Best areas for early drinks
Santa Monica Boulevard is convenient when the night may become a bar crawl. Melrose and Fairfax make sense for dinner-first plans, and Sunset works when the group wants a more polished start.
- Choose Santa Monica Boulevard for walkable second stops.
- Choose Melrose for dinner, patios, and a slightly calmer pace.
- Choose Sunset when the night needs a view or hotel-bar setting.