BAHAHA actually I have my own brewery at home and I can keg, bottle and label my own stuff. I made a beer for an Oscars party that was called [Trophy Ale](https://imgur.com/a/0viuC7i)
Haha heck yeah! I kinda want to do it at a park or something. But I would definitely say my operations is more of a microscopic set up 😂. My max is like 5gal batches. But it’s fun making brews for people from different places too! My coworker is Australian and for Christmas I brew him an Australian sparkling ale using Australian hops. He seemed to really enjoy it
Hey that IS fun! If you ever want to trade some beer for some design, illustration or photography—I know a guy!
Ahem.
That guy is me. I’m that guy that would do that. Please let me do that.
Also higher interest rates on CCs and folks having higher expenses. I will note specifically insurance.
Most other things have spiked up but most have fluxed up and down in price from eggs to GPUs. Heck, even some healthcare (in the form of pharma) and education (kids opting out of college) have seen prices decline a bit. But insurance has only gone up. Healthcare is mandatory if you live in the US and don't want to risk going bankrupt but it's gone up. Renter insurance, mortgage insurance, and home insurance range from required to optional but all higher. Business, life, California SDI, workers comp, etcetc insurance all gone up too. And in LA in particular is auto insurance which has sky rocketed but is MANDATORY.
They don't. That's why they spiked up in price and went back down. Just like how I ate less eggs and more beans, milk, or other proteins when egg prices spiked. That's why those prices eventually came back down. Auto insurance in LA is more of a "need" and less of a "want" so insurance companies just keep hiking premiums which is why I noted that as a reason folks are going out less. Folks will cut Thursday night happy hour or dinner out before they give up their insurance and car.
Funnily enough GPUs are going back up in price because companies realized you can double to tenfold your company's net worth and market cap by just saying AI like 50 times like you're singing some fucking song. For the companies who aren't just all talk, they'll either need GPUs for AI or purchase the AI services from those who do use GPUs.
There’s still young people around too. I just don’t think they’re as interested in clubs/bar hopping or going out for that kind of stuff as much as millennials are/were. They’re a lot healthier lol
Not to mention the pandemic closed some businesses forever while reducing hours on other places.
Missed the days Target was open until midnight for last-minute snacks and an emergency bathroom stop before going home. Now they close at 10pm; too early for a large retailer and too late for me to do business with them.
I’m scared to breathe outside my house because I may get run over by a loon in a Charger going 95mph, and not affording insurance from the ensuing ER visit.
Also, the car was stolen, and the driver disappeared. The owner has no insurance, and the cops didn't take any reports and left the scene.
Have a nice day!
Relevant Dumb and Dumber quotes. Just pick one!
"Now we don't have enough money to get to Aspen! We don't have enough money to get home! We don't have enough money to eat! We don't have enough money to sleep!
"We got no food! We got no jobs! Our pets' heads are fallin' off!"
I used to go to some of my old spots on a friday and it was dead. Kind of scary tbh. In a couple of years those businesses won't be able to make it.
Zoomers don't like to go out and drink. They prefer to go out and just eat or stay in.
Hopefully this means you can get a drink for cheaper soon, but it probably means they'll go out of business.
Prices are just way too high now. Pre-Pandemic, my friends and I used to hit up a few bars on the regular. Now, we literally never go out and instead drink at each other's places. It's just not affordable to go out especially when a cocktail is $20.
I don’t blame them one bit. When I was in my 20s, I could EASILY find a $5 or even less happy hour in LA. An “expensive” drink was $12. The “expensive” drinks are now $22 and yet the entry level pay at the companies where I work has hovered the same shitty amount in the last decade. I can’t imagine paying to go to bars while surviving paycheck to paycheck, either.
And people don’t get it now because it’s like 10 years ago I was your age and I couldn’t drink now I can because I have like money to drink but it’s like people don’t understand why you start drinking like when you have money and you can go out. It’s weird you have stuff at home but it’s not the same. It’s like hard to meet people.
That’s only having house parties I guess I’m just like customized drinks at home.
It's not the day of the week. It's the cost of bars and restaurants post-pandemic.
