Easy’s, the new brightly lit diner that sits on the second floor of the Beverly Center, is the only food on this level. Booths and bar seating are ready for your sugar and fat cravings from 10 am to 10 pm daily. This neo-vintage Americana corner in the newly updated mall is just one of the many new concepts from celebrity restauranteur extraordinaire Jeremy Fall, who … Continue reading Easy’s playful diner fare
Revenge, like a refreshing craft cocktail, is best served cold. On Wednesday evening, both were elevated to high art at Arclight Cinemas’ Lights, Camera, Cocktails series as the Santa Monica location of the theater chain teamed up with Bar Accomplice to host a screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1. The series, which pairs top local bartenders and classic movies, debuted to great fanfare … Continue reading Movies and Mixology
Los Angeles is known as the “City of Stars”, for obvious and completely accurate reasons. But after Cointreau took over Hollywood for a few nights in October, it seems that we might also need to call it the “City of Spirits. Hidden away amidst the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown, Quixote Studios took a few evenings off from filming to play host to the Cointreau … Continue reading Lights, Camera, and Cocktails with Cointreau!
Recipe for fun: Get your best friend, take the top down, and inch your way down the 405 to Surf City, USA, aka, Huntington Beach. Full disclosure, I did some growing up in the not-really-that-immediate vicinity and when someone said the word, “beach,” it was just assumed they meant Huntington. A lot’s changed since then (there’s now an internet, we all have cell phones, Communism … Continue reading Welcome to Dog-Friendly Surf City
The Jeremy Hotel on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood offers an open elegant space with mod mid-century couches, luxurious textures, mood lighting, and pretty much gorgeous Instagram-worthy shots everywhere. Etcho Cafe is open from breakfast to evening in the lobby level. Pick up a Calif-fresh breakfast sandwich, premium coffee, cold-pressed juice, or grab a sandwich to go for that Runyon Canyon hike. But what we didn’t … Continue reading Jeremy’s Hotel’s Joao Lobby Bar is more than outstanding cocktails
When it’s this hot in L.A., I seem to spend my hour constantly searching out the next air-conditioned spot and accompanying cool refreshment. And to be honest, when it comes to the latter, the usual suspects just aren’t cutting it these days. An ice cold beer turns into malt soup halfway through. A steaming plate of nachos seems to lose its crunch before it’s even … Continue reading Gin Sippin’ and Oyster Shootin’ Away the L.A. Summer Heat
Remember Jones, the hottest spot in LA for many years that was frequented daily by real celebs some ten years ago? Now the visionary owners and partners Sean MacPherson and Jared Meisler of Jones plus hotspots The Pikey, Roger Room and Bar Lubitsch bring you West Hollywood’s newest addition, Barbette. The French-inspired bar and bistro with booths is stylish and classy, perfect for that after work drink meet-up … Continue reading Barbette, West Hollywood’s new Frenchie Bistro Bar
In every major city across the world, there is a renewed interest in well-made cocktails crafted with care and quality ingredients- Los Angeles is certainly no exception. And Time Out, the global media and entertainment brand that aims to inspire people to make the most of their city, sought to recognize this resurgence and honor L.A.’s best mixologists, cocktails, and watering holes through its 2018 … Continue reading A Monday Night “Time Out” at the Los Angeles Bar Awards
Years ago Bar Toscana in Brentwood was a place I met friends for cocktails in my single days. Thankfully this intimate cocktail bar (since 2010) that sits next to the Tuscan trattoria TOSCANA on San Vicente is still around – for almost 30 years now! That is quite a feat in Los Angeles where peoples’ tastes change daily and many Angelenos tire of restaurants only … Continue reading Toscana in Brentwood, almost 30 years Italian strong
The overhaul of Robertson Plaza is off to a great start. In addition to a Blue Bottle Cafe, the space also now boasts a chic new eatery. The former site of The Newsroom is now occupied by The Henry, an elegant all-day dining locale and watering hole (that could be interpreted as an “all-day watering hole,” which would be entirely too self-revealing…). Located on Robertson … Continue reading Regarding The Henry
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