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 For the first time since it opened, La Descarga has launched a cocktail menu that doesn’t include new drinks created by Steve Livigni and Pablo Moix. The Fall Cocktail Menu has 16 drinks, mostly created by head bartender Kenny Arbuckle, along with Meghan Malloy and Armando Conway. [...] Continue reading La Descarga Launches Fall Cocktails and Wednesday Music Night   Cocktail enthusiasts in the Valley have a place to call their own, now that Black Market Liquor Bar has opened in the former Wine Bistro space in Studio City. Cocktailians on the other side of the hill will want to make the pilgrimage to Black Market as well, thanks to a stellar drink menu created by Pablo Moix and Steve Livigni. [...] Continue reading Black Market Liquor Bar Opens in Studio City  With a slew of bar openings and more on the way, there’s never been a better time to be a cocktail enthusiast in the City of Angels. In recent weeks media coverage of the L.A. cocktail scene has ramped up, which makes it as good a time as any to collect some highlights from the last few months. [...] Continue reading All the Booze That’s Fit to Print – March 2011  Now open in Thai Town, Harvard & Stone is the latest from Mark and Johnny Houston, the owners of nearby La Descarga. Harvard & Stone follows the successful model established by its sister venue: take a dive bar, give it an aged patina that evokes another era, and have Steve Livigni and Pablo Moix create a stellar bar program. [...] Continue reading Harvard & Stone: A Great Escape in Thai Town  Hemingway would no doubt feel at home in the Old Havana setting of La Descarga, so it’s the perfect venue for an event called Moveable Feast: An Unpredictable Culinary Experience. [...] Continue reading January 30: Moveable Feast at La Descarga
On Thursday, December 9th, La Descarga is debuting its Winter Cocktail Menu, an extensive list of 21 drinks from Steve Livigni and Pablo Moix. The Winter Menu is evenly divided between Classics and House Cocktails, including a whiskey barrel-aged version of its excellent Tapping the Admiral that [...] Continue reading December 9: La Descarga Winter Cocktail Menu Launch
Michel Dozois Earlier this week, TIME magazine named Ludo Lefebvre one of its Chefs of the Future in an article that lauds him for “helping to reinvent the way we eat” with his LudoBites pop-up restaurants. In a similar innovative vein, NĂ©vĂ© Luxury Ice founder [...] Continue reading The NĂ©vĂ© Iceman Cometh to Osteria La Buca
On Tuesday, April 27, Névé Ice founder Michel Dozois presents the second installment of his Nights with Névé series of cocktail events. For this edition, Dozois teams up with La Descarga General Manager Steve Livigni to offer a menu of four specialty cocktails that convey the [...] Continue reading April 27: Nights with Névé at Osteria La Buca
“My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Hemingway’s handwritten tribute to his favorite cocktails can be found at La Bodeguita del Medio, one of his regular haunts in Havana. Papa would no doubt feel right at [...] Continue reading La Descarga: A Postcard from Old Havana An occasional roundup of L.A. cocktail culture in various media. Before recapping a busy January 2010 (see below) let’s take one last look at December 2009 and the decade that was. In its Dec. 29th edition, the NY Times published A Decade of Invention and Reinvention, its look at mixology trends of the decade. Topping the list is [...] Continue reading All the Booze That’s Fit to Print – January 2010 |
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