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Boon Docks Cocktails
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Thu, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
$25 for $50 Deal
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18 reviews for Boon Docks Cocktails
18 reviews in English
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Review from Bill M.
Long Beach, CA
5/12/2012
Oh dearest Miss Mary - where do I begin? From the entrance off of the back of Los Al - I should have known that this could be a new barfly hangout for me - or for at least to get started - I have mastered the heavy hand pour and I think that I got schooled by Miss Mary tonight- a simple Captn and Coke - somewhere there was some cola and a martini for my wife - a couple of pool tables, lotto and some cheesie fries that were served as snacks to make me drink more - surely worked. A quick trip to el bano resulted in a major decision - should I spend the 75cents on the horny goat weed or the condom - silly boy - I got both - the HGW for my wife and the condom for me later - everyone was friendly and it was a good start out for a fun dinner later. Oh did I say dive bar? They had ample TV's and hangers underneath the bar for my wife's purse - it was a win win as far as I am concerned - now I have a place to go when I am getting my car washed on Sundays!!
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Review from Sarah W.
Cypress, CA
5/8/2012
I love Mary. I will come to this bar as long as she's there. She is sharp and sassy and pours a drink that makes ME pucker! It doesn't get any better than that! Love you Mary!!
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Review from Ruben F.
Los Alamitos, CA
3/10/2012
TThis place is awesome live D.J gorgeous girls in bikini the best tacos in O.C homie Carlos be killing it on that grill.
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Review from Tara D.
9/18/2011 45 Check-ins Here
Some of the reviews below already say it very well. I especially like Eric T.'s and Leah N.'s, although I'm not ashamed to say I really love this place.
I love the vibe here, fake wood paneling and all. Video game multiplayer on the bar. Electronic darts. Pool. A small feast for the senses when you first visit. A homecoming for all visits thereafter.
The regulars are exactly the kind of random people you can have a delightfully random conversation with. This is in Los Alamitos, but also a stone's throw from the southeast side of Long Beach. Folks are friendly and will chat you up.
There's a guy who comes in regularly (on Thursdays, between 6-7:30, I think) and sells excellent produce to the regulars. Buy a bag of plum tomatoes and a couple avocados while you swill your dry martini, which, with premium alcohol, is probably going to set you back about $5.
The bartenders indeed have a heavy loving hand and trend toward chatty (but not obnoxiously so.) God bless 'em.Listed in: Long Beach favorites (from an…
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Review from Chris J.
4/10/2011
Friend and I went here on Saturday after discovering that Don the Beachcomber felt like closing a half-full parking lot and only had valet parking available...weak.
On our way back to Los Al, my friend wanted to come here. She lives a block away and I was thinking to myself "You sure? It's a dive." but she insisted.
Entered from the back, flower pot ashtray, check. Funky restroom smell from the left hand hallway, check. Seating for about 15 at the bar (it was only about a third full), check. Some playing some Morrisey/The Smiths on the internet juke box, check. So far, so good.
A few things about the bartender Mary: don't whistle in here, she'll tell you it's rude in no uncertain terms. If you want a shoot the root (or I'm thinking Irish car bomb, they do have Guinness in the can), you're SOL as she doesn't "drop shot glasses". Also saw that they really don't have a lot of glassware.
So-so selection of bottle beer, only had Hef (I think) on draft, but you really can't beat $10 for three drinks. -
Review from Éric T.
Long Beach, CA
2/16/2009
I'm running low on sexual innuendo today, so I will post things I randomly saw at this bar:
A rusting bathroom stall
A home-made rum cake that was fucking delicious
A popcorn machine
A lot of fake wood paneling
A vending machine that sold Horny Goat Weed
A lesbian bartender with a lead fist.
An internet jukebox
A serious lack of hot guys
A lot of empty beer bottles in front of me
A stuffed ash tray outside
A lot of change for a $20 bill after buying a round of drinks
A sexy text message from an unlikely suitor
Check, please! -
Review from Leah N.
Cerritos, CA
3/3/2008
Before I sully my reputation by admitting that I have hung out in this dive I have to explain that I live within walking distance and I'd rather drink at a dive than be plastered and drive home.
