BarChick loves books, sure, but the problem with libraries is that they don’t serve booze.  Cue Library Bar, downtown LA’s solution combining high bookshelves with killer cocktails, vintage globes, open fireplaces and bangin’ burgers.

The dudes behind this place have more years of experience then they would like to let on so they really know their sh*t.  Chat literature whilst sipping on a ‘Tennessee Williams’, or sit up at the bar and peruse the witty and damn impressive cocktail menu. Tequila Mockingbird anyone?

The food also gets top marks with beauties like the pork belly skewers and the Library Burger in all its caramelized onion glory.

So with a leather bound hardback in one hand and a cocktail in the other we’re with Fitzgerald on this one “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned.