Booze News

Spirited Women’s Group Imbibe Delicious Gin Cocktails at Westside Tavern

I know it’s hard for some to ‘get with’ gin but I think all of those doubters were won over the other night at our Spirited Women’s cocktail group at the Westside Tavern. Wow, we were treated to some delectable cocktails by Silamith Weir, English Gins Connoisseur, and made to perfection by fabulous bartender, Kylee [...]

• Real Women Drink Real Cocktails

Low-cal is like pushing sex ‘lite’. It superficially treats the desire but ultimately reinforces the longing. Sure, there are times when a quickie behind a barn is just the thing, but a steady diet of brief encounters will probably make you frustrated in a really bad way. So it is with anything ‘skinny’ or diet, [...]

• Los Angeles: Spirited Women’s Cocktail Group Meeting This Week at Westside Tavern

This week, Spirited Women will be meeting at the Westside Tavern, Thursday, August 18th, at 6pm for a wonderful tasting led by English Gins Connoisseur, Silamith Weir, who I had the pleasure of meeting at a gin breakfast recently. Kylee Van Dillen will be our fabulous bartender. I know there are gin lovers and gin [...]

• “a woman walks into a bar…” and has Gin for Breakfast

Well, this wasn’t actually a bar I walked into but an adjunct to Big Bar at Alcove, so I’m counting it. Big Bar hosted a gin breakfast, in their cottage behind Alcove, called Breakfast of Champions which, believe me, required some champion drinking before noon. I wondered who would, or could, come to a 10:30am [...]

• Going to Solvang? Don’t miss Sagebrush Annie’s

By: D.R. Stewart – boozenews.com intrepid reporter When making a trip to Santa Barbara/Solvang, consider going inland. East, young man. That’s right — suck it, Horace Greeley. The town is called Ventucopa and the establishment is Sagebrush Annie’s. On Route 33.   Proprietors Larry and Karina Hogan run the place.  As Larry says, “Karina came [...]

• “a woman walks into a bar…” at the Peninsula Hotel & the Roger Room

Beverly Hills, land of the rich, the famous, social climbers and lost souls, occasional murderers and captains of industry. All potential, covert Johns. And where might these Johns be? Well, at the Peninsula Hotel bar, of course, where hookers offer room service with your cocktail, and Hollywood talent agencies are a stone’s throw away so [...]

“a woman walks into a bar…” at La Descarga

Sometimes an evening out at the bar doesn’t make the time fly as it does when you’re in a bubble of jollity, quaffing ambrosial spirits. Sometimes you’re stuck in limbo merely as an observer, surveying the herd at play as the hands of time tick-tock loudly away making you acutely aware of Father Time. This [...]

• Top 10 pubs whilst embracing & enjoying the Edinburgh Festival

The Edinburgh Festival is definitely world renowned as one of Scotland’s treasures. Edinburgh is quintessential Scottish living at its best. When celebrating the Scottish festival try to also sample the local flavor. Located in the famous Grassmarket, Biddy Mulligans tops this list as Edinburgh city’s oldest and most successful Irish pub in the region. Great [...]

• “a woman walks into a bar…” at Harvard & Stone

Oh lordy. What a night. Walk into Harvard & Stone and you may think that you’ve walked onto the set for Boardwalk Empire. The place veritably oozes atmosphere, Prohibition-style and not the cheesy kind. It’s fabulous. A gigantic bar greets you and takes up most of the enormous room but I walk past, to the [...]

“a woman walks into a bar…” at Naja’s Redondo Beach

Ah, traveling the roads on a Sunday afternoon in LA is a traffic-less gift. It makes you almost feel like just driving around cause you can get anywhere in no time flat. What a rarity, what a feeling flying down the freeway to the beach and beer. Lots of beer. 88 taps worth. And 13 [...]

“a woman walks into a bar…” at El Chubasco, Echo Park

The sun begins its descent in the spring sky. On a desolate block of Sunset Boulevard, tumbleweed bounces lazily across the road, dust dances in tiny tornadoes swirling from abandoned lots, the temperature sizzles and heat waves rise like candle vapors. My throat’s parched, coated with grit. I need relief from the scorching heat and [...]

• Wine/Wines dot com – Whose Domain Name Will Reign Supreme?

In the way that some folks wish they could time-travel back to 1899 and snap up a Picasso, I harbor dreams of pointing my DeLorean’s Flux-Capacitor squarely at the mid-1990s so I could buy the domain rights for “coke.com” Recently, at South-by-Southwest I met Adi Pavlovic, Director of Sales for the websites www.personalwine.com, but most [...]

• How many beers can you drink in 7 hours?

Oh boy. The ColLAboration craft beer garden pop-up event this past Saturday in LA  couldn’t have been more delicious! The weather cooperated, not too hot, and beer seems to chill people out in the most convivial way. While I didn’t stay for the entire seven hours, I, amazingly, stayed for five serene hours and imbibed [...]

“a woman walks into a bar…” at Palate

I’ve been meaning to go to Palate, in Glendale, for jazz nite for, well, since it started…what, two years ago? Finally, a couple of weeks ago, hurrah, Tuesday night was free so I zoomed over there, all excited to make it a twofer – wine tasting + jazz. Full disclosure: I LOVE JAZZ…deeply. I finally [...]

• Ready to RUMble

Not being a regular rum drinker other than old school rum & coke, and oh, mojitos in Havana, I was lucky to be sent a bottle each of Cockspur Aged Reserve Rum and Cockspur Bajan Crafted Rum 12 to try. As luck would have it, I was having a dinner party and thought it would [...]