Alex Day | Partner, Proprietors LLC
A co-founder of Proprietors LLC, a Los Angeles-based bar consulting firm, Alex Day has had a hand in creating some of the country's best watering holes. Aside from their long list…
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
Daily News: Brewing Beer on the Moon, The Origins of Thai Food in British Pubs
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - The new menu at LA's Honeycut offers 19 cocktails, each inspired by a different modern artist. - Lucky Peach traces the…
- story: Chloe Frechette
Bartender’s Choice: “Fruity, But Not Too Sweet”
In "Bartender's Choice," we challenge some of our favorite bartenders with a drink order, and see what they come up with. This round, they take on something "fruity, but not…
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Honeycut’s Cosmo
Honeycut's late-night variation on the classic Cosmo.
- story: Bianca Prum
- photo: Daniel Krieger
The Ritual of the Shift Drink: LA’s Honeycut
The hallowed ritual of the shift drink may take a different form at every bar, but it inevitably serves the same purpose: letting the staff exhale at the end of…
- story: Garrett Snyder
- photo: Dylan + jeni
Can the Mojito’s Reputation Be Saved?
The mojito has an image problem. Drew Lazor on the rise and fall of one of Cuba's most famous drinks, from Hemingway favorite to club cliché, and the crew of…
- story: Drew Lazor
- photo: Daniel Krieger
How Cocktail Bars Are Borrowing Each Others’ Style
From iconic floors to signature glassware, the same bar design elements are popping up around the world thanks to traveling bartenders who look to their peers for inspiration. Robert Simonson…
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Dylan + jeni
Wine Shots Are Served at LA Wine Raves
Maxwell Leer and Adam Vourvoulis, two guys in the LA wine scene, want to give wine more street cred. Munchies reports on their recent Wine Rave, a glow-stick-adorned party where 98-point wines…
- story: Janet Lee
The LA Cocktail Lab Fueling America’s Best Bars
Alex Day, one of the minds behind a handful of NYC and LA bars, works in a cocktail lair outfitted like something from Willy Wonka's factory.
- story: Jennifer Cacicio
- photos: Dylan + Jeni
What’s Behind the Cocktail World’s Obsession with Fireball?
To the surprise of purists, Fireball is beginning to wriggle out of its bro-shot shackles and into unexpected territory: the craft cocktail bar. Drew Lazor on what's behind the highbrow…
- story: Drew Lazor
- photo: Stephanie Barto
