The Hermosillo

The HermosilloThe Hermosillo
The HermosilloThe Hermosillo
Bar, Eatery, Beer-to-go

5125 York Blvd
Los Angeles, California, 90042-1715
United States

(323) 739-6459 | map
thehermosillo.com

The Hermosillo is a neighborhood beer and wine bar in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Previously a night club with an infamous reputation, The Hermosillo now serves craft beer, 30 wines by the glass, and creative bar food. Home to the original Highland Park Brewery location (production only), too.

See the HPB Chinatown listing for their beers.
PLACE STATS
Average:
4.35
Reviews:
20
Ratings:
77
pDev:
10.11%
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Rated by Kramerwtmf from California

4.11/5  rDev -5.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4

Mar 12, 2015
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Reviewed by mynie from Maryland

4.64/5  rDev +6.7%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
Just around the block from my friend's house, in a very nice neighborhood filled with restaurants and record shops. The exterior is rather unassuming, but inside the place is surprisingly huge and unpretentious. The facade is bricky and tavern-like, the bar is large and well-staffed, there's shuffleboard and one of those games where you swing a cable to try to catch a ring onto a hook, and they were playing the Galaxie 500 Pandora station at a reasonable volume. Basically, it was my kind of place.

The prices were good for the west coast. So was the food. The beer tended toward contemporary styles, with lots of fanciful sours and fruit-forward IPAs, but there was still a good amount of stylistic diversity and everything I tried was very good.

We wound up spending like 4 hours here without meaning to, we were having so much fun. Certainly, my impression was somewhat influenced by the joy of hanging out with old friends, but we also went to several other places and none were as enjoyable as Hermosillo. The staff were super cool, the locals were friendly, and the location was great. The place is a must-visit if you're in the area.
Aug 04, 2018
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Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon

4.33/5  rDev -0.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25
Visited here during their sour beer tap takeover during LA craft beer week. Fairly standard dive bar vibe, especially in the neighborhood it's in. Cool place, with nice servers who are responsive and quick about getting things done. Selection is nice; they had several HPB standards along with a nice selection of CA sours including West Ashley. They also had some Cantillon for on-site drinking as well. Food was good as well, pretty exceptional burger actually. Overall, a nice spot which I enjoyed very much. It was a bit of a pain to get to this place off I-210, though. I will have to visit the Chinatown location next time I am in LA.
Jun 27, 2018
 
Rated: 4.36 by Danny_Riordan from California

Jun 11, 2018
 
Rated: 4.29 by chrisjws from California

Jun 04, 2018
 
Rated: 4.3 by BennyProfane from California

Mar 23, 2018
 
Rated: 5 by Giulia from California

Nov 23, 2017
 
Rated: 5 by BeachwoodHops from California

Nov 20, 2017
 
Rated: 4.51 by SusanP from California

Nov 16, 2017
 
Rated: 3.97 by jtk21351 from California

Oct 21, 2017
 
Rated: 4.33 by wilymobastardo from California

Sep 30, 2017
 
Rated: 4.56 by Ghostman25 from California

Sep 21, 2017
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Reviewed by Frosty11161 from California

4.76/5  rDev +9.4%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
Great place to drink decent beer, eat spectacular food, and people watch, be it inside the bar or by the windows.

Don't forget to tour the brewery in the back! I always play that joke on friends their first time there. Barrel warehouse is the best.
Jun 05, 2017
 
Rated: 4.52 by hoyagus from California

Apr 01, 2017
 
Rated: 4.15 by crob3888 from California

Mar 06, 2017
 
Rated: 4.74 by shoegaze from California

Mar 03, 2017
 
Rated: 4.08 by BeerForMuscle from New Jersey

Jan 27, 2017
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Reviewed by Sev from California

5/5  rDev +14.9%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
this place is top notch. might be the most well rounded brewery in Los Angeles. They always have plenty of styles to offer and their west coast IPAs are the best I've ever had. The service is great, the location is great - if you haven't been yet, do it. do it now.
Jan 26, 2017
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Reviewed by JayORear from Pennsylvania

4.27/5  rDev -1.8%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4
This is a frustrating review to write, in that I so much want it to be even better than my rating, which is pretty damn high. The vibe is perfect: a historic East side L.A. gentlemen's club, with lots of room for sitting and standing, and beer and food copiously flowing. There's a bartender who started calling me by name after my very first time going, and always remembers, no matter how long it's been since my last visit. And the (HPB) beer has steadily improved since they started brewing, to the point where it's probably in the top two L.A. proper breweries. My dings against quality and selection might seem minor, but they're important enough that I end up not going quite as much as I might otherwise.

