Dunbar's

Frommer's Review

Sprawling over at least five distinctly different dining and drinking areas, this is the busiest, most active, and most legendary bar and pub in Ocean Park. Painted an arresting shade of tangerine, it was established in 1982. The best way to navigate the labyrinth of Dunbar's is to wander through its various spaces: A large-screen TV room on the second floor attracts a macho, mostly North American crowd; a ground-floor pool room appeals to a deceptively affluent crowd of Spanish-speaking lawyers and doctors; and the various bars and cubbyholes ripple with possibilities for making friends or influencing your romantic destiny. Well-prepared menu items, each conceived by California-born veteran chef Trent Eichler, pour out of the busy kitchens. Examples include thick sandwiches (Spanish chorizo sausage with roasted peppers is an ongoing favorite), omelets, pastas, and juicy steaks. French fries are made from vitamin-rich yams and conventional potatoes. Favorite drinks include (what else?) Sex on the Beach and lots of margaritas. Dunbar's was named, incidentally, after a particularly eccentric character in Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

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