Where To Pick Up A Dirty Hipster In Los Angeles

There’s no beer on tap at this chintzy Mexican-themed bar, but that doesn’t stop hipsters from lining up at the door. There are ample opportunities to flirt with your hipster crush here. Buy them a glass of PBR—how ironic! Suggest a game of foosball—how ironic! Or if you’re feeling super ballsy suggest a make-out session in the photo booth—how ironic!

Where to go after that awesome show at the Echo? The Brite Spot of course! The food isn’t that good, the prices aren’t that cheap, but who cares! This orange-colored diner has a resident DJ, so you can have a dance party while you eat your hash browns. Feel free to bat your eyelashes when you ask to borrow ketchup from anyone with long bangs and tats.

Since this place is open till the wee hours of the morning (around 3am) it’s the perfect place to go when you don’t feel like going home at 2am. The food is pretty good, the hipsters are plentiful, and there’s even the odd celebrity sighting, so you and your object of affection can talk about how lame Ryan Gosling is for starring in “The Notebook” while you watch him eat his pancakes.

If you really want to see bands that no one else has heard of, this is your place. But don’t come here if you’re expecting to go bowling (the lanes are now defunct). The bar is on the dirty, smelly side, so you won’t be hard pressed to find someone who also fulfills those criteria.

Fairfax High School’s Sunday morning flea market is hipster central thanks to the vintage clothes and homemade goods that are sold there. While perusing old record players and cowboy boots casually remark out loud that your new wave-inspired band is in need of a drummer or lead singer. If anyone looks up consider your conquest made.

This dive bar is a good hipster litmus test, as it tends to draw the real hipsters as opposed to the poseurs. This place is pretty bare-bones so don’t expect anything special (no draught beers, no foosball, no photo booth). But the drinks are strong, the popcorn is free, and the price is right.

Is there an echo in here? No, but there are tons of vintage-wearing indie types. This venue is a good place to see local, up-and-coming bands, plus they have some good DJ nights where club kids come to dance like they just don’t care. Feel free to hit on anything that’s drunk and slightly sweaty.

This is where local bands play before they get famous and are played every 5 minutes on KROQ. Cold War Kids, check. Silversun Pickups, check. The sound here is loud, so be prepared to use sign language to tell everyone that you heard the band five years ago when they were still playing in people’s backyards.

This Echo Park bar used to be an old cop hangout (extra hipster points right there). But the secret has been out about this place for quite a while, so expect a line on the weekends. If you don’t mind the wait, you’ll encounter cheap drinks, pool, a dance floor, a photo booth, and a free jukebox stocked with good music once you get in.

This Mexican bar has been recently discovered by hipsters, so you can say that you went there before it was completely overrun by the gentrified crowd. The decor is of the bright ’n cheesy 80s variety, but the drinks are cheap, and they give out free tacos! Case closed.

This 24-hour diner is hipster central anytime of day. How they stay so skinny after partaking of Fred’s “tower” sandwiches and breakfast enchiladas is anybody’s guess. Take advantage of the late-night factor—ask the hottie in the skinny jeans if they were at Spaceland earlier that night.