Yay! Spring equinox is here! How will you celebrate? Balance eggs on end? $1 dishes at Luckyfish? A Kogi BBQ cooking demonstration? Pagan dance in the forest? Thursday, March 19 $1 Dishes and Drinks at Luckyfish’s 1-Year Anniversary In celebration of its one-year anniversary, Luckyfish, conveyor belt sushi restaurant, is charging one dollar for every…
Category Archives: Cocktails
X Bar's Astrology Cocktails: Hey, Baby, What's Your Sign?
What better way for a Los Angeles bar to celebrate our city than with astrology cocktails? Yup, X Bar in Century City, has perhaps the funnest theme cocktail menu idea I’ve seen in a long time. And seriously, couldn’t we all use some fun nowadays? X Bar created 12 cocktails ($12 each) to represent the…
Cocktail Marathon: Food Marathon and Caroline on Crack Blog Mashup
Blogger Food Marathon had an excellent idea for a blog post series: Do a mash-up of his blog and another food blog, meaning go on a food marathon of, I guess, that featured blogger’s favorite places and write about it. In any case, since my deal is cocktails naturally we’d do a bar marathon of…
New Happy Hour: Copa d'Oro's $5 Classic Cocktails
Yay! My new favorite bar, Copa d’Oro in Santa Monica, has kicked off its new happy hour featuring a “happy depression menu.” So now you can enjoy some of their fabulous market-fresh cocktails for only $5! And we’re not talking the sort of drinks you usually find at happy hours around the city. No apple…
Barbarella Bar: Drinking Like It's 1999
I heard all this hype about Silver Lake’s new bar Barbarella Bar. Who didn’t write about it? Well, besides me? So when I got an invite to “experience Silver Lake’s newest neighborhood hang,” I naturally rsvp’d. Plus the promise of free specialty martinis, 24 beers on tap and food helped a bit. When I got…
Rivera: Hot Downtown Bar, Caliente Cocktails
When some of the best bartenders in Los Angeles tell you to check out a certain bar, it’s best that you listen. That’s why I had to stop by Rivera, located near L.A. Live downtown, with some blogger friends in tow. Actually we were there for a hosted dinner to try the restaurant’s food but,…
My dineLA Dinners: Taste on Melrose
Taste on Melrose — $34 dinner It’s no secret that I love Taste on Melrose. I’ve celebrated birthdays here, my own anniversary and just the simple pleasure of dinner. Yummy comfort food, thoroughly satisfying. So this year, I arranged to celebrate my brother’s birthday here. It was a small dinner for four — me, my…
New Bar Night: Mod Mondays at Bar Lubitsch
Groovy! My fave bartender Damian Windsor (The Edison, Gordon Ramsay at the London, Copa d’Oro) will now be manning the back bar of one of my fave L.A. bars, Bar Lubitsch. Yes, starting Monday the 23rd, you can enjoy Damian’s cocktail wizardry during BL’s new bar night, Mod Mondays. Owner Jared Meisler hopes to make…
Dear Caroline on Crack: Where To Take Visiting Boozers?
An email exchange between me and my co-worker who was looking for a place to take some cocktail-loving out-of-towners. From: Co-worker Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:51 PM To: Caroline on Crack Subject: RE: Where to go…. Yo, That girl’s sister and brother-in-law are coming out for the long weekend. They’re big on bars. Good,…
My dineLA Dinners: Gordon Ramsay at The London
As you well know by now, dineLA’s restaurant week has been extended for over 100 Los Angeles restaurants. The annual event was soo successful (and they really want to entice you to get out there and, uh, stimulate the economy) that many eateries are featuring the prix fixe menu through the end of February. Yay!…