Now, I believe that a bar can be evaluated by just a few major characteristics. Ambiance, the ratio of the cost of alcohol to the potency of the drink, and the crowd. Other little factors matter here and there but at the end of the day I think the ideal place to get drunk is with a group of friends on strong cheap drinks in a cool locale.
The Boon Docks can be this place if you bring your own friends and enough money to pump the jukebox and own the pool tables and dart boards. It's sure small enough for one party to run the house.
The Boon Docks is located in what is jokingly referred to as "Downtown Los Alamitos." It, between the 4 other dives in the area, serve the same crowd who must have been going there for decades. At least that's what I can tell since most of them have their names written on their own stools so they can be sure no one sits in their seats.
This bar does open at 6 am and believe me when I tell you there is a 6am drinking crowd. You'll be petrified to know that some of them are Caltrans workers. This in itself explains the horrendous highway conditions in North Orange County. It closes at 1am, or whenever the bartender decides they're done working for the night. The crowd dramatically changes throughout the day.
Don't go thinking that I go drinking in the morning, I know that these folks are in here because of the regulars who stay all day. And by all day I mean from the morning until the occasional times I roll in at around 9 or 10 pm. This is when the night regulars live there.
But even more memorable are the characters who run the bar: the bartenders. They all pour with a heavy hand, each with their own personal loyal following, some of whom will only come in on their favorite bartender's night. There's the jovial Sunday night bartender, the sweet as pie weeknight bartender, and the no-non-sense-here- to-get-you-drunk-but-not-too-drunk-or-she'll-kick- you-out-of-the-bar weekend bartender.
The willingness of the bartenders to make specialty drinks depends on whose shift you're coming in on. I know they have a blender but most of them refuse to use it. I don't think they even have a muddler on site but the weeknight sweetie pie will hand muddle you an old fashioned. Don't bother asking for anything too complicated on the weekend; say the word puscafe and you might end out on your a$$.
Now it seems like I know a whole lot about the bar, and it's true, I do! But you will too if you happen to come in an sit a spell. The bar regulars form a friendly welcoming family who like family knows all your business because someone else in the bar is telling it. You might just call it the grapevine of the neighborhood. Introverts beware.
Non regulars usually consists of people who stumble in from the other local bars, people who come with friends who live in the neighborhood and the Cypress College crowd.
Drinks run cheap, $3 well drinks, similarly cheap beer. I think the most expensive drink I've ever had there is about $6 and it was a shot of Patron Silver. There's complimentary oil popped popcorn and chips that you can buy to sop up the inevitable large amounts of alcohol you'll unknowingly imbibe because you had no idea who strong the drinks were.
On Saturday's they do free lunch, home cooked and brought in by the owner's girlfriend depending on what she wants to make for the week. On Sunday there are free chili dogs starting at lunch until the night bartender comes in to clean it all up.
Entertainment wise there's a digital jukebox that will charge you more for a few songs than the bartender will charge you for a gin and tonic. There are 2 pool tables that run $0.50 a game and 2 electronic dart board that cost about the same.
I've brought my friends here from Irvine, Hollywood, etc. The general consensus is that it's a cool place to hang out every once and a while, particularly popular with my hipster buddies, but to be honest I think they're just wowed that they can get plastered for less than $20. -
Review from Vanessa R.
Houston, TX
6/8/2011
Meh, I've been to better dives. Service is good but it's really the people that I don't like. There's always some cougar or dirty old man lurking around being inappropriate. And the last time I went, a middle aged woman puked in the bathroom and then went back out and bought some more drinks. Gross. I live relatively close, so if I go here, it's usually because it's a last resort or too late to go anywhere else.
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Review from Bill E.
Cypress, CA
6/7/2011
Hey, it's a dive bar, but if you like to hang out with friendly people, shoot some pool and have a cheap drink with a big pour, look no further. I'm a bit of a Bloody Mary snob and Mary Ann makes one of the best Bloody Mary's I've ever had. Go visit her on Sunday morning/afternoon and tell her you want one of Bill's favorite Bloody Mary's!!!
Listed in: Best Bloody Mary
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Review from Scott K.
