and the people that hung around outside sported black eyes and concealed bottles of Night Train or Mad Dog mumbling obscenities at me as I shit my pants and walked as fast as I could to save my life.
Fast forward to last night. Â What am I in Hollywood? Who the fuck is at the front door? Â A fucking crowd-controlling bouncer? Â No way! Â
Inside is a crowd of people actually looking like they're having a good time? Â I was floored. Â The bartenders were strangely super happy. Â The old lady thought she knew me from somewhere and gave me some secret wink. Â I said, o, I'm not who you think I am. Â Unless she remembered me from 8 years ago, the one customer with all her teeth.
I was soooo hammered by the time I got here. Â But lucky for me I'm such a happy drunk with a good attitude. People seemed nice. Â My last drink set me over the edge. Â And I left pretty fuckin happy that I didn't shit my pants leaving this time around.
I swear this used to be daddy's lounge. Â
I lost a bunch of weight many, many years ago and regularly attempted to score some local tail on very repetitive wednesday nights. Â There was some stiff competition though and I usually ended up alone. I remember lots of videos about skateboarding and reasonably-priced drinks. Â Fond memories ahoy!
I apologize in advance for using "local tail." Â It was part of the narrative. Â It happens.
Most of my friends hate this place, but I think it's just dandy. (I wish they hadn't taken out the popcorn machine, though--that thing was awesome.)
Yes, the neighborhood is kind of scary. (I almost rented an apartment right above and behind the bar--I loved it in the daylight but when I came back one evening to sign the paperwork I quickly changed my mind as the complex had morphed into crackhead- and gang-central.) Yes, the bar is small. Yes, it gets too crowded. Yes, it's annoying to have pool cues shoved in your back.
But for some reason, I really enjoy it here. The bartenders are all very nice and friendly, the drinks are relatively cheap and strong, and the jukebox has a very wide selection.
My advice: Show up early (before 10:00) on a Friday night, grab a seat at the bar, drink a white gummy bear, and leave when the masses come flooding in around midnight.
This was our first stop...
Good strong drinks..... and cheap........ friendly bar tenders...
Boys in sailor hats with stank breath! (YUM)
Boys that play air guitar (lame)
I was told that we were brave to walk here from my friends home.. So, I guess that it can be sketchy around here..
I hate this bar, I always have.
I used to come here often but I blame that on the fact I lived 2 blocks from it and have an affinity for booze. Â Too small so it seems crowded even when there's only a few people. The jukebox doesn't suck but it is super average. This place should not have a pool table, there just isn't enough room. It reminds me of that scene in "The Jerk" when Steve Martin thinks he's moving into the bathroom. Also this bar has a really sleazy vibe, I think it might be because it's so small you can hear people's conversations or catch little things going on around you that probably go on in every bar but not right in your face. Â The majority of the people wear vintage or thrift store clothing which strikes me as funny when they are all hitting on each other and trying to fuck because I imagine this is what the underside of a bridge would look like if it was red.
*Edit*
The last time I went to the red room (about a week ago) I apparently came home, told my boyfriend that I "totally could have made out with like, so many guys", woke up the next morning with a bruised right hand, and everything I own in my truck was on top of the hood.
So, sorry to whoever I punched and apparently I had a really good time.*
Ah the red room. The place to go to cheat on your boyfriend, make out with gay men, hang out with your friends, do shots with the bartenders, and go home with someone who's name you won't remember the next day.
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