The Chestnut Club - Santa Monica Bar - Cocktails - Happy Hour 5-7pm

"If you’re looking to get rowdy and make a few mistakes but drink well-made cocktails while you’re doing it, Chestnut Club is where you go. The craft cocktail bar is located in that strange, sleepy stretch of inland Santa Monica, but it still gets all-out mobbed on the weekends. So get there early or prepare to wait in line. Or just go during the week when things have calmed down considerably, and you can drink in peace. " - brant cox, sylvio martins, nikko duren

"It’s a Friday night, and you don’t have anywhere you have to be in the morning. The problem is, your regular Friday night spot has gotten boring, mainly because every person there is from the same Groundlings class as you. Change things up, and go to the Chestnut Club in Santa Monica. Get here early so you don’t have to wait in line to get drunk on vodka-sodas and dance to T-Pain with someone that won’t ask you to be in her rom-com web series the next morning." - brett keating