Landmark Dive Bar Was A Beach Cities Institution On The Strand By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Hermosa Beach Blogger I wish it were an April Fool's joke. But the only joke here is what's going in its place. The Deck bar – for many of its years it was Poop Deck and many locals still call it that – in Hermosa Beach, CA, is closing for good in 2021. Taking its … [Read more...]
Super Bowl Weekend In Hermosa & Redondo Beach Events, Bars & Nightlife
10K Run, Local Bands Plus Eagles & Patriots Bars By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Blogger Welcome to the PubClub.com Party Report for Super Bowl weekend, a rundown of events, bands & bars in Hermosa & Redondo Beach. SUPER BOWL 10K The South Bay is a unique place to be for Super Bowl Sunday because for many, the day starts with this … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Bars NFL Sunday Food & Drink Specials
Bottomless Mimosas, Breakfast Happy Hours & Transplanted Football Fans The Pier Every fall Sunday, the bars of Hermosa Beach are packed with fans watching NFL games. Transplants from NFL cities gather to watch their hometown team. Or maybe they are not really fans, but simply know a good time, and like to go out because it's a good time on the Hermosa pier. Part … [Read more...]
Tower 12 Hermosa Beach Sunday Nights Acoustic Music Review
A Band & Sensational Crowd Make This A Popular South Bay Weekend Bar Hangout By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Nightlife Blogger It is a late Sunday afternoon in Hermosa Beach, California, one of the small beach communities in Los Angeles. The sun is beginning its daily decent into the blue Pacific Ocean, beach volleyball games are wrapping up and … [Read more...]
Tower 12 Hermosa Beach Happy Hour Food & Drink Specials & The Crowd
Big Beers, Great Food & A Total Beach Cities Singles Scene By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger & South Bay Local It's been a while since the South Bay has had a go-to Happy Hour. The kind of place where on Fridays, you start cleaning up your work desk at 4 preparing to bolt out the door precisely at 5. Where the crowd is not only good but South Bay … [Read more...]
KIller Shrimp At The Mermaid Merges Hermosa Beach Bar & Restaurant
One Of South Bay's Favorite Watering Holes Expands On Pier Plaza Killer Shrimp has merged with The Mermaid to create Killer Shrimp At The Mermaid restaurant and bar in Hermosa Beach, CA. The owners are the same – they always were when Killer Shrimp was in another building – and it's now blended into the Mermaid building. The menu at Mermaid is expanding but for true … [Read more...]
Patrick Molloy’s The Top Bar After Hermosa Beach Concerts
PubClub.com Tip Of The Week: The Best Sunday Nightlife Singles Bars At The Pier The summer Sunday beach concert is over for the evening, the sun has set, the bars on the Pier Plaza are right there, and it's still fairly early. So where do you go to continue to party? Patrick Molloy's. That's the most happening and best bar to go to on Pier Plaza, and PubClub.com's … [Read more...]
Mermaid Hermosa Beach: PubClub Party Tip Of The Week
Drink Of The Week Is The South Bay's Best Cocktail Deal Being out on the town means that PubClub.com has a lot of tips to share with readers and friends, and it's often difficult to get them all out in one simple system, like within the text of another post. So, based on input from a friend, we are now featuring a PubClub.com Party Tip Of The Week. This is starting … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach The Ultimate Quick Guide For Visitors
Bars, Top Happy Hours & Things To Do In This South Bay Beach City If you're visiting Hermosa Beach or are new to the South Bay Beach Cities, here's a quick guide to the best bars, Happy Hours, activities and lifestyle. It's everything .you need to know about what to do and where to do it and even what to wear in Hermosa. Things To Do In Hermosa Beach The focal … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach The Essential Bars, Nightlife & Happy Hours Guide
The Best Bars, Cocktails & Happy Hours This is your essential party guide to Hermosa Beach, CA, the lively little beach town in Los Angeles. A local provides information on the bars, where to get the best cocktails and all the Happy Hours, some of which are seven days a week. The first thing to know is that the main area of activity is Pier Plaza, a … [Read more...]
The Mermaid Hermosa Beach Adds Late Night Happy Hour
Pier Ave. Restaurant And Bar Features Wine, Beer & The Drink Of The Week Cocktail Here's a cheers to this move. The Mermaid, one of the few bars on the Hermosa Beach Strand, has extended it's daily Happy Hour hours and added a late-night Happy Hour. The daily Happy Hour – and by daily, we mean it's seven days a week – now goes from 3-7 p.m. Previously, it ended … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Bartenders Receive Alcohol Awareness Training
Underage Drinking & Over-Serving In Bars Stressed In Sessions The many lively bars at and around the Hermosa Beach, CA, Pier can - and do – give the impression to some that this is a wild and crazy drinking town. It's not (for comparison's sake, one day and night on Mykonos in the Greek Islands would likely lead to quite a different perspective of things here) but … [Read more...]