First, taplist-wise, there's sometimes a strange imbalance between styles; I've been more than once when the majority of beers were saisons/wilds, which I appreciate, but which I rarely eat with pub food. Other times, there are barely any hoppy beers, or some preponderance of beers that I'm really not that into. I think they could learn from Cellarmaker in SF, a brewer that really keeps a balanced, intriguing list at all times. Second, the food: much of it is quite good, but there seems to be a conscious effect to avoid anything resembling "traditional" pub food, and when it comes close, it's either weirdly oversized or undersized. The grilled cheese sandwich could feed a family of four, and the papas nachos (which are awesome) are only served as a "snack size," when they could easily be a bigger entree. Again, I'm comparing to another brewery with food, Tired Hands, which has this aspect nailed. On the one hand, they have the "house-cured charcuterie plates," but they've also got a simple goddamn burger with fries. (BTW, TH also nails the balanced taplist thing.)

If it seems like I'm being hard on the Hermosilio, it's only because they're *this* close to being truly, not almost, great. Balance that taplist and offer more basic grub on the food menu, and I'll be there once a week, instead of once a month.
Jan 06, 2017
 
Rated: 4.55 by Keananmichael5 from California

Dec 30, 2016
 
Rated: 4.29 by duceswild from Heard & McDonald Islands

Nov 20, 2016
 
Rated: 4.15 by AleHunter805 from California

Nov 20, 2016
 
Rated: 4.32 by Kurmaraja from California

Sep 23, 2016
 
Rated: 4.33 by kmanjohnson from California

Jul 01, 2016
 
Rated: 4.38 by BoredRocks275 from California

May 19, 2016
 
Rated: 4.33 by leodarko from California

May 08, 2016
 
Rated: 4.36 by Mista_Carta from California

Apr 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4.43 by bouncepass from California

Mar 24, 2016
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Reviewed by Phil-Fresh from California

4.3/5  rDev -1.1%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5
Pretty awesome little brewery, while still pretty new - this brewery turns out some interesting, delicious beers. Inside they have about 10 in-house beers and two outside offerings. The beers are projected onto a wall using one of those old projectors they used to teach math with the dry erase markers. On a sunny day, it's hard to discern the projection. The place can get busy - but the service is chill and attentive.
Mar 01, 2016
 
Rated: 3.89 by Frobert_Reynolds from California

Feb 20, 2016
 
Rated: 4.38 by sittinggc from California

Feb 10, 2016
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Reviewed by Goldstar81 from California

4.29/5  rDev -1.4%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
This is the best brewery in LA county. Yes you heard me. It's located a medium sized neighborhood bar that isn't the most easily accessible place as its not really near any freeways or metro stops and the parking lot sucks but while it lacks in accessibility it makes up for in vibe as well as quality and variety of styles with their own unique personalities.

Bob Kunz brews some of the best IPAs and sour saisons/Berliner Weiss style beers in all of Southern California. Think a ton of flavor, aroma and drink-ability wrapped up in a neat little 4%-8% ABV package. The DIPAs and stouts are 8%-12% but you get the idea. Each batch he brews is better or at least as good as the previous batch which not all brewers are capable of. Consistency is the name of the HPB game which I believe is vastly under-appreciated. While the space he utilizes is small, he is working some real magic back there. Not to mention he's the nicest most approachable guy you'll meet.

If you're visiting from out of town and want to sample the future of the LA beer scene run, don't walk to HPB. Also, check of the fridge for any bottle offerings for onsite consumption. There's also usually three options for growlers. You won't be disappointed!
Dec 29, 2015
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Reviewed by mookihouse from California

3.56/5  rDev -18.2%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3.5
21+ only. Easy to find if you look for the sign as in the profile photo. It has its own tiny parking lot on the side of the building. Got there 4:30pm on a Sunday and the place is full.
Dec 28, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by fthegiants from California

Nov 12, 2015
 
Rated: 2.91 by NDogg44 from Texas

Nov 11, 2015
 
Rated: 4.4 by sheenisgod from California

Sep 07, 2015
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Reviewed by Beer_Line from California

5/5  rDev +14.9%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
This place was a good surprise. A buddy of mine lives in Glendale, so I thought I would poke in. I am glad I did. The beers I had from them were top notch. Stay tuned, I am guessing these guys will blow up
Sep 05, 2015
 
Rated: 4.14 by chefbrady from California

Sep 03, 2015
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Reviewed by mrcraft from California

4.43/5  rDev +1.8%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.25
This is a cool brewery/bar/brewpub in the outskirts of Downtown LA in the Highland Park neighborhood.

Once inside you see seats along the windows, large bar area thanks to its unique shape and tables and seats around. Since this is a brewery inside of a bar, they have mostly HPB beers on tap with some guest beers. That's quite okay, since HPB beers are solid. Tonight I came here for the first time after work, and just had one glass. But, it was a very nice glass of Raised Eyebrows, a fruit infused sour. It was one of the best beers I had in a while.

The people around me were having food that looked pretty good too, so I'll try some food and more HPB beers next time. Nice visit.
Aug 31, 2015
 
Rated: 4.04 by dddddddd from Washington

Jul 29, 2015
The Hermosillo in Los Angeles, CA
Place rating: 4.35 out of 5 with 77 ratings