Max Steiners - CLOSED

2012 | Best Dive Bar Makeover

Every time a preplanned, cross-branded, faux dive bar opens up, a city loses a little part of its soul. It's also troubling when real dives (those beautifully bummy booze boxes) try to go upscale, edging out the genuine regulars in favor of hipper-snappers. So we worried when we heard that Max Steiners -- a venerable, 50-year-old Long Beach dive that opens at 6 a.m. and is one of the delightfully filthiest we've seen -- recently rebranded itself as Candi Bar. But instead of going... More »