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Gabe's Bar and Grill
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Categories: Sports Bars, Restaurants [Edit]
Neighborhood: Palms2965 S Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 473-1667
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Late Night
- Music:
- Live
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Sat, Sun
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
15 reviews for Gabe's Bar and Grill
Dude... for a dive this place is AWESOME. Went there around 8:15 last night... the other patrons ALL new each other. They were laughing and friendly and would SCREAM OUT "Happy Holidays" as they left and all hugged good bye. It was awesome.
The juke box was great because there was a random mix of music. You could hear Christmas tunes then you'd hear country then you'd hear Warren G's REGULATE (which i love).
As for drinks, my hef was (i think) $3.25. Whenever I tipped the bartender (yes, there's one... and she totes reminds me of my small town in TN), she was SO thankful for it! Not like in a creepy people don't pay me enough way, but in an honest to God, "Thanks for coming to my bar that I love." And her boss was TOTALLY across the bar having drinks and playing some interactive touch screen game.
The entire bar was decorated for Christmas, and a dude rolled his BIKE right on in (granted, I helped him with the door...nothing but love for my fellow pedal bikers). AWESOME!
As for food, there's a printed sheet of about 4 appetizers, 6 sandwiches and 2 salads that you can order. There's also a special of the day (yesterday's was jambalaya). To order, you WALK UP TO THE KITCHEN where this awesome dude is just cooking/ hanging out and tell him what you want. You pay him there (in cash... there's an ATM in the place), and you get your food.
The veggie burger was awesome, the chicken wings were good, the chili cheese fries tasty. YUM!!!!! Also, he told me NOTHING is frozen... everything's fresh.
So, i paid for 2 hefs, a burger with fries, AND the buffalo chicken wings (which i had half of 1... eyes bigger than tum tum), and i only paid $20. 20 BUCKS!!! I shit you not!!!!!!
This place rules. I'm TOTALLY biking here next time.
So months later I was out being a hypocrite...
I'd told my boss I was on a fasting from nicotine (I legitamitely had been for a few weeks subconsciously), coffee, & booze... but well Friday happened and I turned into super woman/hypocrite.
I figured after bypassing having 2/3, I might as go all the way. I mean otherwise it would have just been laziness right?
Friday night and of all the places... I laughed as we approached. I distinctly remembered the hum of the neon lights outside.
I'd nearly forgotten how horrible this place was. They mix the drinks poorly and there's no beers on tap, nor is there Blue Moon in bottled form to choose from.
Drinks mixed poorly: cape cods, white russians...
Well ok so a well mixed white russian in a dive bar is pushing it.
Saving grace:
Scooby Snacks
I have to admit that drink was pretty decent. It has whipped cream, coconut rum, midori, & pineapple juice in it.
It was kareoke night. It's been kareoke every time that I've been in here. They had basketball on tonight and a board with the standings of all of the NFL teams. Steelers parafanalia and old photos of players.
There's a few pool tables and...
This is a great undercover bar. Are you seeing someone whom your friends would give you crap about? Consider here because I guarantee you, they would not likely look for you here if you are under the age of 45.
Bathroom here had pictures of pinups in it... but it wasn't clean.
Gabes I really was trying tonight to give you a good shot this time. But as I'd expected you failed to make the mark yet again...
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6/10/2009
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Great steelers bar....but drinks are over priced for even cheap domestics...$4 bucks?? Get Real Gabe!!
Food is ok, not good or bad.
The secret is walk to the mexican restaurant in the plaza next store...grab cheap mini-pitcher of beer, then head to gabes....
Maybe I am just biased when it comes to GOOD dive bars....especially steelers bars...not that I am comparing the bars in LA to the ones I know in Pittsburgh....
Wow... gotta give em 5 stars for the perfect dive. There is nothing cool about this place... which is the whole point of a dive bar, right? I don't go there to impress anyone and no one goes there to impress me... just the break I need from the LA crowds. I only suggest this to the midwest crowds since the coastal kids won't be hanging out here. This is the perfect getaway from pretentiousness... oh yeah!
Definitely a total dive. But not in a scummy/dirty way whatsoever. The local crowd seemed clean, friendly, and very welcoming - a little bit of a 'Cheers' vibe goin on at Gabe's.
Nothing spectacular about the place... except I have never seen such enthusiasm around karaoke in my entire life. Everyone was singing and dancing together... ending each bout with a standing ovation. Obviously, the later it got, they drunker the crowd, the worse (or better in some opinions) the performance, and the louder the ovation. I'm ashamed to say I was too shy to sing a little song myself. This definitely would have been a welcoming opportunity.