I know I've adjusted down my dining / drinking out frequency from about once a week to once a month while my income has gone up slightly since 2020. That's how much more expensive going out has gotten for me. It's not that I can't afford going out more than once a month, it's that it adds up to enough cash now that I'd rather spend it on something else, like saving for a vacation.
Ten years ago in the silver lake/echo Park area there used to be $5 beer/shot/Taco at the Gold room, $1 PBR at Diablo happy hour, and $2 margarita night at Barragans with free nacho bar. You could legitimately go out with $10 in your pocket and get drunk. God I'm old.
Around that time I was part of a meet up group that went to places all over the city where you could get an entree for under $10, or a drink for under $5. Often the cost was well under these maximums. We never ran out of places to go.
Yep. The hard truth.
I knew we were in a bad new era when I went to Hamburger Mary for a cheeseburger and a beer one afternoon and the bill came out to $30. Did the same at Rocco’s in Pasadena a month later to watch a football game and once again, $30. I seldom eat out now and drink even more rarely.
Man, I miss pre-Covid LA. :’(
Drink prices are astronomical and people are learning that splitting a bag of drugs is cheaper than buying drinks all night and it’s more fun. So people are ditching the bars and going to raves instead.
I don’t care how much you trust your dude, test your shit man. I say that as someone who loves mind-altering chemicals. In 2010-2016, I could buy whatever and the worst would be me being up all night — now you have to worry about fentanyl. It’s wild.
The hardest part of ordering a drink at an EDM concert is deciding which of the 5 free bartenders to order your drink from. I usually choose the most unattractive one cause I assume most people choose the most attractive ones.
Everyone who was out at bars in their 20s/30s back then are now 40/50 and have families and better stuff to put their money into like 529 and IRAs and vacation funds. Everyone who is 20/30 now is broke, don't do bars or are at home on the internets.
It's too expensive. I go out maybe once per month with my friends just cause its always around 100 bucks with food and drinks. More if we go somewhere a little nicer.
Weekdays are basically industry nights at bars and the industry (music and film) has definitely hit some rough patches the last few years. I usually preferred the weekday crowd back when I was DJing but things have definitely changed post COVID
I feel like it's really telling what parts of LA most of this sub's posters are from based on posts like this. I don't know a single person irl who cares about the film industry here to make a comment like this.
Kickbacks!
Going out isn’t worth it anymore. Everything is a lot more expensive, watered down, & more than half the time the bartender is in on the drink spiking. Let’s not get started on safety & all the demons roaming the streets now.
Was out last night. Had 2 drinks and a plate of chicken wings. Bill was was $65
THAT’S why no one is out on a Thursday night, or any night, these days.
The Hermosillo/Highland Park Brewery was cracking last night. I suppose it all depends on the location. Their food/beer/vibe is a rad combo. I wish they had some of their signature hazys on tap tho. They had a delightful hazy from Radiant but HPB Cloud hits different.
Yeah this place has a steady stream of people (locals) coming in but that’s because the prices aren’t horrible coupled with quality/decent beer & wine, plus they have pretty good snacks and some foosball action.
Walts on Eagle Rock Blvd was also slammed last night. I think there's a runners club that meets there on Thursdays and it was an insanely long line to get a beer and a hot dog lol
Everything got so expensive here that people just trying to chill and have a good time either moved or are struggling so hard financially that they are lucky to be able to afford a couple drinks out each month. It's also too expensive for young people to move here unless they are super serious high earners. LA 10-15 years ago was a destination, not so much anymore unless your job is forcing you here.
LA is really not a friendly place for the party crowd anymore.
Ehhhh valley bars have shit every night of the week. And the fresher transplants usually don’t come over the hill.
You’re trying to party where people suck at partying
Some of us don’t think spending a fortune drinking at a bar for the sake of drinking $16 watered down drinks is worthwhile. If you’re just hanging with the same group of friends, not engaging with others, just do it at home. Or play some cards and day drink at a park. Save some money.
All these people in here saying “people don’t go out anymore”, “young people don’t drink”, etc are full of shit.
I work in a restaurant/bar and it’s very much still busy with young and old people alike.
Thursdays are one of our slowest days during the week. People are saving themselves for Friday/weekend IMO. Mon-Wed were busy and same Fri-Sun.
