New Cocktail: Voodoo Economics (2.0)
Yeah the original version of this bevvie, originally posted here, never made it off the chopping block and onto the menu. Not sure why. I get nervous sometimes and think things aren’t good when they are and vice versa. Sometimes I taste something and like it then the next day it’s ho hum, hum drum,…
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New Cocktail: Voodoo Economics (2.0)
Yeah the original version of this bevvie, originally posted here, never made it off the chopping block and onto the menu. Not sure why. I get nervous sometimes and think things aren’t good when they are and vice versa. Sometimes I taste something and like it then the next day it’s ho hum, hum drum,…
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Liquor Town
On my way to work and on the return home I drive by good old Liquor Town on La Brea. It’s a stretch just off the 10 freeway along an odd, tangled and interesting thoroughfare sprinkled with other places such as Teddy’s, Garu’s, Century Liquor, Sunshine Liquor, and my personal favorite, Grand Prize. For whatever…
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Farmer’s Market Loot: 9/14/23
Oh yes, sports fans. The golden goose, the old purple sack with the golden, gooey center, the unverified G.O.A.T. seasonal ingredient for cocktails. I bring you, the passion fruit. I know little to nothing about these little suckers aside from the well known fact that they’re expensive, somewhat annoying to work with, and oh so…
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Rejection
The Seasonal Bar and the bartender behind it has suffered a bit of a blow to its ego this morning in the form of a rejection letter from a perspective publisher. The second this year but one that I thought was so very close. The company, Chelsea Green, is based out of both England and…
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Notes on the Boulevardier
A wave of the hand, your Negroni turns into something similar but altogether different, and the punter in front of you is dumbfounded as to how you could have created something so ethereal and delicious. Yes, we all remember our first boulevardier. Mine was at Rustic Canyon many years ago when the shine and hue…
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The Days of Landscraping
If you’re old enough, the common conversation opener during today is “What were you doing the day it happened?” On 9/11 I was out with my buddy, Zipper, mowing the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) out on Prim Road in Colchester, VT. Just now I looked back at the location on Google maps to sort of…
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New Cocktail: Cholo Shogun
I may have come up with a new cocktail as well as a fresh movie franchise. Here’s the tagline: A former gang member, after morally failing to go through with a murderous initiation ritual, flees to another sector of Los Angeles, and while he’s in hiding, meets a retired former leader of a covert military…
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Old Cocktail: Okie Dokie Artichokie
This one’s for Tim, who asked for “Something bitter and stirred” last night, then he came over and asked what I gave him because he loved it so much but to be a bit of a shit and create some suspense, I didn’t tell him. So here you go, young man. Cynar is the star…
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Restaurant Review: Kuya Lord
I moved to swanky ass Hancock Park. Yes, far, far away from the digs in good old Santa Monica. Thanks to my red headed stepchild guardian angel, Vayu, I landed the Holy Grail job as a building manager. A couple hours of extra work a day in exchange for paying no monthly rent. A better…
The Aging Bartender 