Bow & Truss & Sherry

Spanish-accented cocktails in North Hollywood

Sherry being mischaracterized as “the sweet stuff” in The New Yorker and picked as Ed Helms’ comic shot of choice in the film Cedar Rapids are two symptoms of the...

Highland Park Rising

Two dive bars, reborn

First Highland Park’s bungalows were remodeled; now the nearby dive bars are getting a facelift. Two new drinking establishments in the neighborhood have turned existing...

Son of a Shandy

A different kind of beer cocktail

We sometimes feel that Los Angeles’ burgeoning cocktail scene has overstepped its bounds. In our mind, booze-heavy drinks should be a before-or-after proposition, libations...

When Bitter Is Sweet

Sadie brings unique ice-cream floats to Hollywood

It all started at Tales of the Cocktail. On a sticky New Orleans night at that raucous annual bartenders' convention, Giovanni Martinez had his first taste of Chartreuse ice...

Pouring on Paris

Francophile cocktails at Pour Vous

It's the lingering question of the Los Angeles cocktail avant-garde: Where to next? The answer isn’t simply the name of a would-be bar, but the era that the bar evokes, the...

Cheers to Glass

Eagle Rock Brewery's new bottled beers

Eagle Rock Brewery is a permanent fixture of many a tap lineup around Los Angeles. Served at hipster dives, museums and craft-beer bars alike, the Glassell Park brewery’s...