Drink
The Best Hot Chocolate, Champurrado, and Seasonal Warm Drinks in Los Angeles
Rounding up the best seasonal warm drinks across Los Angeles. From champurrado, frothy drinking chocolate, to a fermented hot drink named atol shuco, here's a list of spots to keep you warm as the cold trickles into the city.
Nine L.A. Bars To Eat and Drink Your Blues Away While Watching the Election
These are the watering holes for anyone looking to hang on every minute of the election madness to come, leaning on the shoulders of similarly minded strangers or raging at people you don't agree with.
Five Classic L.A. Bars For Watching the World Series With Your Fellow Dodger Lovers
Every bar in L.A. will be milking the World Series for your hard-earned drinking dollars now that the Dodgers are in it to win it.But what about places that bleed blue all year round?
Four Places to Eat and Drink Your Way Through Mexican Independence Weekend In L.A. (and Long Beach)
Despite L.A. being the home of the second largest population of Mexicans—that counts Mexican-Americans as well, by the way—after Mexico City, it has never been known to go as hard for actual Mexican Independence Day on September 16th as it does for Cinco de Mayo. But these four places are going all out!
16 Master Mezcaleros Are Gathering in L.A. for A Once-In-A-Lifetime Tasting, Including Two Oaxacan Legends
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to pull this off again ever in my life," Ivan Vasquez says. "To pull producers from northern, central, and southern regions of Mexico—including sotol and raicilla [distillers]—under one roof."
This Torrance Brewery Turns 6,000 Pounds of The Juiciest Peaches in California To Wild-Fermented Beer
Cellador's fruited ales takes anywhere from six months to two years to make, and the painstaking process produces some of the wildest-tasting beer in Los Angeles, with more in common with a natural wine and sourdough bread than with an IPA.
13 L.A. Destinations For Tejuino, Raspados, and Ice Cream To Keep You Cool While Riding Metro This Summer
Stay cool this summer with tejuino from Compton, DTLA raspados that have gone viral on TikTok, and a true Zapotec tepache in Mid-City, all accessible when you ride Metro.
California Mandates Drug-Test Kits at Bars and Nightclubs Starting July 1st. Here’s What to Know
Roofies have been used as accomplices to sexual assault, human trafficking, theft, and other crimes. Bars and nightclub owners hope that providing drug-test kits for their drinks may help their customers feel safe and return more often despite a general dip in the consumption of alcohol in California.
Try L.A. TACO’s First Natural Wine. Available at TACO MADNESS, This Saturday Only!
L.A. TACO is proud to announce its very first natural wine! Two, to be exact: a 100% Pinot Noir we are naming "Salsa Roja" and a 100% effervescent Barbera named "Salsa Rosa." Both made with love and minimal intervention by our friends at Vin de California in East Pasadena.
With Over 100 Non-Alcoholic Beverages and 3,000 Rare Records, ‘De La Playa’ Opens In Highland Park
“There are enough alcoholic bars in the neighborhood; we just wanted to create an alternative space for people to listen to music and chill,” says one of the three co-owners who are also respected local D.J.s. born and raised in L.A.