Taco Tuesday American Junkie $5 All-You-Can-Eat Tacos
Reviewing This Hermosa Beach Bar's Food & Drink Specials And Singles Scene Taco Tuesday is part of the culture in Southern California beach communities and it's particularly popular in the South Bay Beach Cities. Several bar/restaurants have specials on tacos and drinks this day of the week, and one of the best bargains is American Junkie at the Hermosa Beach … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Booze-N-Cruise Scavenger Hunt 2015
Fun Party Bar Events For Lyme Disease It's a party in the Hermosa Beach bars for the annual Booze-N-Clues. The 2015 Booze-N-Clues Bar Scavenger Hunt takes place on Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Hermosa Beach Pier. What exactly IS the Booze-N-Clues Bar Scavenger Hunt? It's an annual event blends a scavenger hunt with bar contests where dozens of individuals will split more … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Bars Nightlife Clubs & Singles Party Scene Complete Guide
Once a hangout for hippies, Harleys and hang-loosers, Hermosa Beach is now the mecca of the South Bay's social scene. All these bars profiled here are within walking distance and many are within sight distance of one another. There is one-block, pedestrian-only Pier Ave., possesses a plethora of places and, combined with more bars on Hermosa Ave., it's a party … [Read more...]
The Mermaid A Top Hermosa Beach Bar For 30+ Locals Singles
Strong Drinks, Great Bartenders And Happy Hour 7 Days A Week First – and for a long time – it was Sharkeez. Then it was Fenner's. And now it's The Mermaid. A group of long-time local South Bay singles have a new favorite "go-to" bar and it's one that has been in Hermosa Beach for decades: The Mermaid. A couple of years ago the long-standing bar with the dark interior and … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Sports Bars College Football Alumni Game-Watching Places
Where L.A. Transplants Watch Arizona State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wisconsin & More Schools In Los Angeles, a huge number of transplants from the rest of the USA means there are fans and alumni of schools who gather to watch games together and of course, that's in a bar. Here's a rundown of bars in Hermosa Beach where groups – sometimes 50+ strong – gather to watch … [Read more...]
Patrick Molloy’s Is Hermosa Beach’s Top Sunday Night Party Bar
Happy Hour Prices & Live Music At The HB Pier The South Bay has a long history of hot, happening, "must do" Sunday afternoon/evening bars: Beach Bum Bert's, La Paz, 12th Street, H2O, Chiller's, Harry O's, Sharkeez Hermosa. And now, after a recent void, add Patrick Molloy's to the list. The bar on Hermosa's Pier Plaza is rocking on Sunday nights with a non-stop … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Yacht Club One Of The South Bay’s Top Dive Bars
HBYC Has Cold Beers & Hot Bartenders When one thinks of good dive bars in the South Bay Beach Cities, Shellback Tavern and Ercoles at the Manhattan Beach Pier come immediately to mind. In Hermosa tho, the dive bar is a disappearing relic. The Mermaid has been spiffed up and even the Poop Deck (now just called The Deck) is somewhat of a wine bar. But there is one place … [Read more...]
Another Hermosa Beach Party Event, Another Night In The Pier Ave. Bars
LA Galaxy Championship Party Provides This Excuse Just when I thought it was safe to stay at home – spend a quiet evening with mindless TV on the background while adding articles to this blog and PubClub.com – then another event comes up that will have me back out on the Hermosa Beach Pier. And the bars. Blame the LA Galaxy! The MLS soccer team won the league … [Read more...]
Silvio’s Hermosa Beach LA Kings Controversy A Surprise To Regular Fans
One Whacko May Cost Los Angeles Chicago Group Really!? Someone put up a video at Silvio's which contained an anti-LA Kings message. It was from a regular, a disgruntled Chicago Blackhawks fan. Talk about a sore loser! Silvio's is a fun, casual Brazilian restaurant – a great place for the World Cup by the way! – in Hermosa Beach, CA, that serves as the home bar for Los … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Booze-N-Clues Bars Scavenger Hunt Charity Party
A Pub Crawl And Games For Teams In Costume To Raise Money For Lyme Disease Victim There's a beach party happening in Hermosa Beach, CA, and it's part pub crawl, part team contest and all fun. It's the inaugural Booze-N-Clues Bar & Beach Scavenger Hunt. It takes place on Saturday, Sept 28. As the name implies, it involves a scavenger hunt. Teams of up to six people … [Read more...]
