2of five · Bars · Echo Park
Thunderbolt
Cocktails · Southern · $$
Where Historic Filipinotown meets Echo Park: dark green walls, worn leather, an open front patio, and one of the most technically obsessive cocktail programs in the country — centrifuges, zero-waste prep, a frozen of the month. Southern food from the Park's Finest team next door, biscuits included.
Walk-inWalk in. Bar seats go first; tables fill by nine on weekends.
Go when
Early on a weeknight, on the front patio — it is a pilgrimage bar now and the room fills after nine. Closed Tuesdays.
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