The Coca-Cola Company has relaunched Barrilitos, the historic  Mexican soft drink brand that debuted in  Monterrey, México, in 1938. A new addition to Coca-Cola’s imports portfolio, Barrilitos is introducing four flavors produced and imported from Mexico using cane sugar, available in two sizes: a  12oz glass bottle and a 1.5L PET multi-serve bottle. There’s Mandarina (mandarin), Manzana (apple), Piña (pineapple), and Ponche de Frutas (fruit punch), and all come in their original twist-top glass bottles.

Also new on the thirst-quenching market with a little more kick is Lipton Hard Iced Tea (5% ABV), which is now available in natural fruit flavors. It has a triple-filtered, premium malt base and real brewed Lipton tea. Five flavors include lemon, peach, strawberry, and citrus green tea and are available in 12-can variety packs and cans.

Barrilitos

Courtesy Barrilitos

The Los Angeles Vintners Association will celebrate L.A. area-grown wine at Angeleno Wine Company on Friday, Nov.  15  , from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will feature winemakers from 11 different wineries with unlimited tastings of more than  30 different types and styles of L.A. wine representing vineyards from Malibu, Bel-Air, Santa Clarita, Antelope Valley, San Bernardino and more. Tickets are $65 per person, which includes unlimited tastings. Early Birds will receive a special edition stemless “L.A. Vintners” branded wine glass. Must be 21 and up. Participants include Moraga Estates, NABU Wines, Warson, Byron Blatty Wines, Cavaletti Vineyards, and Friendly Noise. Get tickets here.

To celebrate the highly anticipated Friday, Nov. 22 premiere of Wicked in theaters,  SusieCakes is offering a magical pre or post-viewing experience with a limited-time offer starting on Friday, Nov. 1.  The Wickedly Popular Cake will also be available to order online or in-store at  SusieCakes’ 29 locations.  The classic vanilla celebration cake has gotten a wicked makeover, featuring a green ombre design topped with playful pink swirls and white and silver sprinkles,  finished with a green witch hat and pink witch wand.  The Wickedly Popular Cupcake 4-Box includes two pink vanilla cupcakes and two rich green chocolate cupcakes, each topped with matching sanding sugar.  

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Family Style Food Festival (Courtesy ComplexCon)

Family Style Food Festival, the first-ever festival at the intersection of food and streetwear with a stellar lineup of the best chefs, restaurants and entertainment will arrive in Las Vegas for the first time at ComplexCon on Saturday, Nov. 16 and Sunday, Nov. 17. Participants include  Lotus of Siam, One Piece Cafe, Milpa, Pink Box Doughnuts, Tiger Sugar, Naked City, Mama Nena’s and Max’s Chicken as well as out-of-state legends like Boiling Crab, African Chop House, Mr. Charlie’s, Trill Burgers,  Camel Coffee, Veggie Fam, Sorry Not Sorry Ice Cream, Brique, Irv’s Burgers, Saint Honoré, Cafe Lola, Supino Pizzeria x Mom’s Spaghetti, Big B’s Texas BBQ and L.A.’s Howlin’ Rays.

Food influencer and critic, Keith Lee, will curate a special picks section of the festival, featuring some of his favorite Las Vegas eateries, including Frankensons Pizzeria, Buldogis, and Lefty-J’s Island Favorites. 

On Sunday, Nov. 10, at Spago Beverly Hills,  Wolfgang Puck and Adam Perry Lang will team up for a one-day-only BBQ Brunch collaboration. Tickets are $150 and include bottomless bubbles as well as honey  Jidori chicken with  Calabrian chili, colossal smoked beef short ribs, sweet and sticky pork ribs, buttermilk biscuits with black truffle honey, and house-cured smoked fish mousse with caviar. A portion of the event proceeds will support the Dream For Future Africa Foundation; tickets are available on SEVENROOMS

What’s Popping Up is a column in the L.A. Weekly that explores everything new in food and drink.