LA got there first
Remember how Ontario has been seeking (for almost two years now) a liquor license for its library cafe? One retired Ontario cop likes to reverse the idea of a bar in the library, joking: "Let's put a library in the bar."
I was reminded of all that on Sunday when I met friends at downtown LA's Library Bar.
LA's version isn't really in the library -- the Central Library is a block away -- but this gastropub has a wall of books in a cozy area with couches, rugs and a fireplace, akin to one of those personal libraries in a country estate, and drinks have literary names: the Scarlet Letter, the Tequila Mockingbird, the Odyssey, etc. My friends liked the drinks (I stuck to cranberry juice) and we all liked the food: burgers, fries, beet salad, edamame and pork belly sandwich.
The Library Bar. What will they think of next?
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Sounds like my kind of place, David!
I'll have Dewey Decimal Daiquiri, please.