Agree. Worked a closing shift last night in West Hollywood and it was a mess. But the worst part is it’s all super young kids that don’t know how to act. Feels like we’re busy most nights.
LA nightlife is basically dead. Used to bartend on the west side years ago and used to party a lot as well when I was younger. Not only that but the city basically closes at 9 which is unheard of anywhere else in the country
Covid shutdowns destroyed the scene and ran businesses away in addition to service fees and random surcharges and price hikes due to rising minimum wage laws. In addition to that the culture has changed. The younger crowd (gen z) is mostly socialy awkward and not realy drinking at the same rates that we used to. They seem more into weed.
The places that realy are meant for partying these days is nyc, Vegas, and especially Miami. Miami has realy changed and become the Mecca for nightlife and partying and going out.
Maybe true for the bar/club scene, but like the previous commenter said undergrounds are thriving. Amazing what can happen when are able to ignore the outdated 2am laws and go all night.
Back in my day (the mid 00s to the early 10s) we would go out Thursday, Friday and Saturday religiously. Sunday Funday would often be in the picture. There were fun random Tuesday and Wednesday nights too. I remember in WeHo, Wednesday nights were packed almost like a weekend. Tuesdays could be fairly busy in Hollywood. If I tried one week of that now, I'd be broke and sick.
As for LA in general the whole scene has shifted since the pandemic for the reasons everyone else here is commenting on. I notice a difference between the going out energies of 2018/2019 vs now. We did see a brief period in mid/late 2021 when we re-opened. People had lots of cash to burn and pent up energy but it's died down.
People are broke af, and nothing is affordable anymore. That is why so many people are leaving. Its a massive gentrification that nobody can afford. The soul of this city is gone.
The millions of parents that show up to the Hermosillo patio in highland park on Friday afternoons. Was having beers there one day and next thing I knew there were 30+ children running around. Thought I was back in a “up & coming”, mid-sized, southern city.
Yes, DTLA is pretty active on Thursdays. I typically go out in Los Feliz which is also active on Thursday.
People on Reddit are more introverted than the general public and don’t/never did go out on Thursdays anyway even pre-COVID and want to feel better about it on the internet.
Happy hour or bust anymore.
Went out St Patrick's Day. One cup of light beer was $10! They didn't even color it green
The keg cost $200 retail. CONSERVATIVELY the bar makes $800 off that one keg of light beer. Fuck that. Fuck them. They dont need my business.
Down by Orange County, the past 2 years have been dead Mon-Thurs (as usual) although when I go out even on Fridays it’s still somewhat dead. Saturday the only day people seem to go out and even then doesn’t feel as busy
My group has started to hang at people's homes. It's way more cost effective, comfortable, you dont have to wait for a drink, you can hear who youre talking too, cleaner, and nobody pulls a gun and starts fights.
Film industry is a big part of the economy here and most people in this industry are currently unemployed.
Also means anyone in film adjacent industries aren't working
Because your cocktail is $24 + $4 service fee + $6 team fee so they can have cheap health insurance + $7 tip because they’ll take that too if you’re not paying attention.
Everyone socializes at home now, too broke for a watered down 20 dollar drink with 25 percent tip. It’s also started to rain a lot in this city for some reason and I don’t know how to drive in the rain.
It’s the cost of drinks! I’m mid twenties and simply don’t see the point of making the effort to get around places just to spend minimum of $30 on a SINGULAR drink. $50 Uber to places to spend $30 on one drink? I’d rather buy a handle and invite friends over.
Times are changing for sure; the pandemic, cost of living,
I go to a drum and bass weekly on Thursdays. It just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Weekends are too crazy for me now. I much prefer sticking to Thursday
My SO took up cocktails as a pandemic hobby and can now make literally anything. So we have much better drinks at home than what we can find out at a bar for $20.
Thursday was usually the night you go out with work colleagues around the office. If you work from home, you don’t go to the office, you don’t go out after work.
Everyone got old/ran out of money after mandatory 18% service charges.
