"While the rest of the city gets blacked-out with strangers, you and your high school clique prefer to do that amongst yourselves - and that’s why you’re going to The Mandrake. This neighborhood cocktail bar on La Cienega is the kind of place where you can take over a massive booth with your friends, watch old movies being projected on the wall, and cuddle up in each other’s laps while drinking heavily until the lights come on." - Brant Cox