Best Neighborhood Bar

In our experience, bars known by a person's name followed by an apostrophe and an "s" tend to be good ones -- in a help-yourself-to a-bag-of-stale popcorn-drink-your-$3-mystery draft-and-stock-the-jukebox-with-Creedence kind of way. At Sheddy's, though, the bathrooms aren't pocked with witless marker-scrawled diatribes, the stall doors snapped off to discourage toilet seat coke-sniffers. There is also cheese. And fancy ham. And Ethiopian dried beef jerky that, before it reconstitutes and blooms, tastes alarmingly like magic mushrooms. The interior is dark and red, with wobbly wooden tables lining one wall, some stools along a small bar and, in the back, a few cushion-lined booths. Incense perfumes the air; modern rock plays on the stereo. It's loud, but not uncomfortably so, smelly, but in a nice way. No classic sippin' beers grace the menu, but $4 bottles of Molson work well enough -- that is, if you don't want to go with something weightier from the worldly beer selection. In addition, happy hour runs from 5-8 p.m. on weekdays, and knocks a few dollars off domestic bottles. Imagine a Scrimshaw Pilsner, for example, for $3, and then go to Sheddy's and experience the reality. -Andrew Simmons

Source: LA Weekly

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