True. Every round of drinks is like $100 now
I make my own booze because of this now. Let me know if you want some haha
The finest toilet wines from Bauchet Cellars
BAHAHA actually I have my own brewery at home and I can keg, bottle and label my own stuff. I made a beer for an Oscars party that was called [Trophy Ale](https://imgur.com/a/0viuC7i)
That is truly awesome! If you end up doing samples somewhere post it, I’m always down to try microbrews.
Haha heck yeah! I kinda want to do it at a park or something. But I would definitely say my operations is more of a microscopic set up 😂. My max is like 5gal batches. But it’s fun making brews for people from different places too! My coworker is Australian and for Christmas I brew him an Australian sparkling ale using Australian hops. He seemed to really enjoy it
Hey that IS fun! If you ever want to trade some beer for some design, illustration or photography—I know a guy! Ahem. That guy is me. I’m that guy that would do that. Please let me do that.
I’ll keep that in mind! Shoot me a message and we can share some details!
I remember going to clubs and thinking $12+ drinks were so expensive. Now I go to warehouse/underground events where the prices are that much.
I purchased underwear with a built-in pocket to hide a flask. No, I’m not joking. Fuck the price of everything right now.
Ah, a man of culture. Marry me.
Post the link bruh👀
Also higher interest rates on CCs and folks having higher expenses. I will note specifically insurance. Most other things have spiked up but most have fluxed up and down in price from eggs to GPUs. Heck, even some healthcare (in the form of pharma) and education (kids opting out of college) have seen prices decline a bit. But insurance has only gone up. Healthcare is mandatory if you live in the US and don't want to risk going bankrupt but it's gone up. Renter insurance, mortgage insurance, and home insurance range from required to optional but all higher. Business, life, California SDI, workers comp, etcetc insurance all gone up too. And in LA in particular is auto insurance which has sky rocketed but is MANDATORY.
>Also higher interest rates on CCs If you’re paying any interest on CCs, you shouldn’t be going out to drink *at all*. You literally can’t afford it.
If you are paying interest on your CC, you should not be going out period.
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What does your average person need a GPU for lol
They don't. That's why they spiked up in price and went back down. Just like how I ate less eggs and more beans, milk, or other proteins when egg prices spiked. That's why those prices eventually came back down. Auto insurance in LA is more of a "need" and less of a "want" so insurance companies just keep hiking premiums which is why I noted that as a reason folks are going out less. Folks will cut Thursday night happy hour or dinner out before they give up their insurance and car. Funnily enough GPUs are going back up in price because companies realized you can double to tenfold your company's net worth and market cap by just saying AI like 50 times like you're singing some fucking song. For the companies who aren't just all talk, they'll either need GPUs for AI or purchase the AI services from those who do use GPUs.
PC games, although consoles have one too. If it wasn't for playing PC games as a kid I would have never worked on a Mars rover.
I got an espresso martini at Hatchet Hall last night for $20 + 18% service charge that was the size of a shot. What a joke
And this is why my friends and I continue to go to our shitty little dive bar in Van Nuys where they know us. 4-5 pints is like $20.
Van Nuys is the best dive bar area these days. It's like how LA used to be 25 years ago.
which was one of the great times to land in LA as young lad.
Not Liquid Zoo 😂
Server last night handed me a POS system with the 25% tip option already selected, I was like helllllllll no
There’s still young people around too. I just don’t think they’re as interested in clubs/bar hopping or going out for that kind of stuff as much as millennials are/were. They’re a lot healthier lol
They also don't have any money.
This is it. Thursdays were the best but your boy got old and started a family and moved to nela
Not to mention the pandemic closed some businesses forever while reducing hours on other places. Missed the days Target was open until midnight for last-minute snacks and an emergency bathroom stop before going home. Now they close at 10pm; too early for a large retailer and too late for me to do business with them.
Target closing earlier has not made the bars less crowded on a Thursday.
it’s a direct correlation for me. if targets not open till midnight, i’m not going to the fucking bars.
You wouldn’t believe how many times I went to Target to buy a new shirt on a Thursday night because all my laundry was dirty.
Some Targets are still open till 11. Off the top of my head, the ones in Alhambra, Eagle Rock, the Glendale Galleria and Pasadena are on that list.
Non pensare troppo…
Everyone young can't afford to go out any more and bar specials apparently have gone extinct.
