Roving bar night Red Rover which had debuted this past March at First & Hope Supper Club will now be popping up on the Westsiide! Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica on Monday, July 12 to be exact. Yes, Marcos Tello and Aidan Demarest, aka cocktail consultation firm, Tello/Demarest Liquid Assets, will not only be bringing…
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First & Hope Supper Club Debuts With a New Bar Night: Red Rover, Red Rover
OK, so First & Hope Supper Club didn’t open last night as planned and will instead open up toward the end of this month. That’s OK, though, because Aidan Demarest and Marcos Tello of Tello/Demarest Liquid Assets cocktail consultation want to kick things off with a bang. And their new bar night, Red Rover, Red…
How To Order a Drink at the Edison's Radio Room, & Last Night's Recap
By 10:45pm, I was done. My friend Dre and I had sat on the same bar stools at the Edison’s uber-packed Radio Room night since 8 but at this point we (read: me) were tired of getting leaned on by drunk girls, projectile flirted over by drunk girls and spilled on by drunk girls as…
A Closer Peek at First & Hope Supper Club
Earlier this week I had a chance to check out the not-yet-opened First & Hope Supper Club thanks to Aidan Demarest, its cocktail consultant, who was hosting a Pernod absinthe event for a bunch of journalists. Apparently the party guests started off at the Varnish and then were taken via horse-drawn carriages up the long…
Insider Info About Downtown's New First & Hope Supper Club
It’s a mixology musical chairs in L.A. lately what with the shake-up of Audrey Saunders leaving as partner and head of the bar at The Tar Pit and barman Marcos Tello up in the air about taking her place behind the stick*, and Joseph Brooke leaving Copa d’Oro to take over as director of spirits…
What's the Most Romantic Cocktail?
Ferget chocolates. I don’t know about you but nothing says “olive juice”(mouth it) like a custom-made cocktail. But out of curiosity, I asked some of L.A.’s top mixologists/bartenders what they consider to be the most romantic cocktail; specifically what would they serve their luh-vuh. I got some interesting answers, all seem to involve bubbly, and…
The Edison's Repeal Day Skating Party: Facing Fears, Santa & Holiday Cocktails on Ice
Esther videos Shelley aka fauxlahipster and my roommate Kristina around the rink. Aidan Demarest, The Edison‘s director of beverages, has taken it upon himself to bring Christmas to downtown Los Angeles. Our city doesn’t get much if any snow and Angelenos track the seasons by what the local weatherman reports about the rest of the…
The Edison's Radio Room Featuring the No. 1 Bartender in the World
This month’s Radio Room at the Edison is just around the corner and check out what goodies you have to look forward to by guest mixologists, Jeffrey Morganthaler of Portland, Oregon, and John Lermayer, Travel and Leisure Magazine‘s No. 1 Bartender in the World. Cocktail Menu of the Evening ($14 each): Allspice Sour: Hudson River…
Tell No One: Speakeasy Sundays at the Edison
Hmm, I’m not sure I want to tell anyone about this but at the same time I feel obligated. Oh well, I’ll just tell you guys and hopefully you keep it on the QT. But last night I went to the Edison in Downtown L.A. for its new bar night called Speakeasy Sundays. And it…
Malo’s New and Tasty Tequila Cocktail Menu
Flickr shot by drspam (detail) Wonder where all your favorite bartenders from Seven Grand have gone? Well, Aidan Demarest (formerly 7G and the Doheny’s GM) is now director of beverages and spirits at the Edison, Damian Windsor will be starting his stint at Gordon Ramsay at the London on July 2 (I’ll consider that an…
