I’m always on the hunt for a decent happy hour on the Westside since I can never seem to make it on time for the ones in Hollywood and downtown. So I was giddy to find that Culver City has a wealth of happy hours, well, I found three. The only thing is they all…
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Pond Skipping on the Cheap: $550 Airfare + 2 Free Hotel Nights in London
Wanna go somewhere that actually has a winter? This just in from the TravelZoo newsdesk: British Airways has slashed its nonstop fares from LAX to London to $203 each way. But not only that, you’ll also get two free hotel nights at a 3- or 4-star London hotel.* This sale is for travel between January…
Obama Celebrations in L.A.: Huzzah! Drink and Be Merry!
Feel like celebrating today? Sure, the inaugural balls are in DC and damn, that cool inauguration party at the Mayan is sold out but fortunately there are still some places you can go to be with other revelers as well as specialty Obama-inspired cocktails you can toast with. The Abbey in WeHo will be going…
944 Tea Time Premiere Party at Royal/T
Blah, too sick to think of anything to blog about so here are just some pics I took of the 944 Tea Time event that Sarah of The Delicious Life, Shelley of fauxLAhipster and I went to on Tuesday. It was a premiere party for the Drew Barrymore-produced dating reality show Tough Love. The event…
This Weekend: Dim Sum Bike Ride, Pirate Shanty Music, $1 Vintage Sale
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Demetri Martin Maaannn, I was looking forward to this long holiday weekend but sickness has struck me down. Anyway, hope you guys have fun. Thursday, January 15 Spitz Little Tokyo Grand Opening Kebab restaurant, Spitz, is kicking off its newness to downtown with $2 beers and house-recipe sangria and half off…
Primitivo Wine Bistro: Sangria Sundays
The restaurants on Abbot Kinney in Venice aren’t my usual hang since they’re too pricey for my taste, especially for just casual dining. But after watching the sunset on Venice beach with my roomies, we decided to grab some dinner nearby. Passing by Joe’s Restaurant and Lilly’s, the displayed prices turned us off. Nah! But…
Cocktail Review: Casa Cocina y Cantina's Cocktails
New downtown Mexican restaurant Casa Cocina y Cantina had a press release boasting a menu “unlike any other Mexican restaurant menu in Los Angeles.” But I couldn’t help but wonder if that held true to its cocktail list as well. So my friends (Johnny the Fish and Tara) and I stopped by on a very…
Kitchen Nightmares Wants Bad L.A. Restaurants
I usually don’t do this sort of thing on this blog but I just started watching Kitchen Nightmares, well the BBC version, recently and now it’s one of my many guilty pleasures. So I thought it was really cool that they asked me and other bloggers for nominations for bad restaurants to help out in…
My Top 10 Favorite Cocktails From 2008
I had a lot of cocktails last year but only a few were memorable. Here are my top 10 cocktail faves from my bar adventures in 2008. They’re listed from most recent to so not recent. 1) No Named Bourbon Cocktail at Riva: This baby was off the menu and created by the bartender, a bourbon…
Caroline on Crack 2009 Calendar
I originally made this calendar for my cubicle because I couldn’t find anything with pictures that I liked enough to stare at for a whole month. So I compiled my favorite shots of my blogging adventures last year. Nope, not pictures of family, friends and other people you don’t know or care about. And no…
