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    Busby's West

    3.4 (815 reviews)
    Closed 5:00 pm - 1:30 am (Next day)
    Updated 2 months ago

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    BUSBY'S WEST ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
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    Loud
    Good for dancing

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    Awesome meal!
    Mark M.

    I came through on a Sunday to watch a game and after finding parking easily on the street, I noticed immediately that it was packed! There were a lot of cheers and great camaraderie throughout the place. I was luckily enough to find a seat by one of the TVs and enjoyed the game while cheering for my team with other fans nearby. The arcade games were in use as always and the service was great as usual. There was a diverse group of fans and during my last visit, the chicken wings were really good. They came with a few veggie sticks and dressing, which added to the flavor even more! There are always plenty of boardgames to play and a vast amount of screens to look at!

    Charles M.

    What an amazing smash burger. Like this was top tier. Everything meshed extremely well together. 5 stars my friends. Kudos to you all and the staff.

    Fooseball basketball shooter and darts
    Andrew ..

    Really great sports bar. There's a bunch of different rooms so it makes it feel like you're watching with your friends in your own space. There's also tons of games like pool and ski ball. The outdoor area is very pleasant as well. I've never had the food but there's a bucket of beer that's a good value. The service is always friendly. Good spot!

    The unassuming exterior
    Spencer K.

    The short: Relaxed sports bar -- When it's not a Buffalo Bills game day that is. Decent bar food, nice selection of beers, and a very friendly staff. The long: I was having a tough day and my girlfriend agreed that I needed to get out of the house for some food (and maybe a beer) to get a reset. I came to Busby's, my new favorite West LA bar and grill, looking for the collegial feel I've had here in the past in which to enjoy a burger (yes, yes, I know I said I'm giving up meat to help the environment) and a beer. Anyway, I headed over to Busby's and the place was empty... 4:00 on Memorial Day and the place is empty (see the photos). And yet I stayed in an empty bar to have a beer (in this case a Tortugo double IPA) and a turkey burger. As I'm writing this more people are showing up, so I feel less pathetic, but lest I make this review about myself (oh, you know I will... keep reading), let's stick to the restaurant, shall we? Ok, so Gabriel (behind the bar) guided me on my IPA journey today with an improvised unofficial flight. He then guided me through some black and tans, sours and snake bites... The turkey burger was middle of the road (that is to say, it was a turkey burger), well spiced and balanced. To put it succinctly, my socks stayed on. The bar is beginning to fill with a crowd that is quite friendly, pleasant and young. (Though the guy next to me is 81... but young at heart). The turkey burger was average but the rest of the food is actually quite good, though old time regulars will grouse about the french fry format changing from steak fries to string fries. The cheese pizza was well above bar food average. All in consideration, the staff, the patrons, the taps and the food combine to make this place a winner.

    IPA please
    Dezmond B.

    Great beer at Busbys for a really great price. The bartender was very attentive and noticed me instantly to get me a drink. The vibes are really cool and lowkey. The location has a lot of TVs and seats to sit an enjoy the sporting event of your choice. The nachos are full of flavor and heavy with toppings. The jalapeños was an amazing touch. Also the drinks are a very strong pour so come prepared!

    My mom and I at Busby's West in Santa Monica (Bills Backers Bar!)

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    Great bar and even better waitstaff. Bridget is the main we reason we always come back. She's the best

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    Margarita was weak and full of ice. Asked for the 2nd one with less ice. STILL... I'm a light weight.

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    Cody rocks! Great bar and time. I would recommend the experience. The beer is cold and everyone is nice.

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    Is Busby's pet friendly?

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    How late are they open until now?

    1:30am 7 days a week

    Do they have a dj on Tuesday? What is the best day to come here?

    Best day is Sunday, Monday night, Thursday

    Does this bar have a ping pong table currently?

    No.

    Can you wear hats?

    yes

    Is it 18+ or 21+? Trying to watch the march madness games tomorrow.

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    By any Chance u know if busbys west opens early today?

    Should be open now!

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    Review Highlights - Busby's West

    While Bridget is the main reason we keep coming back, we've also been impressed by the happy hour deals and good food.

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    There is a category of Los Angeles bar that exists outside the city's relentless cycle of openings…read moreand closings and soft launches and Instagram hype, a category that doesn't require a door policy or a design concept borrowed from a Wes Anderson film. It is the bar that walks in and earns the neighborhood's trust in a few short years, the bar that feels like it's been there forever because it figured out immediately what it was supposed to be. Tiny's Hi-Dive on Pico is that bar. It occupies the old Arsenal space, which if you've been in West LA long enough you watched go through its own identity crisis -- I had a trip-hop DJ residency there in a previous life, before it transmogrified into some paisley-wallpapered ersatz club that couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Tiny's has no such confusion. The name says dive. The floors say otherwise. The cocktails are made well, the food is made well, and the place is clean, which shouldn't be noteworthy but in a city where "dive bar" has become shorthand for either performative squalor or actual squalor, it is. It's a Chicago bar, which in Los Angeles means something specific. It means the hot dogs are correct. It means there are Italian beef sandwiches, and the Italian beef sandwiches are not a novelty item or a nod to a trend but an actual offering from people who understand the architecture of giardiniera and jus and thinly sliced beef on a roll that's engineered to get soggy at exactly the right rate. The food at Tiny's is way better than it has any right to be in a bar where nobody would blame you for ordering nothing but beer, and this is the tell -- when a bar kitchen is good without needing to be good, it means someone in the back actually gives a damn, not because the Yelp reviews demand it but because that's how they were raised. The happy hour lasts most of the day, which is either a business model or a philosophy, and at Tiny's the distinction is academic. The effect is that the place fills in waves and each wave brings a different crowd. The retirement set drifts in around lunch -- guys who've been coming here long enough to have a spot at the bar and a drink that appears without being ordered. By happy hour the mix gets eclectic: locals, people waiting out the particular misery of westbound Pico traffic at five-thirty, students, the kind of neighborhood cross-section that only happens at a place where a beer and a hot dog won't cost you twenty dollars. Later it gets busier and louder and on Wednesday nights there's live band karaoke, which is the superior form of karaoke, the form where actual musicians play behind you so your version of "White Wedding'" sounds ten percent less terrible than it would over a backing track. The jukebox is killer, which is a small detail that is not a small detail. A jukebox tells you everything about who owns a bar -- whether they trust their customers, whether they have taste, whether they understand that the difference between a good night and a great night is often just the right song at the right moment. The owners of Tiny's understand this. They are truly excellent people, the kind of owner-operators who are in the room and who care about the room and who have built a place that reflects something genuine about themselves rather than something calculated about the market. West Los Angeles is not a neighborhood that gets romanticized. It's a place you drive through, a stretch of Pico and Olympic and Santa Monica Boulevard that connects the Westside to the rest of the city, lined with strip malls and dry cleaners and the kind of mid-century commercial architecture that nobody photographs. It does not have a brand. It does not have a moment. What it has, on Pico, is Tiny's Hi-Dive -- a bar where they learn your dog's name before they learn yours, where there are treats behind the bar, where the bartenders will ask about your dog when you come in and mourn with you when they pass. That's not a pet policy. That's a value system. And it tells you everything you need to know about the place.

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