The Barrel Tavern — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Love the newly renovated Barrel Tavern. From the front door to the rest rooms. No longer a dive bar, a much needed coat of paint, new tables, fresh clean floors and newly remodeled bathroom with Nouveau art, gave this space a nice open modern look. Sundays and Thursday's Kareoke is a smash hit, with very talented performers. Service was excellent! A very friendly bartender says," Hello, Im Kelly what can I get you? Keeping up with the large crowd that trickled in after 10pm, she works with a smile; once in a while her stride being interrupted by a handzy troll hanging at the end of the bar slurring his words. I asked who is that, to one of patrons... they said he was the new bar manager. Totally unnecessary touching, the male with the waxed up mustache ( photo of him playing pool included below.) kept touching the female bartender and leering at her like a creep, ew. I've heard other people mention he was drunk playing pool and throwing up his middle finger everywhere. Just thought I'd throw that in there. There is plenty Of parking, and I had fun. I recommend this place for Karaoke and a good spot to hang...

My friends and I love a good dive bar.

I felt embarrassed when I convinced 3 of my girlfriends to come try a dive we hadn't been to before. They trust my recommendations but have been roasting me ever since the Barrel.

We went to the bar area to order a drink, the bartender was nice. She was chatting with us and 2 of my friends went to see the karaoke options. So I went to sit down on the stool that one of them was sitting on. When out of nowhere, this stinky BO drunk guy elbows in between my other friend and I and sits down. I kindly tell him that we were using that stool, he refuses to get up. Luckily the bartender tells him "they were sitting there, you have to get up" - I was shocked when the guy next to us says "thats the owner, he gets like that"

Unfortunately, the bar was also extremely dirty and had a weird smell. Which makes sense because an owner that gets drunk in his own place and chases off female customers, is not spending time maintaining the bar.

This place gives dive bars a bad name. We finished our one drink and of course spent the night at Chimney Sweep instead.

Gross owner and equally gross...

What a fun place, we happened upon this bar while looking for live music, they were having a ta o truck that night so, of course we waited for that.. The GF had a margarita or 2 and swears they were really good from her memory.. I shot pool and ended up meeting a good handful of locals, all wonderful people and fun to shoot pool against.. there was fun and good people inside and out at this bar.. If/when I'm out this way, ill be back for sure . You can bring food in or eat what the guys are cooking out back.if you get there on the...