My favorite SoCal brewery, The Bruery, is teaming up with chef Eric Greenspan of The Foundry on Melrose for Dionicess VIII, an ambitious beer-paired lunch and beer-paired dinner for the ultimate beer fan/food enthusiast. Guests have the choice of either doing the 4-course lunch ($45) at 1pm, the 6-course dinner ($85) at 6pm or going…
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This Weekend: Absinthe Tasting, German Beer Fest, Fred Segal Sale
This weekend is going to be awesome: 70+ degrees and sunny. Gotta love winter in L.A. Friday, January 14 Fred Segal Sale Starts Hopefully you’ve had enough time to financially recover from the holidays to take advantage of the Fred Segal sale where everything from men’s and women’s designer clothes, jewelry, shoes, accessories and even…
Mas Malo Restaurant: Mas Mucho More Tequila Downtown
The new offshoot of Silver Lake’s Malo Restaurant, Mas Malo, is mas in every way — space (9,700 square feet), menu, style and liquor. The new restaurant, which opened last Friday, shares the same downtown Los Angeles building as a certain whiskey bar and the same entrance. Booze fans rejoice, especially since Mas Malo boasts…
The Bruery's Reserve Society Initiation Party 2011 & The Bruery Provisions
If you’re a member of The Bruery‘s 2011 Reserve Society, you are one lucky SOB. Sure, the $195 membership is pricey for a casual beer drinker but it’s an investment for beer enthusiasts thanks to all the goodies they get, i.e. several limited edition beers, discounts and members-only events. (By the way, membership for 2011…
This Weekend: Burlesque Boot Camp and Boozy Bowling
Vandermemes from James Van Der Beek The first weekend of the rest of your 2011. How are you going to spend it? Thursday, January 6 Miss Dakota’s Burlesque Academy Forget the gym and all its New Year resolutioners. At this burlesque boot camp, which kicks off tonight, you get a great workout while picking up…
Scoops Westside: Wasabi Coconut Ice Cream Made Me Do It
I’ve been on the wagon for a little over a month now. No Trader Joe’s peppermint Jo-Jos, no egg nog and certainly no Scoops ice cream. I decided to start this little dessert strike December 1st. In a cruel twist of fate, this was also the same day that Matt Kang opened his Scoops Westside…
2011 New Year's Eve Parties With Open Bars
Haven’t nailed down your New Year’s Eve plans yet? I can tell since everyone keeps asking me what’s going on. So I compiled this little list of events around Los Angeles which feature open bars, for a price of course. But you can do all your drinking in one place without worry of keeping track…
Top 10 Favorite Cocktails of 2010
2010 was another good year for me and drinking. La Descarga and Hemingway’s opened, I gave up booze for a month and then was the judge for many cocktail competitions and even won an award for drinking a lot. But what really made this year awesome was the following cocktails, whether they introduced an innovative…
Vu Restaurant: Calvin Klein Cocktails, Manhattans on Crack
Jolie Klein, one of the four bartenders responsible for the cocktail menu at the new Vu Restaurant in Marina del Rey, seems to have the deck stacked against her: 1) Unlike a lot of L.A.’s renowned bartenders who can claim training under New York’s elite mixologists, she’s self taught; 2) she doesn’t have much on…
Magnum Dinner at Biergarten: Bad Boys, Banana Lovin and Good Times
If you didn’t know better, you’d think that Biergarten in Koreatown was misplaced there on Western Avenue. I know I did when I first heard about it. After all, it’s not really a beer garden, nor do they have karaoke. While there is a selection of sake and wine, its main focus is on fine…
