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5.0 of 5 stars.
Ok so with all the hype my dear Lauren B gave me about this place which she has continually invited me like 4-5 Mondays in a row. I finally got a chance to make it over here and its pretty rad, good...
yelp.com - user review - 05/06/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My favorite dive bar in Culver city! Its laid-back and very non-hollywood pretentious attitude. There's no cover! Which is great! The DJs are amazing they mix old school with new school and the...
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
me and my girl came here on a friday nite. got there early tho, like around 10pm. parking - easy parking. we were able to find street parking right in front of the place.cover - no cover when we got...
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I come here on mondays only.I like this place. It is so dark so I can't see what people look like and visa versa (I like it that way). This place is way too funky! The DJs (myspace.com/damfunk) are...
yelp.com - user review - 04/08/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I used to go to Carbon quite often because I lived close by. Thus, I have been there everyday of the week, but not successively of course. I like Carbon because of the following reasons:1) Good/decent...
yelp.com - user review - 02/24/2009
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This ais a clean spot out in culver city. The drinks are fairly priced. One thing about this place that i do live is that its in the same city as my favorite korean bbq restaurant gyenari. i love getting...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/26/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I went here a few years ago and we still talk about to this day how cool it was. I haven't gone back though because when we talk about it we are reminded that this place is tiny. I wish it was bigger!...
yelp.com - user review - 01/21/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I finally hit the LA club scene with my buddies.This was my first time checking out the Culver City Club scene. It seemed to be an interesting bar, as they showed silent movies on their TV screens...
yelp.com - user review - 01/05/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I was there last night and it was empty. I think there were about 20 people in the whole place and this was during the supposed high time: 11 to midnight. It's a small place, which makes things...
yelp.com - user review - 01/04/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Like everyone else I would love this place if it were BIGGER. But big-ups to the monday night DJ's. We need more FUNK in this city (PS if anyone knows where to go to dance to it, and hear it, please...
yelp.com - user review - 12/27/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
i did like the music and the cool old vampire film and the red lighting. i did not like being crammed in there with so many people...where is the fire marshall when you need him?when you're short like...
yelp.com - user review - 12/22/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
guys always tend to have a different perspective than women. carbon is a perfect example and will go lengths in explaining why i am giving this bar one to two stars more than my fellow companions.i...
yelp.com - user review - 12/19/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I learned something new last week. Sprinting is much more fun when you have polyphenols in your system. Secondly, I have no sense of direction in Culver City. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of LA and...
yelp.com - user review - 12/12/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Having been to one or two crazy concerts in my life, my personal bubble radius isn't too large. When it comes to try to mingle with some friends and everyone smooshed up against them with cocktails...
yelp.com - user review - 12/12/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I'm a little confused. I mean, I LOVE dive bars. I LOVE hip hop. You'd think I'd be so into this place I'd chain myself to the wall and threaten never to leave, right?For some reason it just didn't do...
yelp.com - user review - 12/10/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
If you enjoy partying in a shoebox with over priced drinks...
yelp.com - user review - 12/06/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
One of my best friends used to live near Carbon. She was a frequenter. If at the end of the night, there was nothing to do, Carbon it was.The meh: The drinks are okay. Their cosmo tasted like juice....
yelp.com - user review - 11/26/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
no cover. decent hip hop. small dance floor. mostly mellow black people. chill spot.
yelp.com - user review - 11/16/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Our second stop of the night on Halloween. Thee best music I've heard in a bar, hands down! When we arrived there were only a few people inside so we brought the party rolling in 11 deep. At first we...
yelp.com - user review - 11/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
YAY for dive bars that play good music and for unpretentious folks that come out for a good time and to shake their shit. I think someone mentioned a similarity to Radio in Oakland... definitely!...
yelp.com - user review - 10/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
LOVED the spot. Free and the music is the bomb!!! Chill hip hop and some yay area shit and Regae too. Great crowd that just wanted to dance!! it's deff exactly my kinda spot... but really really...
yelp.com - user review - 10/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I wish I lived somewhere close by...My friend and I drove all the way from Fullerton to check this place out because we're just sick and tired of going to the same spots week after week. It was love...