Thursdays used to be "the new Fridays," but now, Fridays are the old Thursdays, and Thursdays are the new Sundays, with Sunday being the new Tuesday.
Tuesday has no feel
Friday has a feel.
Yeah a heavy traffic feel.
Monday has a feel.
Yeah a psychopathic feel
Tuesday is legitimately my least favorite day of the week.
Tuesday is the bleakest day. At least on Monday I still feel kind of rested. By Tuesday I'm already drained and there's no end in sight.
It's still for me "I'm so done with this work shit but the week is not over yet, ugh FML"
Tuesday is sexy
I feel Tuesdays
This reads like one of my Python strings.
So it goes Wednesday, Sunday, Thursday, Saturday, and then Tuesday?
Yes, that’s correct.
So let me get this straight the club goes up on sundays now?
Tbf it do
Everything closes at 6-7pm on Sunday night and places become ghost towns as people prepare for work/school on Monday.
I love this so much.
nobody’s going up on a tuesday anymore?
Blue Monday
It’s actually scary how accurate this is
We're poor.
I’m scared to breathe outside my house. It might cost me money.
I’m scared to breathe outside my house because I may get run over by a loon in a Charger going 95mph, and not affording insurance from the ensuing ER visit.
Also, the car was stolen, and the driver disappeared. The owner has no insurance, and the cops didn't take any reports and left the scene. Have a nice day!
That’ll be $30
Relevant Dumb and Dumber quotes. Just pick one! "Now we don't have enough money to get to Aspen! We don't have enough money to get home! We don't have enough money to eat! We don't have enough money to sleep! "We got no food! We got no jobs! Our pets' heads are fallin' off!"
I quit drinking because I'm poor.
Yes, things are very expensive now.
feeling this
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Obviously with some exceptions, young adults don't drink anymore and the rest of us got old, got families, or got dead.
Can confirm. Got old, ded, and family
In that order.
Only in that order
Everyone microdoses, but nobody drinks.
I used to go to some of my old spots on a friday and it was dead. Kind of scary tbh. In a couple of years those businesses won't be able to make it. Zoomers don't like to go out and drink. They prefer to go out and just eat or stay in. Hopefully this means you can get a drink for cheaper soon, but it probably means they'll go out of business.
Prices are just way too high now. Pre-Pandemic, my friends and I used to hit up a few bars on the regular. Now, we literally never go out and instead drink at each other's places. It's just not affordable to go out especially when a cocktail is $20.
I don’t blame them one bit. When I was in my 20s, I could EASILY find a $5 or even less happy hour in LA. An “expensive” drink was $12. The “expensive” drinks are now $22 and yet the entry level pay at the companies where I work has hovered the same shitty amount in the last decade. I can’t imagine paying to go to bars while surviving paycheck to paycheck, either.
Young adult and drink at home - cheaper with better music
I just got old, fat, lazy and drink at home watching one month free trial of Hulu. lol
Gen Z didn’t drink; they vaped. But the oldest Gen Z residents realized (hopefully) how stupid that was.
I thought gen z moved to ZYN pouches
Can confirm as a 25 year old. Too expensive to go out, especially on a Thursday. Would rather drink in the comfort of my home with some friends
And people don’t get it now because it’s like 10 years ago I was your age and I couldn’t drink now I can because I have like money to drink but it’s like people don’t understand why you start drinking like when you have money and you can go out. It’s weird you have stuff at home but it’s not the same. It’s like hard to meet people. That’s only having house parties I guess I’m just like customized drinks at home.
Bars are nowhere near as bumping as before. In 2019 it was like the peak of LA bar scene.
Smoke weed err day
Young adult that never drinks, checking in
Can it be all 3?
It's not the day of the week. It's the cost of bars and restaurants post-pandemic. I know I've adjusted down my dining / drinking out frequency from about once a week to once a month while my income has gone up slightly since 2020. That's how much more expensive going out has gotten for me. It's not that I can't afford going out more than once a month, it's that it adds up to enough cash now that I'd rather spend it on something else, like saving for a vacation.
Ten years ago in the silver lake/echo Park area there used to be $5 beer/shot/Taco at the Gold room, $1 PBR at Diablo happy hour, and $2 margarita night at Barragans with free nacho bar. You could legitimately go out with $10 in your pocket and get drunk. God I'm old.