Los Angeles, CA
12/30/2008 1 Check-in Here
pros:
pool tables, darts, freshly popped popcorn, drinks as stiff as a 14 year old boy waking up in the morning, stucco ceiling (that gives it that homely feeling), numerous bottled brews
cons:
johnny law posted up across the street at the gas station -
Review from Christopher T.
Long Beach, CA
10/9/2010
If your missing the stench of latent puke in your life this place is a great bar to find it. Tap beer was not cold. Dart board was broken. Quarter top arcade machine was broken. Hot spot lotto was broken. No hot chicks. 1 old guy passing out on the bar. How could you go wrong? Upon my last visit I am convinced this place is a cover-up for something much larger in scale. No one in their right mind would let a bar they own go into the toilet as such.
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Review from Cindy B.
Orange, CA
10/9/2009
Where do I begin with this place?
Lets start with the fact that everyone enters this place from the back alley. So when you come in you get hit with the this funky oder coming from the bathroom. You then pass a collage of old pictures of people who have been to that bar. And you can tell they have been up for years by the way the peoples hair are in the pictures. But then you walk in to see the older crowd with the same hair dos! Then your greeted by the butch looking bartender who may I add makes killer drinks. I love the fact that this place has hooks so you can hang your purse. Thats a plus in my books. But the lack of hotties is not. It does have a Jukebox with all the songs you can think of and a popcorn machine next to it so you can eat while you pick your song. This place is good to go if you want to go and have a few cheap drinks and watch a game. If your wanting to go where no one knows your name...thats the place to be! -
Review from Joe E.
Seal Beach, CA
7/5/2007 1 Check-in Here
I grew up in this town and ever since I was a little kid I swore I would go to this spooky place as soon as I turned 21. By the time that happened, the neighborhood bar moved from it's original historical structure into the stucco mess that replaced it. I sitll went there on my 21st for old times sake with my good friend Pat Brown. It was uneventful but it is a bar, and it is open at 6:00 AM. These days I think it's full of Los Al High grads in their 40s and 50s. Party!!!! If anyone has any historical photos of this place or the old Los Alamitos Blvd. nudie bar The Sugar Shack, please send them to me at the radio station. joe@indie1031.com
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Review from Ryan T.
Huntington Beach, CA
9/6/2008
Went on a Friday night, was decently crowded, smelled like CRAP! We left after 10 seconds.
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Review from Mike E.
Anaheim, CA
12/4/2008
All I have to say is I LOVE dive bars! This place is the classic dive bar like any other. My good bro lives across the street and we hit this place up after taco surf happy hour, like 3$ cocktails and the rest is history. The bartender was way nice. and the locals are cool..
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Review from Maximillian M.
San Francisco, CA
7/6/2010
Blue Moon on tap is the only "premium" beer they had, which was fine. 50 cent pool, video bowling, jukebox... the basics, really.
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Review from Lisa Z.
2/4/2009
I also like this bar a lot. I have gone to the Sportsman across the street and the main differences are: 1. Sportsman is a bikini bar, and darker, a bit more retro-feeling; 2. Sportsman has some older regulars, but a lot of younger 20ish patrons, there for the girls or the pool 3. Boon Docks has more of a neighborhood bar/ sportsbar type feel and is better lit. Boon Docks does not appear to be in a late 70s early 80s time warp, although I don't mind that, I actually like it. It's got that sportsbar, comfy neighborhood bar type feel. I had a good time playing the trivia game here with my husband. The bartender here makes a mean Absolut Pear and Tonic, loved it. Popcorn machine here too, that's a plus. Bathrooms here are a bit dark and near the back door/parking lot. The parking lot here is off of the side street. Yeah I would come back here. I like both of these apparent "rival" bars but when I went into both of them the same evening, without mentioning the other, no biggie.
Listed in: Dive Bars
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Review from Chris C.
Los Alamitos, CA
7/23/2008
This bar is awesome! I have been coming here for years and it is a great place for a stiff pour at the right price. The local crowd is friendly and the internet jukebox has any song you want to hear. They have a full bar and a wide selection of beer. The bartenders are really cool. Be sure to bring your ID. It starts getting good around 10pm any night of the week. Bring your friends or come solo, its gauranteed a good time.
