Absinthe

Adam Fleischman Takes Over L.A. Creamery Introduces Bizarro Flavors

Umami Burger owner Adam Fleischman has added another asset to his ever-expanding food empire, which includes 800 Degrees Pizza and Red Medicine, acquiring an ownership stake in the 2-year-old, Chatsworth-based L.A. Creamery. Fleischman plans to expand distribution (the ice cream is already availab ... More >>

Smells Like Romance: L.A.'s First Pheromone Party

Remember that time in college you walked into your dorm room and found the weird guy from down the hall sitting on your bed smelling your shirts? This is just like that but less creepy and more organized. Last night Cinefamily hosted a Pheromone Party, thrown by Pheromone Party creator, filmmaker, ... More >>

2012 Will Just Be Ducky!

Church and State:
 Still Stellar Under Jeremy Berlin

Anne Fishbeinthe absinthe wall at Church and State​ Everybody knows Church and State. It's that loud bistro, decorated year-round with strings of Christmas lights. Walter Manzke used to cook there. The drinks used to be good, too. Is it still there? That part of downtown was pretty cool before ... More >>

Drink This Now: Cat Juggler at Caña The Recipe

The last time we got around to reviewing Caña's seasonal cocktail menu, it was about two weeks before the season ended. You can no longer order the Misti Dawn Swizzle, our favorite temporal libation unless, just maybe, you ask oh-so-sweetly or you happen to be porn star Misti Dawn. Since no one wil ... More >>

Lina In L.A.

It's easy to be green on the club dance floor

LinA in LA: This Week's Dance Club Picks

Attention clubbers and nightlife revelers: Here, we present our brand new club-centric column for LA Weekly's print edition, a platter of party picks to mark your calendar by every week. If it's popping in LA (get it... L "in" A?), and DJs or dancing are involved, we'll have it for you right here.. ... More >>

8 Charlie Sheen Cocktail Recipes from L.A. Bartenders

Liza GershmanThe Bitter End cocktail.​The Charlie Sheen train wreck continues to disgust and fascinate us, inspiring Mad Libs, an online glossary, a gastronomic history and Twitter hashtags. But the oddest by-product of the Sheen meme has to be the cocktail recipes. You can thank the actor's t ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

I Bring The Music, You Bring The Food: Backstage With Amanda Palmer Her Catering Fans

Cathy KirkpatrickAmanda Palmer (center) at a backstage family meal in Australia​ A couple of weeks ago, we learned how comedian Kathy Griffin enhances the quality of what she eats on the road by getting her more than half million Twitter followers to direct her to small mom-and-pop restaurants ... More >>

Someone Stole Paris Hilton's Birthday Cake

Paz's Facebook pageParis Hilton's birthday cake​ You may not have noticed it after all the drinks you downed from any and all of the six open bars at Paris Hilton's 30th birthday party (our invite must have gotten lost in the mail), but that cake you saw? Yeah, you didn't get a piece. In fact ... More >>

Paris Hilton Absinthe Stolen Cake = Lamest PR Stunt of the Week

Paris Hilton's 2008 birhtday, not involving absinthe or stolen baked goods or lame PR press-releases​ Some PR creature just sent us the following statement. It's like staring at The Void right in the face, while The Void throws up pungent chunks right in your face: In response to the Lucid A ... More >>

Top 10 Cookbook And Drink Gift Pairings: The Hard Alcohol Edition

J. GarbeeSaffron Makes So Many Things Better. Much Better.​Those crazy low Amazon prices are great if you're buying a new cookbook for yourself, but they quickly deflate that $50 $32 Noma perceived gift value. What better to pair with a cookbook than something to drink? Because those "blueberr ... More >>

Cocktail Book Reviews: Absinthe, Times Three A Post Prop 19 Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipe

Flickr user jennhxTo Get Beyond The Absinthe Drip, We Highly Recommend A Cocktail Book​Here's something to be thankful for in the wake of Prop 19's smoldering remains -- absinthe is still legal after three years. Which means you can serve a Green Fairy cocktail to your cranky aunt on Thanksgiv ... More >>

And the Morn Shall Be Filled with Cocktail: The Champagne Cocktail's Start 4 Cocktail Recipes

For some, winter signifies the anticipation of ski trips and memories of Asti Spumante commercials (what a jerk!) For others, it means hard-won-physique-covering-puffy-coats and rising for work in the dark/returning home in much of the same. Here are some things to be thankful for: 1. It doesn't sn ... More >>

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Fraîche Airs

Dining on Culver City’s most fashionable few yards