Gold Coast Bar

Gold Coast Bar sits at the eastern, quieter end of Santa Monica Boulevard — the part of the WeHo commercial strip that transitions into the residential blocks between WeHo and Silver Lake. The bar is deliberately, almost defiantly unpretentious: a dive bar in the classic sense, with none of the visual polish or cover charges that characterise the more prominent WeHo venues half a mile to the west. The crowd is local, mixed in age and type, and oriented toward actual conversation rather than the performance of being seen. Gold Coast is the bar that WeHo locals go to when they want to drink cheaply and quietly without the tourist and weekend-visitor crowd that fills The Abbey and Mickey's. It represents the layer of WeHo bar culture that pre-dates the neighbourhood's emergence as a tourist destination — the neighbourhood bar that was there before the go-go dancers arrived. For visitors who are tired of the polished WeHo bar formula but who want to stay in the neighbourhood, Gold Coast is the immediate alternative.