Orla Bar

On our list of the best cocktail bars in Los Angeles.

This bar sits in the middle of the Regent Santa Monica hotel lobby, drenched in natural light with views of the resort pool deck through indoor-outdoor seating. Bartenders shake and stir a full menu of cocktails, spirits, wine and beer, and the outdoor patio looks toward the ocean and the pier, worth requesting over a table inside the bright lobby. It keeps later hours than the daytime restaurant it is attached to, open past midnight on weekends.