Uh oh, I think Checkers Downtown got my beloved Copa d’Oro beat in the cheap classic cocktail arena! This Thursday from 4 to 8pm, the newly redesigned Hilton Hotel bar will be featuring $4 classic cocktails from Woodford Reserve. Yum! Old Fashioned: Woodford Reserve Bourbon, sugar cube, dashes of Angostura Bitters, club soda Beehive Cocktail:…
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Boozing Writers' Parties: The Imbiber and the Bubbly Girl
Photo by Bert Stern The Imbiber’s Ultimate Playmate Fantasy Wine Tour at Pourtal Playboy‘s bad boy boozing columnist and author of the must-read adventures-in-drinking memoir Nobody Likes a Quitter, Dan Dunn is kicking off what is most definitely the sexiest wine tasting tour in the history of the world. Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar in Santa…
The Edison's Radio Room: Speakeasy Night Goes Big
I usually don’t like to review the same place twice but the Edison‘s monthly Radio Room night has changed so much from its humble speakeasy beginnings in the back room of this downtown underground bar that it was just asking for a follow-up. Yes, now our little baby bar night’s all growns up as it’s…
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…
Comme Ca's D'Affaire Love Affair Menu: $2 Oysters, $7 Aphrodisiac Cocktails
Find yourself midtown after a midafternoon tryst or just need to kill some time till rush hour dies down-ish? Comme Ca on Melrose has just the thing, its Defaire Love Affair menu which features discounted nibbles like $2 oysters and $7 “petites assiettes” like steak tartare, crab cake and Croque Monsieur. And the bartenders will…
Akasha's Tru Organic Cocktail and Indian Dinner Pairing
Awesomeness! And FINALLY! A dinner that pairs food with not wine or beer but cocktails! I’m so excited! Chef Akasha Richmond of Culver City’s Akasha Restaurant, along with Litty Mathews and Melkon Khosrovian — the owners/creators of Tru Organic Spirits — is behind this very special and rarely seen food event. Chef Akasha, a fan…
The Edison's Radio Room: Tonight Featuring Las Vegas/San Francisco Mixologists
Tonight’s Radio Room aka “speakeasy night with guest starring bartenders” at the Edison downtown features Amanda Gager from Las Vegas and Jacqueline “Jackie” Patterson from San Francisco who, in addition to making fab cocktails at Heaven’s Dog, is recently known for creating a cocktail to pair with a cocktail dress! Noice! And here’s their menu…
BLVD 16 Rush Hour Happy Hour: Cheap Small Plates, Swank Lounge
Looking for a way to kill some time before you hit the CF that is the 405? BLVD 16 at Hotel Palomar on the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood has a surprisingly budget-friendly “rush hour” happy hour for a swank-looking setting. The small plates range in price from $3 to $5 and you can even get…
The Edison's Radio Room: Tonight Featuring Boston/Chicago Mixologists
It’s my favorite day of the month today, people! Radio Room at the Edison. But now it’s no longer the intimate shindig it once was. It’s almost as if this speakeasy night has gone legit but not in a bad way. Guest bartenders are now well-known mixologists arriving from everywhere outside the boundaries of our…
Micky's in West Hollywood: Rising From the Ashes
Before Micky’s in West Hollywood, I had never really been to a gay bar before. Sure, there was divey Rooster Fish in Venice and the clubby, slick Abbey on Robertson. But the former didn’t have hot go-go boys (or go-go boys at all) and the latter was more straights-integrated. But since my bro G and…