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is a tiny little joint. It's petite size is overcompensated by the NO cover and dope vibe on the inside. They spin good hip-hop (for the most part:) and reggae, at least on Saturday nights. The...
yelp.com - user review - 09/03/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This bar is so close to my apartment I contemplate walking there and overpaying for drinks vs. staying at home cuddling my six pack. Sometimes I do both. At least there's an In N' Out across the...
yelp.com - user review - 09/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
carbon is such a guilty pleasure of mine.it reminds me of a high school friend's dad's makeshift basement bar, and whenever i visit LA i've got to stop here for a tick and pay my respects. this bar is...
yelp.com - user review - 06/25/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The closest thing to a local bar in CC, I hit up Carbon when my friends and I are feeling too lazy to drive out to the Westside or Hollywood. The spot is tiny, there's usually a DJ spinning, and...
yelp.com - user review - 06/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Almost immediately after walking into the building I felt at home. Not a lot of fancy furniture, but rather all the trappings of your typical dive bar including pleather/naugahyde seating, high stools...
yelp.com - user review - 05/20/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Always good times at Carbon!! A tiny, tiny, tiny local bar where everyone who goes dances like there's no tomorrow. Beautiful, down to earth crowd whose only mission is to have a good time. The...
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
i was in LA visiting friends and one of them brought me here on a thursday night. i loved it! it wasn't all pretentious and fake. there was good hip hop being played, a good vibe, a great eclectic...
yelp.com - user review - 05/04/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is my cheers...The music is always good, the crowd is always hype. Its the only place of its kind in LA...no Hollywood bullshit , no cover, you can roll through in jeans, just everyone dancing...
yelp.com - user review - 04/23/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Tuesday Nights this is my spot. who doesnt love underground reggae till the weeeee hours of the morning?i stumbled upon this place first on a saturday and i must say it was packed.the place is VERY...
yelp.com - user review - 04/20/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Fun place, NO cover, cheap drink, Great DJ, the dj is great with the mix reggae, hip hop, old school hip, I love love the music here. Its a diver bar, every comes to dance drink and mingle. Its small...
yelp.com - user review - 03/30/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
This place is a local dive bar - no frills. Full of locals but apparently not my kind of locals - seeing as how I'm the only one giving this bar such a low rating.It is dark, dirty, and you feel like...
yelp.com - user review - 03/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
possibly my favorite place in culver cit-tay. here's what you need to know: tiny, full of locals (i.e., real folks, not scenesters), consistently good music (90's hip hop; reggae/dancehall bangers;...
yelp.com - user review - 02/29/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
It's the perfect little place to run to when you get your heart broken by some ungrateful, arrogant, asshole of a guy that you happen to have loved for years and then -- due to your partaking in a...
yelp.com - user review - 01/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Carbon is just one of those places that you are guaranteed to have fun. I used to only come on Tuesdays for the reggae and dancehall, but last night I came (Friday), and it was jumpin'! I just moved...
yelp.com - user review - 01/12/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
went here for the first time this Saturday. I had a blast!!! Can't recall the last time i left a place drenched in sweat from dancing so much.
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Dark, unpretentious, and the music was banging. The bouncer almost didn't let us in because they had "reached capacity". By the time I went to the bar to order a drink, there was already last call....
yelp.com - user review - 12/30/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Low-key, very accessible and easy going. Music can be hit or miss, and so can the crowd. Drinks are stiff and reasonably priced.
yelp.com - user review - 12/26/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A friend of mine lives near here, so I've spent many a night at the Carbon. I like it. First, it's FREE to get in and there's never a line. Parking has never been a problem.. I'm able to zoom in...
yelp.com - user review - 11/28/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Fun and low-key bar. Very mixed crowd and like others have mentioned, un-pretentious people. I wasn't reallly feeling the music that night, but I will return on another night to check out the music.
yelp.com - user review - 11/18/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
who'd have thought you'd find an underground club in Culver playing hip-hop and house without a line to get in? (thumbs up)...complete with no windows, no ventilation, and yes, you read it before,...
yelp.com - user review - 11/04/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
surreal scene. Good drinks, good DJ. Red walls, and a very cool underground type vibe. Friendly, UN-pretentious people.
yelp.com - user review - 10/07/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Most of the other reviews here have been spot on. It's a fun westside bar, mixed crowd, relaxed, and good energy. It's a bit of H'wood without the pain of H'wood.
yelp.com - user review - 08/25/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I thought Culver City was dead until coming across this place. No cover, people are friendly, and the dancefloor is tiny, but it goes off every night of the week. Expect to be bumping bodies with...
yelp.com - user review - 08/21/2007
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It's truly a workout once you get inside it's hot as 'HELL", but if you came to dance like your suppose to in a club your good. . No dress code so it's not the "Hollywood" spot, No fakes. Now getting there...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
YAY: - Last time I was there they played some really good shit, from some lesser known Mos Def tracks to Jeru.- They had bug sex playing on the TV screens. Fortunately I'm TOTALLY into bug pr0n (if...
