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…
Tag Archive: Cocktails
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…
Giveaway: Free Five-Cocktail Tasting at Osteria La Buca
***CONTEST CLOSED*** In celebration of Christmas, Osteria La Buca in Hollywood is hosting a “12 days of Christmas” promotion where it offers a new gift every day via Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. You can win things like a free lunch, dinner or holiday gathering and choose to enjoy it yourself or get it in the…
Hostaria del Piccolo: White Pizza & The 7 Dwarfs Cocktails
What is the big deal with Chef Roberto “Bobo” Ivan’s Hostaria del Piccolo, the Santa Monica sister to his Piccolo restaurant in Venice? Well, not only does the modern pizza joint offer gluten-free pie — made with naturally leavened dough comprised of kamut, soy and polenta flour — but they have a gorgeously stocked bar…
Tonight: La Descarga Debuts New Winter Drink Menu
CORRECTION: The menu launches tomorrow night! La Descarga in East Hollywood debuts its new winter drink menu! Of course the classics and some crowd favorites remain, like Hemingway’s Daquiri and Tapping the Admiral, which LD owner Steve Livigni says is “now barrel aged for two weeks in whiskey barrels and served neat, exponentially better.” Sadly,…
Providence Bartender Zahra Bates' Bruleed Persimmon Holiday Cocktail
My list of the top 10 holiday cocktails in L.A. is up on Squid Ink today and features tasty boozy seasons greetings by some of our town’s best bartenders. And no, there aren’t any peppermint mochaccino martinis here. Rather, these are cocktails that personify the flavors of this time of year: nog, cranberry, butter rum…
Hemingway’s Lounge’s Winter Menu: He Said, She Said Cocktail Review
Looking around Hemingway’s Lounge, a new Hollywood bar marked by high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, wall of old typewriters, and artwork, I half expect the big guy himself to be sitting at one end of the bar mumbling and nursing a daiquiri (recipe for the Papa Dobles, a daiquiri created for and named after Papa Hemingway)….
Thirsty for Turkey: Thanksgiving Cocktails in LA
Thanksgiving is definitely the foodster’s holiday. It’s the time when we can gorge without judgment. But everyone and their favorite blogger can tell you where to score a delicious turkey dinner. What I really wanted to know was where in L.A. can you get a delicious Thanksgiving-inspired cocktail. I mean, come on, T Day is…
Favorite Bites and Sips at LA Loves Alex's Lemonade
Sunday may have been the inaugural LA Loves Alex’s Lemonade food event for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation — a charity dedicated to fighting childhood cancer — but you wouldn’t have known it was the first time by sauntering around the beautifully laid-out event. Unlike most food fests which are usually crazy feeding frenzies and absurdly…