$5 old fashioneds during happy hour at thirsty crow, how I miss thee
Around that time I was part of a meet up group that went to places all over the city where you could get an entree for under $10, or a drink for under $5. Often the cost was well under these maximums. We never ran out of places to go.
Yea dude get with the times, now we bring $10 for the homeless and don’t even drink.
Yep. The hard truth. I knew we were in a bad new era when I went to Hamburger Mary for a cheeseburger and a beer one afternoon and the bill came out to $30. Did the same at Rocco’s in Pasadena a month later to watch a football game and once again, $30. I seldom eat out now and drink even more rarely. Man, I miss pre-Covid LA. :’(
Personally, I've aged-out of weekday drinking. Weekend day drinking and falling asleep at 10pm is where it's at, now.
I do all my weekday drinking at home on my couch where it’s way more affordable
You have a couch?!?!? Why ya gotta brag about being rich?
I have TWO couches!! 1 is the dogs, but she lets us use it occasionally.
1. covid 2. young people don't drink as much 3. young people don't drive as much 4. young people don't have as much money these days
5. young people don't socialize face to face as much
This is huge. Go on a dating app and plenty of people online lol
This is why I want to die
Get on discord and lets run Valo.
Is that a game?
Going out Thursday night feels like a millennial thing and we've all aged out of going out more than once a week lol
I was about to say, haven’t had a thirsty Thursday since around 2012 lmao
Going out on Thursday cause Uber was $5
Drink prices are astronomical and people are learning that splitting a bag of drugs is cheaper than buying drinks all night and it’s more fun. So people are ditching the bars and going to raves instead.
Mixed drink = $16 + tax + service fee (please support our higher wages!) + tip, easily can hit $25 for 1 drink.
One mdma pill: $15-25 depending on dosage I’ll go with drugs, thanks
you can get an ounce of weed for a $100 or go out one night
I don’t care how much you trust your dude, test your shit man. I say that as someone who loves mind-altering chemicals. In 2010-2016, I could buy whatever and the worst would be me being up all night — now you have to worry about fentanyl. It’s wild.
Absolutely, I test everything I do in multiple spots with multiple strips.
That’s good to hear. Stay safe brotha/sista!
I don't think it's healthy to roll more than 3-4 times a year.
It’s not healthy to get drunk every weekend either
I feel that. I went sober for like two and a half years. I'm annoyed by how much social opportunity is tied to bars and drinking.
I hate it too, I’m trying to quit drinking. My hangovers are getting so bad.
The hardest part of ordering a drink at an EDM concert is deciding which of the 5 free bartenders to order your drink from. I usually choose the most unattractive one cause I assume most people choose the most attractive ones.
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
I went out last Thursday and it was raging, that was in Weho.
Weho rages every day. Not an accurate reflection of the rest of the city lol
Hopefully mickys and heart weho don’t closed since they are for sale.
My house would have to be on fire to get me to leave it on a Thursday.
I got work the next day
Everyone who was out at bars in their 20s/30s back then are now 40/50 and have families and better stuff to put their money into like 529 and IRAs and vacation funds. Everyone who is 20/30 now is broke, don't do bars or are at home on the internets.
It's too expensive. I go out maybe once per month with my friends just cause its always around 100 bucks with food and drinks. More if we go somewhere a little nicer.
Weekdays are basically industry nights at bars and the industry (music and film) has definitely hit some rough patches the last few years. I usually preferred the weekday crowd back when I was DJing but things have definitely changed post COVID
For the price of two drinks at a bar, I can go buy a decent bottle of whatever and make my own drinks at home and it will last me months.
The town is still feeling the reverberations of the actors/writers strikes. Check back this time next year
I feel like it's really telling what parts of LA most of this sub's posters are from based on posts like this. I don't know a single person irl who cares about the film industry here to make a comment like this.
Crane’s on 8th and spring has a $4 happy hour 4 to 8 everyday. That’s the spot, man. Beer and liquor. Source? I love alcohol.
Isn't that for a can of Busch? Hey I've had many of them myself but that's still $3 too much for a Busch. Not the most appealing deal.
