Santa Barbara: Honor Bar You know what you should do during the 2 hours between a wedding ceremony at one gorgeous Santa Barbara location and a wedding reception at another gorgeous Santa Barbara location? Obviously, the answer is to swing by Honor Bar in downtown Montecito. Again, how...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Cava Our West Coast (Cocktail) Swing continues this week with a 2 hour drive to Santa Barbara. Don't get me wrong, spring on the East Coast is nothing short of breath-taking, but spring is also a bit finicky; on rainy days like...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Otium, LA Of the 8 (yes, 8) cocktail bars that we visited during our trip to So Cal, Otium, the new restaurant and cocktail lounge at the Broad Museum, was by far our favorite. When we arrived--straight from the airport, at 11pm, on...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Whisper House, Clarement Claremont, oh Claremont. It's hard not to love this little town. If you go there, you'll be equally charmed by their Spanish style cottages, drooping willow trees, and store-lined streets. You momentarily forget you're in the thick of the Inland...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Areal, Santa Monica Next on our West Coast (Cocktail) Swing of LA cocktail spots is Areal, on Main Street in Santa Monica. If you live in LA, then my guess is a large inviting patio, stringed lights, and live acoustic guitar on...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Goldie's, Hollywood We're recapping the best and brightest of L.A. cocktail bars, a West Coast (cocktail) Swing if you will, and today we travel to Goldie's in Hollywood. (technically Goldie's is right in between West Hollywood--aka "WeHo"--to the North, Beverly Hills to...
West Coast (Cocktail) Swing: Rose Cafe, Venice Today we kick off our series, the West Coast (Cocktail) Swing. The Left Coast is not the right coast to live on, BUT it holds it own with its glorious weather, laid back atmosphere, and abundance of healthy-living vibes (the...
The Blue Jeans Ball + Your Easter Cocktail Every year, the Capital Area Food Bank throws a tasting gala called The Blue Jeans Ball to raise money to 'take hunger off the map.' This year, Union Kitchen hosted a pre-ball cocktail hour and asked us to...
Drink of the Week: The Jackson The second author being welcomed at the PEN/Faulkner cocktail reception was Mitchell S. Jackson, author of The Residue Years, a novel that shows a much different side of Portland, Oregon, from Portlandia. Being a critically acclaimed new author, he, like Jamison--it...
Drink of the Week: The Jamison For the PEN/Faulkner event we mentioned yesterday, along with a drink in honor of Faulkner himself we designed one for each of the two featured authors. Today's drink is named after Leslie Jamison. Neither of us has read any of Jamison's work, though a...