The Normandie Club is in the Hotel Normandie in Koreatown, a building that dates to 1926, and it opened in 2015 as a cocktail bar that quietly became one of the neighborhood's best. The room is dark with amber lighting and smooth jazz floating underneath the bar noise, and it is small enough to fill up on weekends without ever feeling like a crowd in the negative sense. The bar's self-described obsession is the martini, and a section of the menu titled It's Sort of Like A groups cocktails by their resemblance to classics rather than by spirit. Open nightly from 6pm to 2am, it is the kind of place that regularly appears on best-bars-in-LA lists without needing to advertise.