3of five · Bars · Echo Park
The Semi-Tropic
Cocktails · Mediterranean · $$
Named for a 1900s spiritualist collective that held séances in the hills above Echo Park: cocktails with house-extracted mixers, a Mediterranean-leaning kitchen that actually cooks — patatas bravas, meatballs, the elote skillet — and a sound system tuned for conversation under a disco ball.
Walk-inWalk in. Weekend nights get loud and crowded.
Go when
Before 6pm for happy hour, or after dinner when the laptops are gone and the sound system takes over.
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