Ingredients: Serves 1 • ¼ cup VOM FASS Ginger-Grape Balsamic Vinegar with Lemon • sparkling water • 6 sour cherries • 1 sugar cube • 1-2 tsp. fresh lime juice • ¼ cup VOM FASS Gin or VOM FASS Barrel Mellowed Gin • 2 T. VOM FASS Sour Cherry Liqueur • ice and lime wedge…
When it comes to making your bar or restaurant stand out from the rest, many times it involves a signature item – like a cocktail. But if it’s going to have your name on it and be associated with your brand, it has to be perfect. Here is some more on the importance of making…
Suzanne Goin, Caroline Styne and David Lentz Invite Culinary Friends to Cook for Kids’ Cancer Cures at 6th Annual Event LOS ANGELES, CA — Chefs from across the country are set to return to Los Angeles for the 6th Annual L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade culinary cookout benefiting Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and the fight against childhood cancer on Saturday, September 12, 2015 from…
I first reported on the restaurant at the The Beverly Garland Hotel in early 2014. At that time, Chef Warren Schwartz was taking advantage of the planned renovation of the hotel and restaurant to do a little experimenting. Under the aptly named Warren’s Blackboard, he turned out an array of seasonal daily specials that quickly…
Culver City, CA: With the exciting announcement of Executive Chef Brendan Collins and Chef de Cuisine Ali Haji taking over the kitchen at The Corner Door, the Culver City mainstay has undergone a culinary transformation with its new dining menu, highlighting the ever changing flavors of the season. From the opening of The Corner Door…
In a very simple recipe listed on the back label of Compari I discovered the perfect Negroni. If you are a gin fan this is a killer cocktail, not too sweet at all, and very pretty too: Ingredients: One ounce Gin (I’m a Hendricks fan for the juniper all gins have but also the other…
New York’s popular LUCKYRICE Festival presented by Bombay Sapphire East heads west for the summer with the LUCKYRICE Los Angeles Feast at Create Nightclub in Hollywood on July 30 followed by the LUCKYRICE San Francisco Feast at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco on August 7. This is the sixth anniversary for the LUCKYRICE Festival,…
I had bought several “brown spirits” to round out my bar in my quest to learn to make more cocktails. One of the spirits, Buffalo Trace bourbon, seemed to cry out for an Old Fashioned. So, here is the recipe I used, my changes are in italics. I shook all of the ingredients, sans ice,…
BAR LUBITSCH HEATS UP WITH SIX NEW MARKET COCKTAILS FOR SUMMER The Forbidden Paradise, Rodchenko, Garden of Alla, Barrel Aged Negroski, Bar Flower and The Flame are Created for Summer Sipping BAR LUBITSCH, West Hollywood’s neighborhood gem, tucked into the Russian District on Santa Monica Boulevard, is featuring six new summer cocktails – Forbidden Paradise, Rodchenko,…
La Cosecha Bar + Restaurant adds barrel-aged cocktails, unique drinks and wines to its trend-setting menu May 12, 2015 (Paso Robles, CA) The already-progressive menu, wine list and craft cocktail programs at Paso Robles’ La Cosecha Bar + Restaurant recently kicked up a notch with the addition of several new items including barrel-aged cocktails designed…