My great grandfather, Emil, owned a steakhouse named “The Red Chimney” in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s. It is easy to imagine what it looked like–red leather banquettes, a long, dark wood bar and rooms filled with smoke. The men would be dressed in suit and ties, the women would have boldly printed [...]
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Here it is friends–the 350. This is our house cocktail, invented and thoroughly tested by me and Big D. This is not an old recipe, since St. Germain is fairly new, but is based on an old idea…the magical cocktail hour. Relax and enjoy one tonight. The 350 Ingredients 1/4c gin [...]
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My Grandma Marion used to have happy hour every day. Sometime around 5pm the adults would get a nice, stiff cocktail, the kids would get Shirley Temples and we would sit around with a bowl of salted nuts, watch the sunset and sip our drinks. Lately I’ve been forcing myself to stop–actually just stop the [...]
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