4of five · Bars · Echo Park

The Douglas

Beer bar · Bar food · $$

A corner dive at Sunset and Douglas doing the basics properly: a beer list with actual range, wine priced for a Tuesday, and a food menu bigger than a dive needs — buttermilk fried chicken sandwiches, Old Bay tater tots, vegan falafel, a rotating weekly sweet.

Walk-inWalk in. Bigger groups do better early in the evening.

Go when

Before or after a Dodgers home game, or any warm afternoon on the sidewalk — it is ten minutes from Chavez Ravine and fills accordingly.

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