A Two-Story Poolside Bar With Tropical Drinks

A Two-Story Poolside Bar With Tropical Drinks
Plus, a Bloody Mary Fight and a Memorial Day Cookout From Dominique Ansel
By Hadley Tomicki

Wednesday

FROM PERKS

            Day-Drinking Season Is Back. Related: This.

The one thing that’s inevitable this Memorial Day Weekend and beyond: day-drinking. The one thing that’s
preventable: hangovers. You know, those things that make seeing lights or hearing sounds unbearable?
Skip all that by taking an Over EZ before or during your drinking. Then go eat brunch or
something.

Friday

GJUSTA FRIEND

            Gjelina: Now Knee-Deep in the Housewares Game

Gjelina is no longer content just being your mushroom toast and confit wild rabbit connect. So now you’ll
find it holed up beside Silver Lake’s Mohawk Men, slinging its own ceramic bowls and cups, linen aprons,
gift boxes and bedding. To repeat: Gjelina offers bedding now.

Saturday

VIVA LA VEGAN

            Look, There's Donut IPA and a Shake Shack Special

Things to Look for at Eat Drink Vegan on Saturday:—The donut-IPA and
IPA-donut-burger collaborations involving Modern Times.
—Heretofore unseen vegan Shake Shack burgers.
—The country’s biggest craft soda festival.
—A CBD Village.
—Hard proof that vegans party.

SATURDAY BLOODY SATURDAY

            25 Bloody Marys. Only One Will Survive.

MiniBar is bringing together 25 bars and restaurants (Redbird, Kali, Hearth & Hound and Cole’s, among
them) to crown one creator of the city’s best Bloody Mary. You’ll go, eat some tacos from Salt’s Cure, then
let the drinking begin. There are judges, too, in case you can’t do all 25.

Sunday

RICK FLAIR

            A Semi-Tropical Downtown Cocktail Situation With Real Water

Rick’s is a two-story pool house behind Hotel Figueroa just yearning to serve you tropical punch, Mai Tais
and daiquiris concocted by Employee’s Only’s famed barkeeps. If only the sun would cooperate. Stupid,
life-sustaining sun.

Monday

ROOM WITH A CUE

            Oh, Just a Southern Cookout With Dominique Ansel

Dominique Ansel. A name synonymous with slow-cooked pastrami brisket, hot sauce, mac-and-cheese,
salt-and-pepper short ribs, pulled pork and grilled spatchcock. At least, it might be after the French
chef’s big Memorial Day barbecue. Until then, free your mind.

What Else Is New

FOR THE WIN

            This New App Lets You Call the Plays for a Real Football Game

Oh, and if you call them correctly, it lets you win real money, too. HBO’s flaccid new
adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451, begs the question: does
Fahrenheit 451 even matter, anymore? Last but not least, we should talk about “brie-ing.”
Apparently, it’s this new trend where bougie middle-aged women stuff ecstasy into wheels of brie…

Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.

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