Food
Out to Lunch (or Dinner)!! Where Do You Go? Here’s a HAUTE Place to Hit in So. Bay/Long Beach. The Federal Bar “Smokes” as the New HAUTE Place to Go!
July 16, 2013 | 
Author Drive up Pine Avenue from Ocean Blvd and look at all the vintaage buildings, particularly after you cross First Street. Pine is rife with great restaurants and it’s spreading across to the East Village. What you might not notice is this demure building set back from the street a bit– quite large actually. It was once a bank that close and then morphed into a high-end eatery called Madison. Madison soon died due to very pricey (but yummy) food but the space was quite large. It was huge, gorgeously art deo/vintage in feel and yet cold.
Fast forward several years and voila- a new spot within the former bank called thoughtfully THE FEDERAL BAR — a sister store to the one in NoHo. (North Hollywood for visitors). This is one fine building. The huge space that dwarfed Madison and it’s diners has been morphed into several spaces without losing the best part of the visual — the ceilings, the space and what they did to carve up the space created group areas, lounges and they are even taking over the vault to turn it into something special.
YourPopPsychic.com’s Marie Gives You Tips on Mercury Retrograde Survival: The Chocolate Cure!! Guest Blog Post!
You have seen Marie Bargas on this blog before (many many times!) but this time she’s giving us a series of posts about Mercury Retrograde. It’s not going to be pretty but she has some tips and tricks up her sleeve that she is sharing to help us all get through this time. It’s a time to chill despite your cell, computer, laptop, tablet, car, phone, bluetooth– everything and anything electrical goes wonky. Read the rest of this entry »
Give Your Holiday Weekend a New Twist with Zing Red Velvet Vodka’s New Spokesperson, Chris Brown and a HOT NEW Cocktail!!
Singer Chris Brown was recently named ZING Vodka’s Creative Director last week. He recently came out with “The O.G. Breezy” which is a favorite of Brown’s!
Perfect HOLIDAY Treats: LifeKraze’s Cooking with Cathy Baron: How to Make Banana Split Bites!
Love love LOVE this. If you don’t know LifeKraze, get on board– particularly THIS WEEK because it’s more summer than anything else. Cmon! This site is full of fun people, fun challenges and fun ways of accomplishing things that you want –or need– (as in cleaning up my desk yet again!!) to do!
Fourth of July Gets Hot & Spicey with Alacran Tequila Cocktails!! ROCK IT!!
Get goofy or get great– it doesn’t matter if you are working with Alarcran Tequila. EVERYTHING will turn out fine– and tasty. These cocktails look pretty simple but they will taste pretty darn good. So don’t worry how complex it is or not– it’s how it tastes that matters!!
Get Smart & Sassy with Hot New Cocktails from Cliff’s Edge. Get Ready for a Thrill Ride of Cocktails!
Cliff’s Edge might be new to you– or maybe not. Either way, it doesn’t matter because you can bring some of the “juice” from Cliff’s Edge to your home courtesy of these lovely cocktails. I won’t say you will get it exactly the same as Cliff’s Edge Mixologist Richard Swan will – but it’s worth either the drive or the trial run to get these things right! Given that there are hand-crafted ingredients and no proportions given, you might want to make the drive to Silverlake for this one at some point this week. Make sure you eat too. GREAT food!
Holiday Cocktails Perfect for Any Occasion featuring Grey Goose Vodka.
Grey Goose Vodka is a super-premium vodka and makes some pretty smooth cocktails. Here are a few recipes that you might want to try out.
