FROM PERKS
The secret ingredient to making any cocktail or whiskey pour taste better isn’t an ingredient at all. It’s a hunk of professional-grade metal that the pros use to make flawlessly round ice spheres, designed by the booze maestros at Cocktail Kingdom. And we got you 22% off of it. Hope you can keep a secret.
SLICE PRINCIPALS
Brooklyn’s in the house. More specifically, Roberta’s Pizza is back in Culver City for a three-week run, serving six wood-fired pies like the honey-and-soppressata-laced Bee Sting. Welcome Roberta’s. You can sit winter out with us anytime.
AW, SHUK
Mama always said: hang out around Santa Monica pop-ups named Shuk and wind up with shawarma chicken wings and brisket rendang tagine. But honestly, the only way for you to achieve true independence is to try it for yourself.
AUSTIN POWER
Sit the ugly sweater party out this year and attend a handsome boot party at Row DTLA with Austin’s Helm instead. They’ll pour drinks, entertain you with live music and take 20% off their leather goods and boots. Texans can be super nice.
PEARL’S JAM
Speaking of Texas, Pearl’s BBQ is now serving on weekends out of an Airstream trailer in Downtown and becoming a daily destination for Angus brisket, beef short ribs, brisket sausage and pie next week. And it’s from Texas, too. Just in case that needed clarifying.
PEOPLE WILL TACO
Taco Tuesday on top of the Peninsula. What a bewildering age to live in. This is happening in the hotel’s Roof Garden with handmade tortillas full of such life-affirming substances as pollo pibil, chimichurri camarones, octopus and asada, plus a whole, grilled-daily catch. Tacos have done a lot for Tuesdays.
WAR AND PEACE
Courtesy of one of these two Star Wars-inspired tours, in Ireland and Croatia. You’re also going to need some holiday party outfits—here are three surefire winners. Finally, we’ve made a convincing case that Gary Oldman is our greatest living actor. Not sure what you’ll need that for…
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.
