Boo to chilly weather but yay to LA weekend events! Thursday, October 11 PKNY’s Tiki Takeover at Sadie Tonight, Giuseppe Gonzalez of PKNY (Painkiller New York) joins other talented bartender with Italian first name and Spanish last name, Giovanni Martinez, at Sadie for a night of reimagined tiki cocktails and shenanigans. “There are no rules….
Sotto Restaurant in West L.A. debuts a brand-new fall cocktail menu tonight. From 8pm to 11pm, the new cocktails will be specially priced at $9; regularly they’re $12. Unlike the menus in the past this one is a more focused, “back to Italian” list and a complete rehaul, meaning they got rid of all the…
The Satellite, formerly (and sort of still) Club Spaceland, in Silver Lake has started up a new cocktail program in its “upstairs” bar, aka “bar a few steps up from its main room.” The new drink night, “Mixology Mondays,” by bartender Amy Rieckelman enlists the help of Drago Centro’s Jaymee Mandeville to create a new…
OK, I’m just going to take the liberty of changing the “first annual” events to “inaugural.” Anyhoo, can you believe it’s already October? OCTOBER! Well, here are some LA weekend events to get your month started. Thursday, October 4 Chef Bruce Kalman’s New Menu Debuts at The Churchill Things keep looking up and up at…
My new stand-alone iPhone app, Drink Here: LA’s Best Craft Beer and Cocktail Bars, launches tonight at 12:01 a.m.! It’s now separate from the original Know What guide, which had you paying $2.99 on top of the $1.99 for my app. Now you can get me on your iPhone for just the $1.99! So what’s…
“Meh, they’re weak like restaurant cocktails,” I shrugged. “Well, come on now. Let’s be fair, they ARE restaurant cocktails,” replied Spago Beverly Hills Wine Director/Master Sommelier Chris Miller. Apparently my drinking companion, Aaron of Savory Hunter, and I had inadvertently ordered the “girl drinks” of the redone Spago’s brand-new cocktail menu. But with both restaurant-friendly…
The sun was downright oppressive shining down on the western side of the Pub at Golden Road Brewing in Glendale where Food GPS’s 4th Annual LA Beer Float Showdown took place. So would-be beer float judges took their beer floats into the pub for further examination and to escape that dang blasted sun. Of course…
Believe it or not the scruffy guy above, Nick Vitulli of the brand-new The Famous bar in Glendale, used to work at the high-falutin £10 at the Montage in Beverly Hills. (Here he is without the beard and hat.) Not only did he tend the bar but he created the cocktails that still exist on…
OK, apart from the awesomeness that is 4th Annual LA Beer Week, there ARE other LA weekend events going on. Saturday, September 22 Cinespia Screens The Exorcist at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Online tickets for what is the scariest movie EVER are already sold out but you can still walk up and buy tickets at the…
The 4th Annual LA Beer Week kicks off tomorrow, running through September 30, and it’s filled with so much awesomeness — a flurry of bar crawls, tap takeovers, beer-paired dinners, special beer releases — that it can be a bit overwhelming. So, where to begin? Well, for this year, the organizers have decided to have…
