Health & Fitness

On Repeal Day in December 5th, 1933, Prohibition, otherwise known as the great experiment, ended and America was free to consume alcohol once again.  And we’ve been celebrating ever since. Here’s where you can toast a glass today. https://www.yapa.la will be offering the following today from 6pm – 2am at the bar to honor the passing of the 21st Amendment: $5 Petit Punch and $8 Prohibition Era Cocktails: Coconut Cocktail Coconut Grove at Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Pineapple   Brown Derby Cocktail Billy Wilkerson’s Vendome Club on Sunset Blvd Bourbon, Grapefruit, Honey   Hi-Ho Cocktail Hi Ho Club, Hollywood & Highland Old Tom Gin, White Port, Orange Bitters   The Vendome Cocktail Billy Wilkerson’s Vendome Club on Sunset Blvd Gin, Dubo...

An impassioned team of some of L.A.’s top chefs converged on Jill Davies’ The Mar Vista on Monday night to celebrate the life of visionary chef Joe Miller, who passed away at the end of October at the age of 60. Miller opened the Michelin awarded Joe’s Restaurant in September 1991 and established himself as one of the best chefs in the country. Consistently rated by the Zagat Survey as a top 10 restaurant in Los Angeles, it’s served Santa Monica and the Abbot Kinney area of Venice for 24 years. Joe’s Restaurant first opened in 1991, a landmark on Abbot Kinney in Venice, receiving rave reviews throughout its 24-year history. He grew the business from a small neighborhood restaurant to an award-winning, Michelin-starred restaurant and  was a launching pad for many of the chefs in...

It’s just minutes past noon but already the San Fernando Valley sun blinds rather than illuminates, giving the air a strange, pearly yellow sheen. The heat is immobilizing and yet the line outside the Taqueria Jerez restaurant in Panorama City’s Plaza del Valle only seems to grow. Every table in the outdoor seating area is taken and those waiting for orders at the popular restaurant stand patiently under slivers of nearby shade sails. Two men in cowboy hats and Wrangler jeans come by to serenade diners with guitar music.  Poncho’s Cemita Atomica (Courtesy Poncho’s Taqueria) The scene is typical for Plaza del Valle, a lively “community plaza” that feels like a mini Valley mash-up of Olvera Street and Santee Alley, minus the oppressive crowds. Filled with small food stalls, cloth...

Following its Christmas in July event, Christmas-inspired pop-up Blitzen’s gives Here and Now another merry makeover. The bar in downtown’s Arts District, which opened last year, features seasonal drinks that are a nod to both Christmas and Hanukkah — and a little Mean Girls, too — with names like You Go Glenn Cocoa (hot chocolate, rum, chartreuse, Mr. Black), Get Blitzen’d (tequila, fino, sweet vermouth, lemon, falernum, prosecco) and Put on Your Yarmulke (Monkey Shoulder, Manischewitz, grapefruit cordial, allspice dram, aquafaba, lime and bitters). Put on your Yarmulke with Put On Your Yarmulke with Monkey Shoulder, Manischewitz, grapefruit cordial, allspice dram, Aquafaba and lime (Courtesy of Here and Now) The menu also offers such food specialties as poutine and latkas. If that’s not ...