Night Life: A toast to Los Feliz's new bar scene

Los Feliz is in need of fresh blood. In the last year or so, two of Los Feliz's nightlife landmarks closed their doors: Tangiers and the longtime swing-dancing standard, the Derby.

There's not much left of the old Los Feliz scene now except for the Dresden, a stalwart of '70s décor down to its lounge stars Marty and Elayne, such permanent fixtures they might be retrofitted for the Big One.

But a few new and upcoming establishments are oxygenating the neighborhood, tapping the sweet spot of urban professionals, increasingly affluent but far from shedding their East-of-Hollywood cool.

-- Margaret Wappler

Photo: The new wine bar from Dustin Lancaster, a longtime Cafe Stella bartender, has been a hit in the neighborhood since opening in early July. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

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this is great and all unless you live here not enough parking and with valets parking cars on the street good luck having guest over.
permit parking on the side streets is needed!