A Sports Bar? In Downtown LA? For Real?

Well, no. Not totally for real. But very close. But we're talking about a downtown LA bar open past sundown, so the Grand Ave Sports Bar gets a pass. It's physically attached to the stuffy Biltmore Hotel, but the similarities pretty much end there. The bar already has most of what a good sports bar needs: a ring of plasma TVs, some gestures toward a decent happy hour, and edible fried food. Their problem is that they lack something in the way of a critical mass of sports fans. Or anything fans. Or people. It's almost surreal: dozens of TVs, almost no people. That makes it perfect if you're looking to watch a game with a couple friends in a bar, with bar food and bar drinks. It's significantly less perfect if you're looking to get rowdy. Then again, have we mentioned how it's sports bar in downtown? Baby steps.

Grand Ave Sports Bar [Yelp]
Grand Avenue Sports Bar [CS]

[Text: Omri Ceren Photo: eyetwist/Flickr]

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