Just got the heads-up about this from Goldstar: discounts off a couple of the hottest food festival tickets! Only problem? They’re both for the same day, Sunday, September 5! Oh, the humanity! So to help you decide, here’s a quick breakdown of each event’s discount offer. Food & Wine’s Taste of Beverly Hills’ Art of…
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Grey Goose Vodka Dinner at Checkers Downtown
You’ve heard of beer-paired dinners and even Kahlua-paired dinners but rarely the dinner with vodka, I bet. I guess it sounds like it would be too easy. I consider vodka the tofu of the spirits, it can mix with pretty much anything. But at the Grey Goose Vodka dinner at Checkers Downtown this Wednesday, the…
Launch of Bigfoot Lodge West’s New 80-Whiskey List
This Saturday, Bigfoot Lodge West in Culver City/Palms is launching a brand-new cocktail menu and whiskey list. “But didn’t they just open? What’s with a new list already?” you may ask, and yes they opened just over a year ago. But this new whiskey list boasts to have “the biggest small batch bourbon selection and…
This Weekend: Steampunk Affair, Venice Art Crawl, Evil Dead Double Feature
Rich Parents from The Midnight Show My plans this weekend? Moving boxes and UHaul truck. Yours? See below: Thursday, August 19 Debut of Venice Beach’s Monthly Art Crawl Now Westsiders who are averse to crossing the Great 405 Divide won’t have to wish they could go downtown for an art crawl. Venice Beach is kicking…
Win Tickets to LA Times' Celebration of Food and Wine
CONTEST CLOSED Forget the beach bbqs during Labor Day Weekend, people, you’re going to want to save your appetite for the good stuff: the LA Times‘ first food fest, Los Angeles Times Celebration of Food & Wine, is all day Sunday, September 5, at Paramount Pictures Studio Backlot in Hollywood. It’s going to be a…
Highlights of Angeleno Magazine's Great Chefs Night Out 2010 at the Fairmont
On August 1, food enthusiasts, restaurant critics and of course great chefs converged at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica for Angeleno Magazine‘s Great Chefs Night Out 2010 and 8th Annual Restaurant Awards, which was hosted by Angeleno‘s James Beard award-winning food and travel editor, Brad A. Johnson. We were all there to celebrate his…
What's Old Is New Again: L'Ermitage Beverly Hills' New Cocktail Menu
As I am a boozer on a budget, I tend to avoid hotel bars because they normally charge $15 and up for their cocktails. But I wasn’t about to turn down an invite to check out the new cocktail menu at schmancy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills. It was hosted anyway, heh. Before I go on, yes,…
This Weekend: Kawaii Sales, Bloomfest LA, Blue Palms Beer Party
Whoa, there’s wayyy too many things going on this Saturday, it’s so intense. Too bad I gotta pack for my move. Friday, August 13 L.A.M.B. & Harajuku Lovers Sample Sale LA For the first time ever in LA, Gwen Stefani’s two lines, L.A.M.B. and Harajuku Lovers, will be available at a sample sale. Normally her…
Free Ice Cream at Poketo for Target Ice Cream Meetup
To celebrate the launch of its “Poketo for Target” accessories collection, the artsy collective will be throwing an ice cream meetup at the Target West Hollywood store on August 14 from 1 to 3:30pm where you can also chat with Poketo co-founder Ted Vadakan. The first 100 folks to show up will get a free…
My 5th Blogiversary Party at First & Hope + Cocktail Punch Recipe
If you were a reader of my blog two years ago, no doubt you attended my 3rd blogiversary party at Bar Lubitsch. That was a big ‘un with liquor sponsors and a raffle-like giveaway. Since this year was my 5th, my friends and crackheads were asking if I had planned to do anything that big…
