Creme brulee, caramel, espresso, pralines, prunes. Before I attended the Whisky Live event this week, my default descriptors for good whisky were “smooooth” and “yummy!” But after getting the chance to talk to the reps from such distilleries like Bushmills, Four Roses, Glenlivet, Johnnie Walker and Macallan, to name but a few, and try a…
Category Archives: Cocktails
Booze News: Checkers' $4 Classic Cocktails and Essex Public House's New Beer Cocktails
Uh oh, I think Checkers Downtown got my beloved Copa d’Oro beat in the cheap classic cocktail arena! This Thursday from 4 to 8pm, the newly redesigned Hilton Hotel bar will be featuring $4 classic cocktails from Woodford Reserve. Yum! Old Fashioned: Woodford Reserve Bourbon, sugar cube, dashes of Angostura Bitters, club soda Beehive Cocktail:…
Kahlua Dinner at Loteria Grill Hollywood
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited, along with “other tastemakers” like Natalie of the Liquid Muse, to partake of a dinner where Kahlua coffee liqueur was incorporated into all four courses at Hollywood’s Loteria Grill. This wasn’t a meal where cocktails were paired with dishes, which I also love by the way….
This Weekend: Oktoberfests Galore, Free Coffee Drinks, Sasquatch Kills
Sushi, Maya of ShopEatSleep.com‘s pug, throwing a tantrum because Maya put her in this cheerleader costume. Just had to post it. Besides the exciting fact that LA Beer Week kicks off today continuing on through the 24th, there are a ton of other things going on this weekend. Oy! Thursday, October 15 TINI Grand Opening…
I Heart NY Drinking: Death & Company and PDT
Benton’s Old-Fashioned at PDT Forget about dietary do-gooding and sinless sipping; when I’m in New York, hell’s yeah all bets are off. Especially when it involves deep-fried bacon-wrapped hot dog slathered with kimchi and cocktails made by famed mixologists in New York City. With Lindsey and Dave of Live the Lush Life as my guides,…
Boozing Writers' Parties: The Imbiber and the Bubbly Girl
Photo by Bert Stern The Imbiber’s Ultimate Playmate Fantasy Wine Tour at Pourtal Playboy‘s bad boy boozing columnist and author of the must-read adventures-in-drinking memoir Nobody Likes a Quitter, Dan Dunn is kicking off what is most definitely the sexiest wine tasting tour in the history of the world. Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar in Santa…
This Weekend: Arm Wrestling, dineLA Kicks Off, Moonlit Run
What an exciting weekend! I don’t know about you but I’ll be hitting up the American Wine & Food Festival at the Universal City Backlot on Saturday and then it’s Thom Yorke at the Orpheum on Sunday. Woo! OK, enough bragging. Here are other goings-on you can enjoy during this first weekend of October. Is…
The Edison's Radio Room: Speakeasy Night Goes Big
I usually don’t like to review the same place twice but the Edison‘s monthly Radio Room night has changed so much from its humble speakeasy beginnings in the back room of this downtown underground bar that it was just asking for a follow-up. Yes, now our little baby bar night’s all growns up as it’s…
The Wine House's 2nd Annual BourBon Q
Droool! The Wine House in West L.A. is fixin’ to kick off its 2nd Annual BourBon Q event where guests will chow down on a mess of barbecue cooked up by Upstairs2 executive chef Todd Barrie. Best part is that you get to wash down the delectable, spicy meats with samplings of American whiskies as…
The Edison's Radio Room Featuring the No. 1 Bartender in the World
This month’s Radio Room at the Edison is just around the corner and check out what goodies you have to look forward to by guest mixologists, Jeffrey Morganthaler of Portland, Oregon, and John Lermayer, Travel and Leisure Magazine‘s No. 1 Bartender in the World. Cocktail Menu of the Evening ($14 each): Allspice Sour: Hudson River…
