The title of this post says it all: Thirsty in LA was named Best Cocktail Blog by the LA Weekly! [...]
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 It’s May 13th, and on this day last year I was in New York on the eve of the inaugural Manhattan Cocktail Classic to toast World Cocktail Day and celebrate my First Blogiversary with my blogger twin, The Dizzy Fizz. And even though I’ll be in L.A. this year and have to settle for vicariously drinking through everyone’s tweets and posts, I’ll be content in knowing that Los Angeles will be well-represented at MCC. [...] Continue reading LA in NY: The City of Angels at the 2011 Manhattan Cocktail Classic  Bulleit Rye Whiskey made its national debut in March 2011, and it looks poised to garner the same devotion and acclaim as its predecessor. [...] Continue reading Bulleit Rye Whiskey is Right on Target  On Sunday, Feb. 20th, Santa Monica’s Hotel Shangri-La presents the first of its weekly Speakeasy Sundays at Suite 700, hosted by mixologist Chris Corbin. [...] Continue reading The Wayback Machine: Speakeasy Sundays at Hotel Shangri-La  Jonathan Gold recently hosted his second annual Union Station Speakeasy Cocktail Party, featuring cocktails by the bars of 213 and gourmet bites from some of L.A.’s top restaurants. The event was a fundraiser for Zócalo Public Square, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides a nonpartisan forum to prominent thinkers and doers via lectures, panels, salons, screenings, webzine and annual conferences. [...] Continue reading A Hot Time at Jonathan Gold’s Second Annual Union Station Cocktail Party
Wild Turkey Associate Distiller Eddie Russell, newly inducted into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. This weekend has been an especially memorable one for Wild Turkey, thanks to Friday’s induction of Associate Distiller Eddie Russell into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. [...] Continue reading A Wild Turkey Celebration of National Bourbon Heritage Month
If this was your office, you'd be smiling too: David Pickerell (L) and Raj Peter Bhakta (R) at the WhistlePig Farm Distillery. A group of spirits cognoscenti gathered at Seven Grand last Thursday for the Los Angeles launch of WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey, a 100 [...] Continue reading WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey Launches at Seven Grand On Tuesday, July 13, the Edison will be in a New York state of mind when it celebrates the upcoming launch of the Edison New York with its latest Radio Room, featuring guest mixologists Michael Neff, Kenneth McCoy and Abdul Tabini of Ward III in Tribeca. The trio of owners/bartenders have garnered acclaim [...] Continue reading July 13: Radio Room at the Edison Celebrates Manhattan  With a limit of just nine attendees, Stories from Behind the Bar: PDT was one of the first seminars to sell out almost immediately after online tickets went on sale. Since its opening in 2007, Please Don’t Tell (PDT) has garnered acclaim for its classically-inspired seasonal cocktails: at the Tales of the Cocktail 2009 Spirited Awards, PDT was named World’s Best Cocktail Bar and Managing Partner Jim Meehan was named American Bartender of the Year. [...] Continue reading Stories from Behind the Bar: PDT  On Friday, May 14, the center of the cocktail universe was at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, site of the 2010 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala. From 9pm to 1am, 2500 sharply-dressed imbibers roamed the Beaux-Arts splendor of the New York Public Library, sampling cocktails from 150 mixologists and 137 liquor brands from around the world. [...] Continue reading An Epic Night at the 2010 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala |
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