Temple Bar   

A red wall with looming eyes decorates the exterior of what many consider to be one of Santa Monica's best live performance stages. The Temple Bar offers nightly entertainment throughout the week, including funk, hip-hop, jazz, reggae and salsa dancing. The dimly lit setting offers Asian flairs like Chinese lanterns, leafed Buddha statues and an intimate billiards area that says Zen while providing a cool, hip and entertaining location for nightlife. The facility offers a stage that lures musical names that live up to the caliber of such weekly events as Rhythm Room -- a Sunday night funk and groove event that packs in a full house every week. The live entertainment manages to transcend the usual garage and beach sounds that most area clubs offer and instead diversifies the stage with acts of ethnic, spiritual and musical diversity. Euro- Asian nightlife in the heart of Santa Monica, Temple Bar mixes live performance, chic ambiance and beach singles for a blue blood musical experience in the most red of settings.