"This bar on the edge of Echo Park and Historic Filipinotown has minimal signage out front, but you'll hear a live band playing from the sidewalk on most nights. Sometimes, it's a swing jazz quartet and other times, it's a ragtime pianist playing in a candlelit corner, but it's always a perfectly moody evening with a great beer and wine selection, too. So sit down, grab a glass, and put those thousands of dollars you spent on improv classes to use by listening." - brant cox, sylvio martins