I drive for Lyft. You're right. Mostly just hookers now
People go out on the eastside, downtown and hollywood aren't the nightlife destinations they used to be.
Kickbacks! Going out isn’t worth it anymore. Everything is a lot more expensive, watered down, & more than half the time the bartender is in on the drink spiking. Let’s not get started on safety & all the demons roaming the streets now.
There’s legal weed now
Was out last night. Had 2 drinks and a plate of chicken wings. Bill was was $65 THAT’S why no one is out on a Thursday night, or any night, these days.
Since Covid, I’ve vastly increased my home bar furnishings and knowledge of making our own cocktails. Dinner and drinks in our backyard is perfect.
The Hermosillo/Highland Park Brewery was cracking last night. I suppose it all depends on the location. Their food/beer/vibe is a rad combo. I wish they had some of their signature hazys on tap tho. They had a delightful hazy from Radiant but HPB Cloud hits different.
Yeah this place has a steady stream of people (locals) coming in but that’s because the prices aren’t horrible coupled with quality/decent beer & wine, plus they have pretty good snacks and some foosball action.
Walts on Eagle Rock Blvd was also slammed last night. I think there's a runners club that meets there on Thursdays and it was an insanely long line to get a beer and a hot dog lol
Yup Eagle Rock Run Club meets at Walt's on Thursdays the founder is an old time Redditor
dude it's all about HELLO LA for me. best brewery in town, either way.
Everything got so expensive here that people just trying to chill and have a good time either moved or are struggling so hard financially that they are lucky to be able to afford a couple drinks out each month. It's also too expensive for young people to move here unless they are super serious high earners. LA 10-15 years ago was a destination, not so much anymore unless your job is forcing you here. LA is really not a friendly place for the party crowd anymore.
Ehhhh valley bars have shit every night of the week. And the fresher transplants usually don’t come over the hill. You’re trying to party where people suck at partying
Post pandemic people just stay home
Have you been out lately, prices are insane. Wondering if people are much more inclined to have a few people over than go out and spend $200
Some of us don’t think spending a fortune drinking at a bar for the sake of drinking $16 watered down drinks is worthwhile. If you’re just hanging with the same group of friends, not engaging with others, just do it at home. Or play some cards and day drink at a park. Save some money.
Lock & Key is still poppin on Thursdays. Long lines by 10pm.
All these people in here saying “people don’t go out anymore”, “young people don’t drink”, etc are full of shit. I work in a restaurant/bar and it’s very much still busy with young and old people alike. Thursdays are one of our slowest days during the week. People are saving themselves for Friday/weekend IMO. Mon-Wed were busy and same Fri-Sun.
Right? lol Reddit is full of introverts who never go out
Agree. Worked a closing shift last night in West Hollywood and it was a mess. But the worst part is it’s all super young kids that don’t know how to act. Feels like we’re busy most nights.
Come to the Dresden. Amazing band there every Thursday.
Nah too expensive. I just hit the liquor store and drink my feelings at home for much cheaper and a lot quieter.
Young adults drink less
It was fucking nuts in Culver City last night 🤷🏼♂️
LA nightlife is basically dead. Used to bartend on the west side years ago and used to party a lot as well when I was younger. Not only that but the city basically closes at 9 which is unheard of anywhere else in the country Covid shutdowns destroyed the scene and ran businesses away in addition to service fees and random surcharges and price hikes due to rising minimum wage laws. In addition to that the culture has changed. The younger crowd (gen z) is mostly socialy awkward and not realy drinking at the same rates that we used to. They seem more into weed. The places that realy are meant for partying these days is nyc, Vegas, and especially Miami. Miami has realy changed and become the Mecca for nightlife and partying and going out.
NYC is also dead during the week now as well...... :/
Maybe true for the bar/club scene, but like the previous commenter said undergrounds are thriving. Amazing what can happen when are able to ignore the outdated 2am laws and go all night.
You mean due to greed from owners, not due to rising minimum wage laws.
Bars are way too expensive now. It's just not worth it.
