K-town’s underground tapas scene is like visiting the future – if, in the future, everyone speaks Korean and hangs out in hazy dive bars known for spicy late night kimchi and ass-flooring dragon juice.
Straight out from some steampunk chapter of Bladerunner’s Los Angeles, DGM (Korean for “Back Alley”) is the kind of dig where you can share a pitcher of beer, smoke a cigarette (yes, you can smoke there) and wait for your memory-dealer to show up with a mechanized stripper with a fake snake. Or not.
You won’t find the painfully hip or rich clanking glasses in this charming speak-easy with scribble etched wooden walls and red-faced Korean’s surprised that you’ve stumbled upon one of L.A.’s best nocturnal secrets.
Don’t expect watered-down Americanized K-cuisine here. Don’t make the mistake of asking for a menu in English either. They don’t have them. And if that bothers you, travel to the future somewhere else.
DwitGolMok (DGM)
3101 W 8th St
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Neighborhood: Koreatown
(213) 388-0067
