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Liquid Zoo
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- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Live, Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Wed, Fri, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
10 reviews for Liquid Zoo
You don't go to Beverly Hills for tacos, you don't go Little Italy for Chinese food.
Yeah, ok, Liquid Zoo, not the best area, not beautiful, not trendy or hip. It just, "is." When you go to a certain place, you should have some kind of idea what you can expect.
The service is cool, the drinks are cool, and the place is open at 11am seven days a week, now that is "done with consistency." I can't even get a beer on campus before 12 man!
And...I'm an optimist. Place is kind of empty most of the time--HEY, PERSONALIZED service!!!
Don't expect creme brulee and caviar, and you'll do just fine. Dig the yellow paint man.
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Eek indeed. I'm usually not one to judge divey bars (as I adore them,) but Liquid Zoo was divey in the herpes-rank stank-shady way. Upon entering, all the greasy men had their eyes on my friends and I as if we were prime Mignon.
The bartendress was as drunk as a ragging hormonal teen, and was literally rubbing up on everyone and everything within a 4-foot radius. I mean, if that's how she rolls, it's gravy. But not being able to get a drink 'cause she's just -that- far gone?
Not.
Cool.
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Ok, so the zoo isn't the nicest bar on the planet - it's downfall is the neighborhood more than anything. The saving graces are a few of the people that work there. Mia, the bartender has a heart of gold and wants more than anything for you to leave the bar sloshed. Mark, who runs the music open-mic on tuesdays is a very nice supportive guy who will let you play an hour long set if he likes you. Fridays and Saturdays mean Karaoke with JenSing productions, Chelsea, Matty, and Jen - who are great at what they do and insist you have a great time! On, a slow night you can sing 14x on a busy night 2x. All in all if you can brave the battle to the space you can probably have a good time. The drinks are pretty cheap, the entertainment is pretty good, the staff get ya drunk, and half the patrons are cool people... the other half are undercover cops, hookers, and homeless people!
addition- so apparently i offended the bartender in some way (she used to be one of my best friends ... ) and now she is a huge b*tch to me.... so...... um - i guess the only good reason to go is now down to having a mean bartender- don't ever go there... it sucks.
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I used to share the opinions of the prior Yelpers... that it had crack whore clientele, fucked up bathrooms and it was, in general, a skeevy place. I work in the area and went there only a few times a few years ago. Place just smelled, literally, like trouble. So I avoided it.
After being invited there early last year by a friend who does standup at their Wednesday Comedy Nights, I quickly changed my tune. It's changed, and it's immensely better.
Ownership had polished it up and installed a doorman (the lack of which was what led to so many problems a few years ago; altercations and working girls since then have diminished considerably).
The female employees are veteran dive bartenders (Studio Suite, The Wild) who can handle their shit and even get down and dirty to kick (literally) troublesome clients out on the street, but if you're on their good side, they'll make you feel like you're a king and you'll come back time and time again.
Sometimes, you're find a small chafing dish filled with homemade pasta or chili, or Sloppy Joe fixings with buns on the side for anyone to enjoy. A nice, personal touch.
The crowd are now no longer "junkies, winos, pimps, murderers, drug dealers and thieves, whores and waste-oids" ; the people here are genuine, colorful, unpretentious, earthy and fun. You've got locals, blue collar guys, suited executives, off duty cops, sports fans, comedians, musicians, Valley Presbyterian nurses who walk in in their scrubs... even the drunks that live in the alley behind it are fun as hell.
Granted, it is tiny, but I've always been able to find a stool. Always.
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I just went for the first time last night for the Monday night open mic comedy. It's a good room to work out in. You don't go to open mics expecting to get laughs.
There was a doorman there and the place seemed fairly clean with a civil clientele. Everyone was talking about how much nicer the place is now than it used to be. I'm glad I wasn't around back then.
Little hole in the wall bar, about three blocks from where I live, not a great neighborhood. Some nights are OK, but some it's all scary thug people, not that I'm scared of thugs, the most harm they do is mean mug you.
Wednesday is comedy night, and I prefer getting a root canal to watching open mic stand up comedy. Drinks are stiff though, and for that, I'll rate the place a 2.25 stars.
It's a very interesting place very busy during the day with the neighborhood locals who can walk there at night however its pretty empty except Fridays and Saturday when they have karaoke Wednesday can be it or miss with the stand up comedy night
The cool thing is the hookers they are very entertaining to watch and make best oh who they will pick up 1st..
They only have bottled beer unfortunately your best bet is our mixed drinks from jack and coke for 5.00 or stoli soda for 5.00 as well.
Some nights you get the van nuys trash witch is always entertaining but most nights its locals and music from the internet juke box
But if you like dive bars then you will love the zoo...
Zoo is right. A menagerie of whores and waste-oids. I think it's run by some Thai lady-boys. If you want to fuck bring cash or drugs and a paper-bag for "her" head. It wouldn't be so uncomfortable to drink in this company if the place didn't have such bad feng shui. I can deal with murderers, drug dealers and thieves, cuz I'm cool like that, but low ceilings and dark wall-paint give me the heebie-jeebies. The pool table is small and the walls crowd in around it so that you're constantly banging the cue stick. The whole fucking place stinks like new paint to cover up the smell of filth and disease. If you can handle rough crowds you can score free drinks, dope and head, but if you worry about walking down deserted streets alone then you should stay away. Bottom line - this place would be OK if they tore the roof off and let the rain pour in once in a while.
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This is definitely not the place to come with a group. There is barely any seating on Friday and Saturday nights (the karaoke nights) for one or two people since this place is so small. So if you're planning to go, prepare to be standing most of the night. The karaoke list is pretty good but the croud isn't as supportive of the performers as other local karaoke dives. Another big minus is that there are NO beers on tap. Either plan to buy their mixed drinks or drink out of a bottle (which you can do at home).
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This place blows. What a shithole. And talk about DEEP valley. Why would anyone drive up here or live up here?!! I mean people knock the valley, but this is DEEP valley. On the super up north. Valley isn't bad. At least I don't have parking issues, or trannies to deal with, or the constant smell of urine. Ok the Liquid Zoo is not a place you want to go...EVER. I was dared into doing a comedy competition against my college roommate and I was to be on stage for my first time doing comedy in a real club against my ex roommate's 6 years of experience. I was allowed to go up once or twice ahead of time to get a feel for it. Cut to...Liquid Zoo comedy night with Shannon H who was kind enough to take me to this place. The "open mic" sucked on a level that defies description. And I have seen TONS of shitty comedy. Earl S ran the show and he's hilarious, but he couldn't even make this place good. Needless to say I did not perform there. It was that bad. 1.5 Stars. Wow...really terrible! On the upside, the drink prices weren't so bad. That's why it doesn't get 1 star.
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