Deborah Stoll

Chris Doyle has been pulling pints since the tender age of seventeen. Hailing from Dublin, and now the incredibly zesty age of "somewhere around seventy," Doyle has spent the past thirty-three years pulling pints at Tom Bergin's. A ball of energy, Doyle bounces from one end of the bar to......

Someone raised Eric Tecosky well. Smart, fun, absurdly good-looking, with a scholar's knowledge of seventies rock music and manners befitting a southern gentleman, ET (as he's familiarly known) is, to the best of my knowledge, the only hyphenate of his kind: Bartender/Writer/Olive Juice Maker/Zeppelin Fan and inventor of the Surfer......

What started out at the beginning of this year as an intimate, reserved evening in a small part of a labyrinthine club with a jazz band as accompaniment and one or two of L.A.'s great cocktailians serving up specialty cocktails, has become a monthly party of outlandish performances, body paint,......

With a cornucopia of fresh fruits, herbs and dehydrated orange slices, and jars of pickled this-and-thats covering the bar-top, Matthew Biancaniello has turned the Library Bar at The Roosevelt Hotel with its horn-armed animal-hide covered chairs, into a gothic farmer's market for boozehounds. Something of an upsetter win at last......

It goes without saying that when America's Next Top Bartender, aka, "On the Rocks," held auditions in Vegas, the turnout was heavily female. Their next stop was Los Angeles, which yielded a heavy male showing. What was surprising was the turnout in SO CAL = small. After hours of shooting......

Sociologist Gerhard Lenski classified societies as hunters and gatherers, agricultural, and industrial. The Seven Grand Whiskey Society is comprised of all three as it is a gathering of enthusiasts in a place filled with taxidermy, tasting things created with malt, barley and rye, in a city where industry thrives......

The Sidecar is a one-wheeled car for a single passenger attached to the side of a motorcycle. The Sidecar is also a drink that, as popular lore has it, was invented at a bar in Paris for a World War I American Army Captain who liked to arrive in the......

If you've ever wondered why there are no Scottish Olympians, it's because they drink whiskey instead of water. Or so says Martin Daraz, Highland Park's Brand Ambassador who last Tuesday led a Scotch intensive at Seven Grand. Free to members of the Southern California United States Bartending Guild, (So Cal......

The Blood and Sand Cocktail is named after a 1922 movie starring Rudolph Valentino and Rita Hayworth, which, in turn, was named after a book published in 1908 by Spanish novelist and political activist, Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Both book and film tell the tale of Juan Gallardo, a bullfighter who......

Having created a mini niche empire with his beer and wine "Rooms" in New York, Miami and Venice Beach, Craig Weiss is gearing up to open a visionary neighborhood foodie haven called Local 1205 next to his bar The Otheroom, on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. Squid Ink took a......