The Ruby Fruit is a strip mall restaurant and wine bar serving the sapphically inclined, located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Opened by Mara Herbkersman and Emily Bielagus in February 2023, The Ruby Fruit welcomes everyone and serves as a safe space for not only lesbians, but non-binary, gender-nonconforming and trans people. The Ruby Fruit is the first permanent lesbian bar to have opened in LA since 2017. The wine bar’s name is an homage to Rita Mae Brown’s The Rubyfruit Jungle.
Come in for a glass of natural wine, mingle with some cuties and nibble on some snacks from our womxn-run kitchen. Open for lunch and dinner!
BE GAY AND STAY!
Press
The Infatuation ‘The 21 Best Restaurants In Silver Lake’
Eater ‘LA’s Queer Bar Renaissance Has Arrived’
Resy ‘The Ruby Fruit is Revitalizing America’s Lesbian Bar Scene’
The New York Times ‘The Lesbian Bar Isn’t Dead. It’s Pouring Orange Wine in Los Angeles.’
Coveteur ‘A Sapphic Wine Bar Just Opened in Silver Lake’
Marketplace ‘Inside Los Angeles’ first lesbian bar in years’
The Long Road To Lesbos ‘The Ruby Fruit’
Resy ‘Guide to the Women-Owned Restaurants of Los Angeles’
LA Times ‘The best places to eat and drink in L.A. right now’
Eater LA ‘Silver Lake’s New Ruby Fruit is LA’s First Lesbian-Owned Queer Bar in Years’
LA Times Today ‘Eszett is closing, but in its place opens Silver Lake’s new lesbian wine bar’
Mad Dyke Mag ‘L.A. Is Getting Its First Lesbian Bar in More Than Half a Decade’