Beers were 3-4 bucks, pool was $.50, and there was free parking and quite a bit of nefarious partying going on in the back lot.
Gabes is a total effin dive. And goddamn do I LOVE it.
Im an adopted Steelers fan, and holy mothershit, this is Steelers heaven. If you can come here and not make friends as a steelers fan, you are seriously doing NOTHING right. The beer is cheap, they let you bring in whatever food you want... be it IHOP from across the street pregame, Habit at halftime, or big buffet style platters shared among all fellow Steelers fans. How can you argue with this?
If you are looking for some place to show off how much you paid for your sunglasses, or meet someone gorgeous... you are in the wrong place. You come to Gabes because its a shithole. Because its gnarly as all hell. Because you know that if you yell 'Fuck the Steelers!' on a Sunday morning, you will get beat up by 40 dudes with huge beer bellies. Because you want to see how loud a bar can get when Ben throws a 40 yarder to Hines. Because you want to meet real people.
And thats what Gabes is... Real.
This is the place to go on a Sunday to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers play some football. If you were to walk in while a game is going on you would think you walked through some sort of transcontinental portal and ended up in a the 'burgh.
There's no food sold here other than chips, but I've seen people bring in platters of meatballs and coolers full of subs. Around the corner is the Hamburger Habit which is a great place for some grub during half time.
There beer is cheap and cold, and the patrons are huge Steelers fans so it's a great place to watch the game. I've never been here at a time not during a game, so it sounds like it's a little less crowded.
If you're coming from the south, take the National Blvd ext off of I-405 and just go straight (behind the H.Habit) and there's plenty of parking.
The bar staff is really friendly, though the bartender is a Patriots fan, we don't hold that against him, except during the NE vs Pitt games.
I find it amusing that 3 of the 9 posted reviews use the phrase "riff raff." I guess now it's 4 out of 10. Well, shee-yit...I *like* riff raff. So, unsurprisingly, I like this bar.
What keeps Gabe's from 4-star hole-in-the-wall greatness is the beer selection. No taps, and the bottles are okay, but $4 per bottle of middling micros like Sam Adams always leads me to do math about how much money I could have saved drinking at home. It beats all those LA bars charging $6 for a mediocre pint (omgwtfnewcastle) but is sorely inferior to being able to get a pitcher. Also, the last time I went, they weren't taking credit cards. "Cash only" should be reserved for B- and C-rated Asian restaurants, taquerias, and true dive bars ($4/bottle = not really a dive bar, even if you think all the people over 30 are Rilly, Rilly Sketchy.)
But, lets end with something nice: I really liked the KJ on my last karaoke visit. She didn't hog the mic, play favorites, or spend a lot of time bullshitting around with filler music. Very cool.
Dopest bar. We went randomly one night on the recommendation of a friend. It's definitely a divey feel but after going several times the bartender, bouncer, and karaoke girl know us and love us, and we've expanded our group to like 20.
Friendly staff and regulars, cheap drinks, and a good vibe make for a fun night with karaoke, billiards, and darts.
This is actually a fun place. Yeah there are some weird people in there. The drinks are cheap etc. They dont have food, but you can order food to be delivered etc and eat it there.
I dont go all the time. Its just a bunch of regulars.
I live walking distance to this bar and had always been curious about it, so one Saturday night my homies and I decide to finally check it out. The door man looked us up and down and gave us a snicker. I was the first to walk in, and everyone (all 7 of them) in the bar stared at me, I felt like I was in one of those movies where a group of people walk into a bar they don't belong in and everyone wants to kick their ass, I've seen the endings to many of these movies so I turned around and told my team "fall back, fall back!" I have two words for this place -riff raff
So I was watching football at home and my cable went out. I needed to get somewhere quick to watch the rest of the game. This place is only a few blocks away so we went there. After you walk in it feels like you've teleported to the midwest. Very very bizarre crowd in there. I'll give it a 2 for cheap drinks...
I agree, it's mostly regulars and older riff-raff. Sausage fest. BUT, the bartenders are cool, and the drinks are CHEAP! They also have pool and darts, which is cool. The karaoke DJ's selection is pretty good, even though he plays favorites. It's usually pretty dead here, I wouldn't recommend this be your first choice. As for watching a game here, I can't comment because I've only been here on Fri nights.
Word to Pamela R: Riff raff. Avoid at all costs.
The only thing better than the food are all the hot women!