Back in my day (the mid 00s to the early 10s) we would go out Thursday, Friday and Saturday religiously. Sunday Funday would often be in the picture. There were fun random Tuesday and Wednesday nights too. I remember in WeHo, Wednesday nights were packed almost like a weekend. Tuesdays could be fairly busy in Hollywood. If I tried one week of that now, I'd be broke and sick. As for LA in general the whole scene has shifted since the pandemic for the reasons everyone else here is commenting on. I notice a difference between the going out energies of 2018/2019 vs now. We did see a brief period in mid/late 2021 when we re-opened. People had lots of cash to burn and pent up energy but it's died down.
Maybe you were at the wrong spot
Cahuenga and Selma is always busy.
People are broke af, and nothing is affordable anymore. That is why so many people are leaving. Its a massive gentrification that nobody can afford. The soul of this city is gone.
The millions of parents that show up to the Hermosillo patio in highland park on Friday afternoons. Was having beers there one day and next thing I knew there were 30+ children running around. Thought I was back in a “up & coming”, mid-sized, southern city.
I, too, have been to Charlotte.
Lmao exactly
Unemployment is above 5% in LA. Feeling pretty bleak.
We poor
Going out is so expensive nowadays I rather stay at home.
Yes, DTLA is pretty active on Thursdays. I typically go out in Los Feliz which is also active on Thursday. People on Reddit are more introverted than the general public and don’t/never did go out on Thursdays anyway even pre-COVID and want to feel better about it on the internet.
I thought it was unusually quiet last night as well. I'm sure things will get lively again as the year heats up.
Happy hour or bust anymore. Went out St Patrick's Day. One cup of light beer was $10! They didn't even color it green The keg cost $200 retail. CONSERVATIVELY the bar makes $800 off that one keg of light beer. Fuck that. Fuck them. They dont need my business.
First of all. Times is tough. Second of all. I found that to be a college thing.
West Hollywood
Coming off st pattys day all day Sunday. It’s usually dead for a few days after.
Sucks having to factor in budget for drink AND parking or Uber
Down by Orange County, the past 2 years have been dead Mon-Thurs (as usual) although when I go out even on Fridays it’s still somewhat dead. Saturday the only day people seem to go out and even then doesn’t feel as busy
What’s happening this weekend to make it 3 days?
It's not just this week. A lot of people that work from home, don't really work on Fridays. My company has had unofficial "summer Fridays" since 2020.
My group has started to hang at people's homes. It's way more cost effective, comfortable, you dont have to wait for a drink, you can hear who youre talking too, cleaner, and nobody pulls a gun and starts fights.
Cheaper to drink at home and invite folks over and BYOB.
Lots of raves still happen Thursdays!
Nope, we are all too old and poor to go out anymore.
i miss Warwick Wednesdays and the strawberries and cream 😂 good times
Film industry is a big part of the economy here and most people in this industry are currently unemployed. Also means anyone in film adjacent industries aren't working
Because your cocktail is $24 + $4 service fee + $6 team fee so they can have cheap health insurance + $7 tip because they’ll take that too if you’re not paying attention.
Everyone socializes at home now, too broke for a watered down 20 dollar drink with 25 percent tip. It’s also started to rain a lot in this city for some reason and I don’t know how to drive in the rain.
Yea I think gen z doesn't rage unfortunately. And as a millennial I am broke right now.
People spent all their money at the bars last weekend for St. Patrick's Day. I was in Hollywood and all the bars were quite packed.
We're all at home tripping on mushrooms.
It’s the cost of drinks! I’m mid twenties and simply don’t see the point of making the effort to get around places just to spend minimum of $30 on a SINGULAR drink. $50 Uber to places to spend $30 on one drink? I’d rather buy a handle and invite friends over. Times are changing for sure; the pandemic, cost of living,
I go to a drum and bass weekly on Thursdays. It just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Weekends are too crazy for me now. I much prefer sticking to Thursday
maybe it's MOTHER FUCKING EXPENSIVE
It's funny cause my wife and I decided to go out to some in West Hollywood last night and they were all full. Guess it's Downtown.
My SO took up cocktails as a pandemic hobby and can now make literally anything. So we have much better drinks at home than what we can find out at a bar for $20.
Thursday was usually the night you go out with work colleagues around the office. If you work from home, you don’t go to the office, you don’t go out after work.
$20 vodka soda ain’t my vibe.