Good Neighbor Bar

Tucked away in sleepy Altadena, Good Neighbor Bar is an excellent Northeast L.A. cocktail spot run by the same talented team behind Downtown’s Everson Royce Bar and Santa Monica’s Vamos Vamos. The stylish, minimally appointed space features plenty of tables and ample seats at the bar, and while there’s no food menu, you'll typically find a pop-up serving out of the parking lot next door on the weekends. As with ERB, which we've long considered one of the city’s best bars, all of the cocktails here are excellent. The specialty drink menu includes highballs, “booze-forward,” “modern classics,” “exotic/tiki,” and “shaken with citrus.” Order whatever your heart desires—whether that's wine by the glass, some beer or one of Good Neighbor’s fancier house concoctions.