"This Atwater Village wine spot is a hybrid shop-slash-bar, complete with a small theater where a few times a week you can catch a comedy show or live music. The entire bar glows red like a darkroom at a photo studio and the clog-clad clientele treats the roomy cellar like a lo-fi lounge. At Baby Battista, the short, rotating wine list is filled with bizarre-sounding options like “hipster animal” and “jauma disco,” but you can also snag that bottle of chilled red you already love from the shop upstairs for a $20 corkage fee. They’ve also got charcuterie you can snack on while watching whoever is on stage from the comfort of a decades-old loveseat." - brant cox, arden shore, sylvio martins