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Los Angeles Magazine – Best New Bars 2009

LAmag-sep.09The September issue of Los Angeles Magazine has hit the stands, featuring a “Best New Bars” cover story.

According to Editor Mary Melton, the article is intended to “herald the return of the bar—not the velvet-rope animal of yore but the chummy neighborhood pubs, crowded wine bars, and [...]

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Drinks with a View: Rockwell Opens in September

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Rockwell, a multi-level restaurant, bar and outdoor lounge located behind Vermont Restaurant in Los Feliz, is nearly ready for its September launch. Rockwell integrates 6,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor spaces, with dining and lounge areas designed around a 30-foot coral tree. A staircase leads [...]

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October 10: Jonathan Gold's Union Station Cocktail Party

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When it comes to food and drink writing in Los Angeles, Jonathan Gold is “the Man” and has the Pulitzer Prize to prove it. On October 10, he’s hosting Jonathan Gold’s Union Station Cocktail Party, a fundraiser for Zócalo Public Square, a non-profit organization that builds community [...]

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The Madness Returns: Mad Men Season 3

“Can I get you another drink?”
“Yeah. Do this again. Old Fashioned, please.”

Be like Don, order an Old Fashioned.

To drink like Don, you order an Old Fashioned. | Photo: AMC

With that drink order, the world was introduced to Don Draper and Mad Men, the acclaimed show that returns [...]

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Sipping the Summer During Sunday Supper

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Sunday Suppers at Lucques have become an L.A. dining institution, a guaranteed splendid evening at any time of the year. This past Sunday, to kill some time while waiting for another Comme Ca Block Party to begin, I stopped by Lucques, not knowing it happened to be [...]

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The Strip Heats Up: Summer Cocktails at RH

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Beau knows cocktails.

Take the former “Riot Hyatt” on Sunset, throw in a $48M renovation by the New York firm Janson Goldstein, add the Hindi word for “personal service,” and what do you get? Why, the Andaz West Hollywood, of [...]

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