On the most recent Eat LA on Off-Ramp, we focused on LOUD—places where the food’s good, the décor is smashing, but the noise level is on a par with Runway 24 at LAX. Does too much sound ruin an otherwise good meal? Or does it make it even better? And how do restaurateurs deal with [...]
Need meets speed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel tomorrow, Sunday, November 13th at Speed Rack, a national, all-female, speed bartending competition. From 3 to 7 p.m., 16 of L.A.’s best lady bartenders will compete for the title of So Cal’s fastest female cocktail slinger and raise funds for breast cancer charities while they shake and stir rounds of cocktails [...]
This week’s EatLA/Off-Ramp collaboration took place in a capacious booth at South Pasadena’s Barkley, a happy-hour fave of host John Rabe’s, even though he’s a few decades younger than the average regular. Why? For generously poured, $3 well cocktails (nothing muddled or infused, mind you) with a free daily nosh, perhaps cheese-drenched nachos. What’s not [...]
No bones about it, the Tar Pit’s just-announced happy hour menu of drinks and snacks might ease your work-to-play transition beautifully. The sleek ’30s-supper-club-style bar-with-food, opened about six months ago by Campanile’s Mark Peel and Jay Perrin, offers a small selection of $6 classic cocktails (about half price) and a revolving “Aperitivo of the Week” [...]
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