Deborah Stoll

The Moscow Mule is a delightfully refreshing cocktail with a Hollywood pedigree. In 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor, John G. Martin of Heublein, an East Coast spirits distributor, and Jack Morgan, owner of the late Cock 'n' Bull bar on Sunset Boulevard (whose name, consequently, was bought by Tony Moogan,......

If you love L.A.'s booming cocktail culture but aren't sure how to dress the part, below are some fashion tips courtesy of Sarah Dale, proprietress of Pull My Daisy in Silverlake. Carrying predominately local designers with predilections toward classic shapes with a modern bent, Dale's shop is an emporium of......

Ask any potential restaurant or bar owner what the most shudder-inducing phrase is and you can bet they'll say, "We're waiting on our liquor license." Can getting a liquor license really be so hard?......

In 1899, a musical called Florodora was made famous in large part (well, or small) by its chorus of six identically-sized singing and dancing girls (5 ft. 4 in.). Young men were said to crowd the theater every night and all six original Florodoras bagged herself a millionaire. These days,......

The Radio Room at The Edison is host to the most unique cocktail program around: every month, Aidan Demarest, The Edison's director of beverages and spirits, along with lead barman Marcos Tello, invites mixologists from across the country to spend a night behind their bar, pouring up cocktails created expressly......

Green Chartreuse shots for breakfast kick off a Monday right nice, especially when they're being served to you on the patio at The Doheny. Starting at the ungodly hour of noon, sixteen men and women representing the city's top drinking establishments--The Varnish, The Doheny, SLS, Rivera, Copa d'Oro, The Library......

Andie: So what do you want to drink? Duckie: Oh you know, beer, scotch, juice box... whatever. More than anyone, John Hughes mined the psyches of the high school teen. In honor of his passing, the following is a recipe for the whiskey sour, a drink that, unfortunately, shares the......

I don't know about you, but I still mourn the loss of Deadwood, the cancelled HBO series starring ill-tempered, foul-mouthed Al Swerengen. So when I come across words that sound as poetically filthy, even Shakespearean, as the rest of creator David Milch's dialogue, I grab the reigns and hold on......

Numbers can be a drag. Especially when you're following a cocktail recipe and you encounter "1/2 glass of brandy". Uh, what size glass? A pint glass? A wine glass? A shot glass? A search for the proper conversion can lead to interpretations that are even less helpful "1 glass =......