Renowned London bartender Salvatore Calabrese (Salvatore’s at The Playboy) and LA’s own top bartender Joseph Brooke will be schooling cocktail geeks in the fine art of cocktail making. On June 25 and 26, Salvatore is coming in from London to join Joe back at Mixology 101 in the Farmers Market where they will teach “Journey…
This weekend, do it for the kids. Friday, June 8 Buy Tickets to Art Beyond the Glass at Sadie Restaurant for June 17 If you’re going to ONE LA cocktail event this year, Art Beyond the Glass is it. Forget the rest, this one features the best. OK, that was a little corny but it’s…
It’s just been announced today that 1933 Group — the bar group behind the Thirsty Crow, Bigfoot West and Oldfield’s — is getting set to debut yet ANOTHER bar. That’s now seven bars for those keeping score at home. The Southern-inspired Sassafras bar will be opening its doors this July on Vine Street, south of…
Downtown’s Umamicatessen just launched a new happy hour. From Monday through Friday 4 to 7pm you can get select Umami sliders and downtown dogs on the cheap as well as selections from Pigg and The Cure. Check out these deals: Umami Burger: Short rib slider and truffle slider $5, downtown dog $6 Pigg: 1-ounce servings…
New Formosa Cafe bar manager Kate Grutman, formerly of Sotto, wants the regulars at the Hollywood landmark to know that she’s not the devil. She took over the cocktail program there much to the chagrin of the folks who have been patronizing the bar for years, some even decades. “If I even see a jigger,…
Legends never age. So when I tell you that today is Marilyn Monroe’s 86th birthday, it would be difficult to imagine her blowing out that many candles. As it is, she’s forever frozen in our memories as singing “Happy Birthday” to Kennedy, pushing down an out-of-control white skirt and dancing around with diamonds. In celebration…
Cocktailing has just gotten even fancier. Yup, dust off your monocle, it’s now right up there with schmancy wine drinking. I kid, but in what appears to be a really slow-growing trend in L.A., Melisse restaurant in Santa Monica can now count itself among the ranks of Michelin two-star restaurants in the city with an…
Who hasn’t been looking forward to this Memorial Day weekend? If you are staying in town, here are a bunch of fun things you can do, including barbecue parties and an Audrey Hepburn movie at the cemetery. Saturday, May 26 Rooftop Weekend Barbecue Kicks Off at The Peninsula Kick off your weekend with a gorgeous…
Usually I save events for my weekend roundups but these cocktail events take place this week, starting tonight! Tonight 5-7pm: Boozeday Tuesday Kicks Off at Ford’s Filling Station Mixologist Joel Black (Comme Ca, Three Clubs) has taken over the cocktail program at this Culver City gastropub and is bringing the booze. Every week, starting tonight,…
Proprietors LLC‘s Alex Day and David Kaplan (along with Death & Co. owner David Blatt) have done it again with their new Demi Monde cocktail bar, a unique venue that will not only showcase their well-crafted cocktails and fabulous sense of style and bar ingenuity but this coming summer it’ll also be the new brick-and-mortar…
