Gold Room

While the neighborhood around it continues to gentrify, this mostly-locals bar keeps things honest with top-shelf tequilas and Mexican League futbol. Sure, there’s now a section of the menu devoted to “specialty cocktails,” but this family-run bar is still the same dingey dive to the core. The jukebox has amazing Mexican hits mixed with hilarious stateside hammers (think Meatloaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love”), and the strip of ceiling above the booth seats has tiny lights stuck in it, making for a kitschy indoor night sky. The Gold Room is great, but not the place to flaunt a weird haircut or bust out a lofty attitude: locals and staff have zero tolerance for posers.