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Tuesday nights is the place to be if you love Jamaican, Caribbean type feel... it never fails if you get there around 9:30-10:30 this place is a complete ghost town but soon 11:00 rolls around its...
yelp.com - user review - 07/25/2007
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This is a great chill place to go and enjoy the good selection of music. As soon as you enter you feel completely relaxed and ready to enjoy the night. It's a bit tight with space but it creates an intimate...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/23/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Carbon Haiku Eight or nine red stripes. Black & red, black & red.Dance your pants wet. I had one hell of a night here.
yelp.com - user review - 06/09/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This was a five star before people found out about it. You could often groove to tunes you probably haven't heard before... hip hop, rare groove, dancehall, old school. When you see a sign in front...
yelp.com - user review - 05/31/2007
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Worth a try for a little different feel than the usual Culver City hang-outs. Fairly strong drinks and a few hotties to talk too.
citysearch.com - user review - 04/27/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Have you ever locked yourself in a dark closet? Welcome to Carbon.It was pretty empty on the night I went. There were silent b&w French films playing, rather than the bug porn that other Yelpers...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I never notice the sign of carbon until a friend of mine invited us there. When i first hear the name, i was like " how come i have never notice it? i drove by there at least twice everyday."It's that...
yelp.com - user review - 03/28/2007
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I'll try to be as nice as possible....this place is definitely not what I expected. Went on a Friday night and the place was packed by 11pm. Problem was, the crowd was super getto. Definitely not a crowd...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/11/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
this chocolate city juke joint is small but people INSIST on dancing no matter how high the temperature or how crowded the room. my explanation is the mirrors! they play great old movies on tv...
yelp.com - user review - 03/06/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The music makes you want to shake your money maker... if you can find the space on the weekend. Place is teeny tiny... which means more bumping of the shoulders and bumping of other things IF you...
yelp.com - user review - 02/18/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I actually liked this place quite a bit. They played TONS of great hip-hop that was all over the map, not just that top 40 crap. The fun and energetic crowd was unpretentious and all seemed to be...
yelp.com - user review - 02/06/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Ok, I used to live near Culver City, and when we found Carbon, we were psyched. An actual cool bar that plays good music and has a decent, mixed crowd with free parking and no cover? But it's...
yelp.com - user review - 01/25/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I have the fondest memories of Carbon. Ahhhh! The hip-pity-hip-pity-hop-hop dance -- no don't stop dancin 'til you can't stop groovin'! Whew! My posy and I would get down with our bad selves on...
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2007
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Nice place to have a drink, hear good music and to be in a relaxed atmosphere, nice people and nice vibe. A great alternative to the Hollywood club scene
citysearch.com - user review - 11/16/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It looks like its a bugs life for me! So I have always loved Carbon, ever since it opened up. Yeah, its not the prettiest or hippest or cleanest bar in the world but it always reminds me of my...
yelp.com - user review - 11/07/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
We like the bugsThe bugs that go boomWe're Tigra and BunnyAnd we like the...Yeah, I don't know.So this bar is just as random as that intro. It's dark. It's red with black walls. Kinda reminds me of my...
yelp.com - user review - 11/06/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is a cool little dive bar in a part of town I never really thought of as having night life. I hate calling places dive bars but don't get me wrong about this, I mean it as a compliment. It's...
yelp.com - user review - 11/06/2006
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i havent been here in a while, but last time i went i had sooo much fun. I love the vibe of this underground feeling bar. the crowd was friendly and easygoing. i will definitly be back soon.
citysearch.com - user review - 10/27/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is longer than it is wide, and girth my friends is very important in drinking establishments. I felt kind of claustrophobic as it got rather crowded and hard to manuver around the bar, but...
yelp.com - user review - 09/11/2006
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I just discovered this hot spot a week ago. I'm not much into the club scene anymore, being that I'm now married. I just wanted a night out with my girlfriends to hang out and have some really good drinks....
citysearch.com - user review - 08/20/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is hot. It is free to get in and yet 5x better than most places I pay for. The crowd is quite diverse, the DJ is always on point. I love this place-I'm like Justin Timberlake on Nitrous...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2006
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Dive bar. Late night the crowd is really young. Early in the evening the place is empty.
