L.A. Times Concierge: What restaurants or bars are good for a big birthday party on a budget?

Where tin I big a large day enactment connected a edifice patio oregon rent retired a barroom during the day? That’s not outrageously expensive? — Kristen Silva

Here’s what we suggest:

First and foremost, I respect — and profoundly subordinate to — your tendency to observe your day connected a budget. It’s pugnacious close now. The bully news, though, is that L.A. is brimming with delicious restaurants and aesthetic bars that spell casual connected the pockets — some for you and your guests. And immoderate adjacent let you to bring your ain day cake.

For a laid-back spot wherever you and your friends tin beryllium astatine picnic tables and bask juicy pastrami sandwiches, loaded French fries and refreshing cocktails, cheque retired Johnny’s successful West Adams. Senior nutrient exertion Danielle Dorsey recommends the spot successful a usher to West Adams, calling the umbrella-dotted parking batch patio “the cleanable al fresco setting.” Because Johnny’s has a walk-up work counter, its casual for your guests to travel and spell arsenic they please. Plus, you won’t person to interest astir the headache of trying to divided the measure astatine the extremity of the night. Reservations are lone indispensable if you’re looking to rent retired the space, but determination is simply a $35 barroom fee.

If you don’t caput being indoors, my workfellow Deborah Vankin suggests Far Bar successful Little Tokyo, wherever she celebrated her day connected the mezzanine with astir 50 friends. “It was a cozy, but inactive roomy abstraction that felt festive and provided the champion radical watching below,” she says. “The terms was beyond tenable and, afterwards, a radical of america walked down the thoroughfare for dessert and karaoke.” If you’re unfastened to hosting your enactment connected a slower nighttime (not Friday oregon Saturday), a manager told maine you tin debar rental fees. (FYI: There’s besides a constrictive outdoor seating country here, but Vankin says it’s not large for parties.)

Music lovers volition admit Zizou, a vibey French-Moroccan edifice nestled successful Lincoln Heights. Owned by 2 lifelong friends from France, Zizou features a stunning vintage dependable system, wherever DJs tin beryllium recovered spinning jazz, French hip-hop, South African rhythms and different planetary sounds connected the weekends. My person Tori Johnson hosted her day enactment connected the starlit patio earlier this year. “We were capable to invitation friends post-dinner to travel and person vino with america until the edifice closed,” she tells me. “It felt intimate and conscionable what I was looking for for my 31st birthday.” For parties of 8 oregon more, there’s a $75 minimum per idiosyncratic for seated dining, but nary minimum if you’re readying to conscionable chill astatine the barroom oregon adjacent the dependable system. You tin either bring your ain barroom astatine nary further outgo oregon bid Zizou’s house-made French pome tart for dessert. And don’t worry, the servers won’t look astatine you with disdain if you inquire for abstracted checks — astatine slightest from my experience.

Another worthy enactment is Everson Royce, which lawman nutrient exertion Betty Hallock calls “one of the champion bars successful the metropolis (with large food),” and I can’t hold more. This spot is fashionable due to the fact that of its blessed hr and its breezy outdoor patio. “It’s similar being successful a friend’s backyard, with picnic tables, drawstring lights and a vine-wrapped tree, but you’re successful the mediate of downtown,” Hallock reports successful a usher to the astir picturesque edifice patios successful L.A. An Everson Royce staffer told maine that you tin publication a mean preservation for up to 100 radical — yes, you work that correctly — and that the edifice doesn’t complaint other fees oregon necessitate immoderate deposits. Staff volition adjacent divided the checks for each of your guests.

In the temper for dancing? Start your nighttime with focaccia-style cookware pizzas astatine De La Nonna, past caput adjacent doorway to the Let’s Go! Disco & Cocktail Club. I DJed a wedding present past twelvemonth and it was a seamless transition, sweating retired the delectable pizza astatine the Italian-inspired nightclub wherever 1970s disco hits (and related genres) are the soundscape. Reservations are highly recommended. For 20 guests, De La Nonna requires its prix fixe paper with optional portion packages, but 30 oregon much guests are considered a “partial buyout,” truthful some are required. There’s besides a country fee. If you’re inactive successful the temper for partying erstwhile the cocktail den closes astatine 1 a.m., past locomotion crossed the thoroughfare to EightyTwo, an arcade barroom with dozens of pinball machines and classical video games. (Note: De La Nonna charges a $20 barroom fee.)

If these spots don’t fulfill your needs, immoderate of my nutrient colleagues besides suggested Le Great Outdoor successful Santa Monica, Mr. T successful Hollywood, Good Neighbor Bar successful Altadena and Benny Boy Brewing successful Lincoln Heights — each of which person a patio.

As you tin see, determination are loads of options depending connected what benignant of food, vibe and portion of L.A. you prefer. Wherever you extremity up, I anticipation you person a fantastic clip and, astir importantly, that you person a large day and twelvemonth ahead.