Touring The Hermosa Beach Pier Ave Bars With The Bud Light Girls
Pub Crawling Through Sharkeez HB, American Junkie, Waterman's, Fenners During NVL Hermosa Beach Open Every now and then, the bars really perk up on Pier Ave., in Southern California's lively Hermosa Beach. When the Bud Light girls make the rounds, it makes having rounds of drinks at the bars that much better. PubClub.com happened to catch up with them on a summer Saturday … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Open Volleyball 2013 Hits The Pier Aug. 16-18
National Volleyball League Tournament Features Past And Present Pros & Bar Promos Summer in the South Bay means beach volleyball, and the biggest of those events are when the pros kick up the sand. One of those takes place this weekend, the National Volleyball League's ROX West Coast Championships. Or, as locals know it better, the Hermosa Beach Open. Play starts … [Read more...]
Reviewing Sunday Champagne Brunch At American Junkie Hermosa Beach
Good Food And Bottomless Mimosas And Bloody Marys For $15 One of the great things about living in the South Bay Beach Cities of Los Angeles is that our favorite bars on weekend nights like to lure us back the next morning (well late morning anyway). They do this by appealing to our basic daytime party necessities: Food and cheap drinks. Their bait is bottomless mimosas … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2013 Hermosa Beach Party Events & Bars Schedule
Fun Beach Coed Volleyball Tournament Lasts All Week It's a full week of fun for one of the top social events of the South Bay in LA's Beach Cities. It's Smackfest week! There are drink specials at the bars (since Bud Light is prime event sponsor, expect a lot of specials on bottled and draft beers at the bars), free gear, prizes, and lots more. The team captains meeting … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Fight Bad For Pier Ave Bars
Crackdown On Nightlife A Possible Result From Rare Incident This one goes under "a few idiots ruin a good time for the rest of us." A fight broke out in Hermosa Beach on the last Saturday night of June – talk about June Gloom! – and it was substantial enough that the Hermosa Beach Police called in for assistance from neighboring Manhattan and Redondo. Pier Ave, was … [Read more...]
Saint Rocke Delivers Another Good Night Out In Hermosa Beach
South Bay's Top Live Music Venue Again Provides An Enjoyable Experience Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach is one of those place that, when I'm there, I say to myself, "now why don't I come here more often?" It's the top live music venue in the South Bay Beach Cities and always gets good bands. It's not like many great live music bars in that it's not hot, dark and sweaty – … [Read more...]
A Busy Party Saturday For The Bar Blogger In L.A.
Bayou Festival, Chicago Stanley Cup Game, CD Release Bash & A House Party This is turning into one busy party Saturday! I have a festival to attend, a hockey game to watch with the WACCOs, a CD release event put on by my good friend and now have just learned of a house party. Well, it's just another summer day in L.A.! The start of the day is the Bayou Festival in … [Read more...]
Chicago and Boston Bars in Hermosa Beach LA Stanley Cup Party Spots
Silvio's And Fat Face Fenners Full Of For Fans Of Blackhawks And Bruins If you're from Chicago or Boston and live in Los Angeles, there are two bars in Hermosa Beach that are the party places for the Stanley Cup Finals between the Blackhawks and Bruins. They are Silvo's for Chicagoans and Fat Face Fenner's Fishack – also known as FFFF or simply Fenner's by locals – for … [Read more...]
Why Dive Bars Outlast Trendy Lounges And Clubs In The Nightlife Scene
Simplicity Wins Out Over Sophistication In The Long Run One of our local dive bars, the Poop Deck in Hermosa Beach, is celebrating its 56th anniversary this year. Think about that for a moment – 56 years. Eisenhower was president of the USA. Cars were actually stylish then and the only bikinis – crated just 10 years earlier – had yet to make it off the shores of French … [Read more...]
Even Without LA Kings Fever The North End Bar Is Rocking Hermosa Beach
South Bay's Neighborhood Bar Among The Best In The Beach Cities You know what makes a great bar? Well, several things, but in this case it's a bar just being itself. One that has not been tainted by publicity, does not think itself any better because it's been featured on TV, is not anything more today than it was before it achieved local fame. That place is the North … [Read more...]
American Junkie Hermosa Beach Extends Friday Happy Hour To 9 PM
South Bay Bar Deserves A Cheers For This Brilliant Move Here's some good news for South Bay bar junkies. American Junkie has extended its outstanding Happy Hour on Fridays until 9 p.m.! That makes it the latest Happy Hour in the Beach Cities. Patrick Molloy's goes until 8, from Monday thru Friday. Sharkeez goes until 7. Then again, Sharkeez owner Greg Newman is not one … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Bars Should Not Charge Cover On St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
After The Parade It's A Parade To Bars On The Pier, But Not If They Charge Customers Here's a way to turn your face green before you have your first green beer for St. Patrick's Day: Be hit with a cover charge to enter a bar. Yet that's what has happened the past couple of years in Hermosa Beach, as a few of the bars put out cash registers and had customers pay to enter. … [Read more...]
