"Bursting with options from breweries to cocktail lounges to coffeehouses, this book has up-to-the-minute options, with the recent publication date of November 14th… For a true night on the town, Drink serves up routes for bar crawls in neighborhoods like Koreatown or Long Beach, where you can walk your way into a completely drunken state without fear of reprisal.”
— LA Weekly Squid Ink

"Drink: Los Angeles includes more than 500 listings for great booze and juice bars, beer taprooms, wine stores, coffee houses, even boba shops. What you won't find: chain shops and eateries, and places that suck. They prefer to simply focus on the good and ignore the bad." — KPCC (NPR)

“The book is so good that it gives the barfly not just one but several reasons to toast its presence. First, its design: Gorgeous, simple, expertly laid out, carefully selected typefaces and graphic prompts. But also the little black and red semi-hardcover was built to fit into the hip pocket of a pedestrian on a pub crawl, and so couldn’t be more practical. The writing — and editing, overseen by Prospect Park founder and boss Colleen Dunn Bates — is of the highest order: Clear, informative, striking just the right tone of fun and frolic along with directions and criticism.”
—Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star-News

For the companion book, Eat: Los Angeles:

"We would follow this guide into hell" — Long Beach Press-Telegram

"So hyper-local it instantly claims a place in die-hard Angeleno's hearts" — Los Angeles Times

"I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure" — John Rabe, host of KPCC's #1 weekend show, Off-Ramp

Vorwort
Local PR campaign to major media outlets that have covered Eat: Los Angeles
Promotion via Eat: Los Angeles's extensive Twitter, website, and Facebook platforms
Possible regular radio gig on KPCC (NPR), which used to host regular Eat: LA segments
Launch event featuring some of LA's best drink purveyors
Social media promotion via the several contributing editors, all of whom are respected LA food-and-drink journalists with their own platforms

Autorentext
Colleen Dunn Bates is the editor of Eat: Los Angeles, a longtime restaurant critic for Westways, the former editor of the Gault Millau gourmet guides, and the founding editor of Prospect Park Books.

Klappentext

The essential, curated pocket guide to LA drinking, from beer gardens to coffeehouses, cocktail bars to organic juicers.

Zusammenfassung

Created by the folks behind the very successful Eat: Los Angeles guidebook, Drink: Los Angeles is a nifty pocket guide to the best pubs, cocktail bars, coffeehouses, wine bars, dive bars, tea houses, juiceries, boba spots, and neighborhood watering holes across Los Angeles. Smart, curated, honest, and reliable, it's the must-have accessory for every Angeleno. Includes the 12 best crawls, including two Metro crawls..

Leseprobe
Seemingly overnight, Los Angeles has become a fantastic drinking city. We’ve had great eating for decades, but no one would have put us first in the beverage department, except perhaps for horchata. Seattle had better coffee, Portland had better beer bars, Boston had better pubs, San Francisco and Chicago had better neighborhood bars, and New York had better cocktail lounges. Boy, have times changed.

This explosion in good drinking inspired us to take the Eat: Los Angeles concept to a new place and create this curated pocket guide to find the best drinking across the greater L.A. area, whether you’re thirsty for a boba or a beer. This is by no means a comprehensive guide—that would be so massive you couldn’t lift it. Drink: Los Angeles is, however, a broad-ranging book, in terms of geography, styles, and price points. Most of all, it’s a discerning one—we don’t have every single karaoke bar in Koreatown, for instance, but we point you toward our favorites. Our goal is to give you interesting, thoughtful, tasty choices in every category across L.A. County.

Here you’ll find the Why, What, and Who for L.A.’s best beverage sources, from cocktail bars and coffeehouses to craft breweries and cold-pressed juiceries, along with a bunch of great bar crawls, where you can imbibe without driving. Slainte!

Inhalt
Bar Crawls
Bars & Cocktail Lounges
Wine Bars
Breweries & Tap Rooms
Coffee, Tea & Boba
Juice Bars
Retailers
Index by Region & Neighborhood
Index