Boardner's

On our list of the best live music venues in Los Angeles.

Steve Boardner moved his bar into the Cherokee Building at Hollywood and Cherokee in January 1944, taking over space that had run as a Prohibition-era speakeasy behind a hair salon front. Tricia La Belle has owned it since 1999, and the room still spreads across three bars, a dance floor with its own DJ booth, and a patio built around a Moroccan tile fountain with a stage for live music. Every Saturday since the 1990s it turns into Bar Sinister, a goth and BDSM dance night with its own following. A jukebox runs when the stage sits empty, and the kitchen still serves a burger.