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2006
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Carbon is a nice local lounge. Dress code is casual. Drinks are reasonably priced. DJ's spina mix of old school hip-hop and funk. Atmosphere is fun, there is a lounge area, bar and dance floor. Lots of fun, I...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/11/2005
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This is not a dance club. Which is why I love it. It is a Lounge Bar, very cozy and comfortable. I like that fact that it is open everyday (including Sundays) until 2am. A must, if you are not into the club...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/10/2005
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This is a cool little underground spot to hang out at. The DJs spin a good mix of old school hiphop, current chart toppers, and nice reggae grooves. It can get a little crowded but its all good though.
citysearch.com - user review - 09/21/2005
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Culvery City has long been overdue for a nice, laid-back club venue. Carbon, formely a restaurant called Sloppy Joe's, is a cool little lounge playing some fly hip-hop on Saturday nights. A nice vibe and chill...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/18/2005
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very chill, dark-lit lounge/bar that has 2 TVs playing old black-and-white movies w/ a red-lit screen for added hipness. the DJs spin a variety of music, depending on the night, one of the more enjoyable...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/13/2005
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Low-key dance spot with lots of reggae, hip-hop and sould spinning for kids to dance too. And dance they do, with the floor packed for most of the night. This bar is nothing flashy and the crowd is a diverse...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/16/2005
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First impression, arriving around 10:30 on a Saturday night: Cozy, nice atmosphere, but a little too chill. Less than an hour later, the DJ got going and the 'too chill' vibe disappeared as the club filled in...
citysearch.com - user review - 02/20/2005
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I love Carbon, just discovered this little hidden secret last weekend with some friends. It was the perfect place to get together with friends and have a casual night out. The DJ's spin really great old-school...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/26/2004
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Carbon was the spot! I normally drive by and keep driving since I wasn't sure what to expect. My boyfriend came down from the bay and had a few drinks for dinner and still were up for a few drinks. Since I...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/27/2004
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What can i say about this low-pro spot? Great music, cool people, strong drinks, nice atmosphere, no attitude. Been there a few times for birthday parties on Fridays and we had a blast. It's good to see DJ's...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/13/2003
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I have been going to Carbon for about a month now. I love it. A good mix of people in age, size, color and style, and everyone has a good time. The beer is cold, bartenders friendly, a great place to take a...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/08/2003
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Initially, us two girls loved the place. You walk in, get totally enveloped by the darkness and cozy glow of the coppery red lights. Music is fantastic. Bartender is cute (yeah you know who you are). But then...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/09/2003
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What a great little spot in a city that sooooooo needed a new bar!!!
citysearch.com - user review - 05/30/2003
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Carbon is one of those places you can go just to have a drink with some friends and other nights to check out the other gender. It has a great atmosphere and the staff is exceptional. Drinks are always potent...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/24/2003
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carbon is definately one of the cooler lesser known spots in LA! the vibe is amazing! everyone who shows up is cool and real...which is so hard to find. plus friday night's dj's are the best! if you haven't...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/11/2003
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Its just what this hood needed; a cool bar where people can chill over Phat beats. The owners are supercool and down to earth. The drinks are strong and it's open most nights. I'm gonna start hittin it more...
citysearch.com - user review - 02/10/2003
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Carbon - It's a new spot away from the Hollywood Scene. Not to big, but yet great bar service and music. It's only been open for a few months and already has a great vibe and crowd. The music on Saturday's...
citysearch.com - user review - 02/04/2003
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The same loungy feel of the Room in SM before it got all ghetto...I went there for a killer new years party. The owners and staff are totally cool, drinks are strong and reasonable. If you live in-between the...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/10/2003
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At first glance the bar feels trendier than it is. But settle in with a cocktail and you will not find the arrogance or posturing that accompany LA's trendier spots. A nice relaxed atmosphere with friendly bar...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/09/2003
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