Wandering around Sunset Junction in Silver Lake on a recent visit to Los Angeles, I stumbled across Barkeeper, a barware and accoutrement store on Sunset. As a big fan of bar porn, this is my kind of place.
Billing itself as a head shop for alcohol lovers, Barkeeper’s walls are lined with glassware and tools, with [...]
Our final stop on our recent trip to Los Angeles was Boardner’s in Hollywood. Boardner’s was one of my favorite bars when I lived in LA. I didn’t come here all that often, but it was usually the one I first thought of when going to bars in Hollywood.
We stopped in here for a drink [...]
I recently picked up this book,
The Cocktail: 200 Fabulous Drinks. I won't lie, I bought it for the pictures, which are gorgeous fashiony collage pieces by one of my illustrators, Australian Kat MacLeod. But it doesn't end there. The recipes included in this little volume certainly do live up to the book's title.
The Dresden Room, located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, has been operating since the 1940s but became famous after its prominent appearance in Swingers in 1996.
We stopped in here around 8:00 on a Saturday evening, after a first round of cocktails at Yamashiro. The Dresden gets crowded on weekends, so your [...]
Sarai and recently I spent a week in Los Angeles and made a point of hitting a few old familiar spots. Saturday evening we went bar hopping with Nathan, starting off with drinks at Yamashiro, overlooking Hollywood and downtown LA.
Save the Sazerac, the fourth Cocktail Week event, was a reception celebrating Elixir’s 150th anniversary and benefit for Tales of the Cocktail, a not-for-profit culinary and cocktail festival held in New Orleans.
Monday night was the San Francisco Cocktail Week opening party at the Starlight Room, at the top of the Sir Francis Drake hotel in Union Square. Sarai and I got there just as it was starting and hung out for a couple hours taking pictures and enjoying the cocktails.
Last night was was the kick-off party for
International Flight Lounge, a new monthly event at
Forbidden Island in Alameda. International Flight Lounge is described as
"A hi-flying mix of the best uptempo '60s French pop, Euro beat and film soundtracks, exotica, British invasion, and much more".
After nearly two years, I finally made it out to Forbidden Island, the new (well, newish) tiki bar in Alameda. Residents of Alameda refer to themselves as “island people”, so a place like this fits in well. (For those unfamiliar with the area, Alameda really is an island in the San Francisco bay.)
Forbidden Island’s reputation [...]
