We'll leave it to you to find the other ones. One of the entrances is through the wall of an old telephone booth. Even getting into those rooms is like a trip through Narnia. And there's even a wall lined with red lockers to make you feel like you might be in a scene from The Breakfast Club in real life.įitting in with Koreatown culture, Break Room 86 also has four karaoke rooms for groups of 10 to 20 people that guests can rent out. You can toss some quarters into the vintage arcade games like Pac-Man and Galaga that sit in a corner of the room. The walls are covered with cassette tapes, old stereos, speakers and band posters. Music from the likes of Prince, Tears for Fears and Simple Minds is blasting while folks dance in front of stacked vintage TVs showing retro '80s videos. Suddenly, you're in a reddish and dimly-lit bar with leather booths, gig equipment boxes as coffee tables, and tiled walls and ceiling as if you're in a New York subway station. and end up at a snack machine that also just so happens to double as a door to Break Room 86. To get into the bar, you walk a long way through a loading dock off Ardmore Ave. LAist visited Break Room 86 on opening night on Tuesday. Break Room 86 is the newest addition to The Line hotel's growing hip bar and food scene, and it's all about the impeccable '80s touches that make us feel giddy in this space.
In the same vein as Good Times at Davey Wayne's and La Descarga, Houston Hospitality has done it again: created an immersive bar experience where you feel like you're in another country or decade. Break Room 86 is a magical and straight-up cool bar where you enter through a retro vending machine and get transported to the '80s.
A new bar at the Line hotel in Koreatown just opened and it fulfills our need for nostalgia and kitsch.
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