Make sure to visit The Lampighter San Diego during the holiday for your favorite beer or cocktail and of course, San Diego’s Best Karaoke experience.
www.thelamplighterbar.com
817 W Washington St
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 298-3624
Union Tribune’s San Diego’s Best 2011 has dubbed The Lamplighter the city’s best Dive Bar, and as if that wasn’t cool enough, The Lamplighter was also named 2nd best Overall Bar http://www.signonsandiego.com/bestof/2011/bars-nightlife/dive-bar/
Now, When do they judge for the best Karaoke Bar so they can win that too?
City Beat San Diego awards The Lamplighter the #1 spot for
BEST KARAOKE BAR 2011
See the results here:
The Lamplighter San Diego
Yet again, The Lamplighter is named to the Top 7 Places To Sing Karaoke Around San Diego…
Read more about it here:
The Lamplighter San Diego
New to the Lamplighter beer family is Bear Republic’s Racer 5 IPA.
to add to our already kick ass Draft selection of:
Budweiser
Bud Light
Stella Artois
Widmir Hefeweizen
Negra Modelo
Shock Top
Stone IPA
Ballast Point’s Yellowtail Pale Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Guinness
and of course our bottled beers:
Budweiser
Bud Light
Coors Light
Miller Lite
Amstel Light
Heineken
Corona
Tecate
Victoria
Union Tribune’s San Diego’s Best 2011 has dubbed The Lamplighter the city’s best Dive Bar, and as if that wasn’t cool enough, The Lamplighter was also named 2nd best Overall Bar http://www.signonsandiego.com/bestof/2011/bars-nightlife/dive-bar/
Now, When do they judge for the best Karaoke Bar so they can win that too?
Aww Yess the Lamplighter “Where Your Dreams Can and Will Come True.” Here is one of the last bars in the city that is open from 6am-2am. The only thing that could make that better is to have strong/cheap drinks… Oh wait, they have that too. And later at night at around 9pm a crazy thing happens… karaoke… yup. The Japanese Word for Empty Orchestra, and the American word for- The idea that you are a professional singer usually inspired by liquid courage. Its Amazing how many songs they have and how many people get build up the courage to sing them.
One of my favorites in San Diego. The bartenders are all friendly. Show up more than once or twice and they’ll remember your name and most likely your drink too.
And now that renovations are finished, you can use the front door again. I’ve never been in when karaoke was going on, so I don’t know about that, but there is always a spot at the bar and plenty of seating.
-Matt K-
Great bar!! best Karaoke in town, happy people, entire bar gets into it, cheap drinks, and a good time to be had by all!!!! If you want a table, get there before 9pm, cuz after that it’s standing room only!
-Keli K-
VISIT THE LAMPLIGHTER SOON !!
817 West Washington Street
San Diego, CA 92103-1804
(619) 298-3624
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The Lamplighter Bar
817 West Washington Street, Mission Hills, 619-298-3624
The Lamplighter feels like it’s been around forever. Its heady booze stink and retro aesthetic attest to a tradition of transgression, which often seizes the unwitting patron like a phantom and invokes all manner of misdeed. I’ve fallen victim to a number of unreasonable urges at the Lamplighter, the least of which includes telling elaborate lies to strangers for no good reason and showing up for the 6 a.m. first call pretending to be an airline pilot about to fly out of Lindbergh Field.
But innocuous fibbery isn’t the only garbage that spews from patrons’ mouths at this Mission Hills landmark. The Lamplighter is known primarily (and perhaps exclusively) for its award-winning karaoke, which has earned the bar “Best Karaoke/Song Selection” in 2001 by Karaoke Star magazine; “Best Karaoke” by AOL City Guide, City’s Best 2005; and “Best Karaoke Bar” in 2003 by the San Diego Reader.
Karaoke runs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. daily, but show up early if you want to secure your spot; the bar is often standing-room-only after 9 p.m., and the sign-up sheet fills quickly. If you think you’ve been skipped, tipping the jockey is probably a good idea. The door fee alternates between free and $5, seemingly at random, though the cover is well worth the botched Ace of Bass throwbacks, Kid Rock quagmires, Sinatra conquests, and Grease glories.
The dive is nondescript, dark, inexpensive, and suffers from an ongoing identity crisis that invites equal parts frat dudes, downtown divas, thugs, nativist military kids from the Midwest, tourists, Hillcrestians, and good ole boys like ourselves. The guy out front on guitar is just as much of a staple of the Lamplighter as the surly bartenders and drunken ensemble dropouts onstage. Toss him a buck and ask for “Crazy Train.”
Of course, the best part of the bar is its proximity to MXN, where patrons congregate for burritos after closing time and, on a good night, erupt into song with the jukebox. I once witnessed the entire place in an enraptured rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” complete with burrito microphones and salsa-red grins.
Scaramouche. Scaramouche. Will you do the fandango?