I Drink And Am Partying More Because Of Daylight’s Savings Time
Winter's Early Darkness Leads To Earlier Drinks, Which Leads to More Drinks Getting dark before 5 o'clock – as is the case with Daylight's Savings Time – is too early. At least for me. I would rather be out doing things in the daylight rather than tucking myself in for a winter's night. Okay, I'm not exactly tucking it in a five in the evenings, but it getting dark so … [Read more...]
Hey LA Kings Fans, Meet The Stanley Cup
Lord Stanley's Trophy Has Even Been in Manhattan Beach Los Angeles, meet your newest resident. It's 35 inches high, weighs 35 pounds and shines like the biggest celebrities. It will look great with all this sunshine. It's Lord Stanley's Cup – the Stanley Cup, for short – and it goes to the winner of the Stanley Cup Final, the National Hockey League's champion. Before … [Read more...]
North End is Hermosa Beach’s LA Kings Watching Bar
It's Not The Ol' Harry O's, But This Long-Time Dive Is The Place to be for the Stanley Cup Final in LA's South Bay Beach Cities Oh, for the days of Harry O's. Not just for its status as one of the South Bay's all-time great pick-up bars, but also as a place to watch hockey. Watch hockey? In Los Angeles? In the South Bay Beach Cities!? Well don't adjust your computer … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Fiesta Hermosa 2012 Photos
Sunshine, Bands, Beer and Beach Volleyball Combine to Make A Festive Memorial Day Weekend The sun was out and so were the people. A three-day weekend at one of the top beaches in Los Angeles always means a good time, but add the elements of Memorial Day and perfectly sunny mid-70-degree weather and the people were out to enjoy the holiday and great weather. A top … [Read more...]
Meet The Bud Light Girls During Fiesta Hermosa Beach
Girls Doing Bar Promotions On the Pier During Memorial Day The beach party just got even better. The Bud Light girls will be on the Hermosa Beach Pier during Fiesta Hermosa, doing promos in the bars. They will be giving out Mardi Gras beads and mingling with bar patrons for four hours on Saturday, May 26. They will be on the Pier from 1-5, making the rounds at Sharkeez, … [Read more...]
Ocean Bar Hermosa Beach Summer Sundays Are Back
'Sol Sundays' Are Vegas Without The Pools At Bar's Upstairs Deck If you didn't know better, you might think for a second you were transplanted to Rehab or some other rocking pool party in Las Vegas. There's people in bikinis and swim trunks (or shorts and sandals), the place is packed, drinks are flowing and a DJ is pumping house music. Except there's no pool. There is … [Read more...]
Kidnapped To Ride on the Hermosa Beach Party Barcycle
Locked Up Not Abroad But At Local South Bay Bars By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger I was kidnapped. Locked up not abroad, but in the South Bay. And this is the South Bay. Hermosa Beach. So all started and ended well. I was planning on a busy day of writing several articles for this blog – among them a review of a new rum, actually – when I … [Read more...]
My Night Out With Miss Grand Prix
The Tale Of Time With A Beautiful Girl in the Bar in Sharkeez Hermosa Beach, CA My heart started pounding, my arms went into automatic "hug" mode and my knees, well, they collapsed faster than Duke in March Madness. Miss Grand Prix had arrived. There are certain involuntary things the male body does when we encounter a beautiful girl. We twitch. Our insides start … [Read more...]
Two New Bars Added to Hermosa Beach Nightlife
Establishment Replaces Blue 32 and Union Cattle Changes to Abigaile; Ocean Bar Remains Unchanged Hermosa Beach's vibrant nightlife is undergoing a bit of a change in 2012 with the re-opening of Blue 32 and a re-design of Union Cattle. Blue 32 has been upgraded with a new sound system, tables, menu and tap system. It's now called Establishment and its main goal of … [Read more...]
Pub Crawls and Daisy Dukes – A Perfect Party Storm
Walking Into A Hermosa Beach Bar Makes For a Super Saturday During the Hermosa Open If there's one thing that makes me happy, it's a party. And walking into a party that I did not even know existed is sometimes an even better experience. Especially when that party is a pub crawl that has packed a bar with fun people that had the place absolutely jamming. Even with several … [Read more...]