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http://www.westsidebarandgrill.com Westside Bar & Grill features a wide array of liquors in all price ranges (including a large selection of tequilas); Westside has four premium beers are on tap - Stella, Newcastle, Sierra Nevada and Widemer Hef and there are more than a dozen bottled brews to choose from. There is also a chilled Jagermeister tap and a few wines to choose from. The L-shaped granite-topped bar is surrounded by TVs, and a large stage sits at the other end of the room, with a single pool table just to the right of it. The stage features standup comedy on Wednesday nights; karaoke on Thursdays; and live bands playing blues, classic rock and jazz on the weekends. Vintage black-and-white photos of Costa Mesa from the '60s surround the room, as do half-circle booths with sharply-adorned paisley upholstery. Stop by Monday through Friday 3 p.m. to 6p.m. for happy hour featuring $2.50 domestic pints and $9 domestic pitchers. Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
http://www.whiskyagogo.com Of all the clubs on the Sunset Strip, the Whisky a Go-Go has the longest history and the most impressive roster of legendary musicians who've played there. Johnny Rivers christened the room with its first live performance in 1964, and the two-level club was soon the main hangout for such influential local bands as the Byrds, Love, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield and a young Alice Cooper, as well as up-and-coming out-of-town acts like Led Zeppelin, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Velvet Underground, Cream and the late Otis Redding, who recorded a classic live album there. In the late 1970s, the club expanded its booking policy to encompass punk, new wave, power pop and heavy metal groups, including the Ramones, X, the Germs, the Alley Cats, Blondie, the Last, XTC, Dead Kennedys, the Quick, Van Halen, the Plimsouls and Quiet Riot. The Whisky was shuttered for several years in the early 1980s before reinventing itself once again, this time as a hot spot for the growing hair-metal scene, with bands like Guns N' Roses and Motley Crue and, later on, such grunge outfits as Mudhoney and Nirvana and punk veterans like Vice Squad. These days, various promoters use the site to book mostly new and unknown performers, with occasional visitations from bigger-name artists. While the cages that used to enclose its namesake go-go dancers above the stage are long gone, the Whisky a Go-Go still has much of the same layout as it did in the 1960s, with standing room on the dance floor and small tables in the upstairs balcony. Unlike so many local music venues, the nightclub has always had a powerful PA, making it one of the best places to hear live music in the city. There are two full bars, and most nights admission is available to people of all ages. Paid parking is available in the lot behind the club. Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneys-california-adventure/wine-country-trattoria/?name=WineCountryTrattoriaDiningPage If you have spare cash while at Disney California Adventure and you can't bear to eat another corn dog, this is the place to get your gourmet on. Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
http://www.thewineryrestaurant.net Yvon Goetz used to be the chef at David Wilhelm's long-defunct but excellent Chat Noir. Goetz was the reason it was excellent. Now at his own place, Goetz gets even more creative and daring. His menu changes routinely, but a signature Alsatian pizza is always a staple. In it, gruyere, creme fraiche, onion and bacon fuse so well into a crisp flatbread rectangle it seems insufficient to just call it a pizza. Oysters are paired with a mignonette--as well as Tabasco, if you ask. A new English pea has spoonful after spoonful of lump crab meat, so rich that every sip must equal to one pat of butter. The halibut with clam entrée manages to be simultaneously froufrou and down-home at the same time. A roster of steaks comes with the sides à la carte, served onto your plate by obsequious wait-staff wearing vests. They'll pour sauces from dainty gravy boats and grind pepper from a ridiculously oversized mill, too. Yes, it's that kind of place--all dark and romantic with high-backed, leather-clad chairs; cozy, soft booths; and a decently talented live band should your feet get restless. You also notice there's a high concentration of signed Angels memorabilia the closer you get to the restroom. And your fellow diners are a weird mix of the casual, T-shirted dudes and the wine-twirling types who rent bottle lockers. Which one are you? Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
http://www.thewineryrestaurant.net Yvon Goetz used to be the chef at David Wilhelm's long-defunct but excellent Chat Noir. Goetz was the reason it was excellent. Now at his own place, Goetz gets even more creative and daring. His menu changes routinely, but a signature Alsatian pizza is always a staple. In it, gruyere, creme fraiche, onion and bacon fuse so well into a crisp flatbread rectangle it seems insufficient to just call it a pizza. Oysters are paired with a mignonette--as well as Tabasco, if you ask. A new English pea has spoonful after spoonful of lump crab meat, so rich that every sip must equal to one pat of butter. The halibut with clam entrée manages to be simultaneously froufrou and down-home at the same time. A roster of steaks comes with the sides à la carte, served onto your plate by obsequious wait-staff wearing vests. They'll pour sauces from dainty gravy boats and grind pepper from a ridiculously oversized mill, too. Yes, it's that kind of place--all dark and romantic with high-backed, leather-clad chairs; cozy, soft booths; and a decently talented live band should your feet get restless. You also notice there's a high concentration of signed Angels memorabilia the closer you get to the restroom. And your fellow diners are a weird mix of the casual, T-shirted dudes and the wine-twirling types who rent bottle lockers. Which one are you? Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
Wing Nuts sports a bar perfect for lunchtime imbibery: After all, it's located in a Costa Mesa shopping center. Though their specialty is wings, they have a nice little drinking area with a respectable range of choices. The decor is corrugated, metallic and aviation-themed, featuring two massive wings from an old war bird salvaged from a plane graveyard in Nevada. The walls are also decked out with vintage aviation murals. The bar is fully outfitted with hard alcohol as well as several beers on draft from Budweiser and Bud Light to Newcastle, Guinness and Fat Tire. Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
http://www.goodfoot.org/rollerdisco/info.htm To get your skate (and your skates) on, head over to Space is the Place in Mid-City, a roller disco party at World on Wheels — one of the Southland's few remaining full-scale roller disco rinks. Every fourth Saturday of the month, be-wheeled ladies and gents skate around to disco and funk and 80s, while their less-roller-inclined friends enjoy drinks and karaoke. Read more about this Orange County bar or club >>
