Photo by Clearlight1971

Ye Coach and Horses bar on Sunset Blvd. has lost its lease and, after 73 years in Hollywood, is facing eviction at the end of July by the property owner, the Samuel French Bookstore.

The bar owner and management are fighting the property owner, though it is not clear what recourse they may have. Eater LA has a few details about a rent increase and the old lady that owns it.

Feel free to share your memories of Ye Coach & Horses, fond or otherwise, below.

Visit their Facebook page for the latest.

Alright. Wrapping up the week here, waiting for Oscar to take the decks and spin the new Dead Weather Sea of Cowards LP online here and getting a little thirsty. It is Derby weekend after all, so let’s see if we can whip up a Mint Julep from what we have on hand:

»continue reading A Mint Julep Recipe: Losanjealous Break Room Bar Concoctions

FTC Compliance Disclosure: Some Newcastle rep wanted to give us free beer to drink during the Superbowl. In turn we decided to write this post about the free beer, which came in wee Newcastle kegs. They even sent a couple of wee Newcastle pub towels our way. Why not enjoy a pub-style pint of America’s No.1 imported ale fresh off the tap of a Newcastle DraughtKeg today. The five-liter mini-keg serves up to 10 pints of Newcastle Brown Ale, offering a perfect pour and incredible smoothness.

It’s sleek, portable, recyclable and perfect for any Super Bowl party but you can only find it in select cities including Los Angeles. Check it out at local grocery stores like Albertson’s for $22.99. Below, verbatim txtscript from the inboxes of your very own Losanjealous Editorial staff, pre-Superbowl…

From: Losanjealous Ryan
To: Victor, Ron
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 9:02:16 AM
Subject: Superbowl

Any plans? Any desire to get together?
We have 20 pints of Newcastle Brown to plow through among other things, lest you forget. Recommend chill at least 10 hours prior to serving.

From: Ron
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:00:05 -0800
To: Ryan, Victor

I’m watching at my place and you guys are more than welcome to join.
Newcastle will be a must and it is definitely going to chill at least 10 hours prior to serving.

From: Ryan
Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM
To: Ron, Victor

That’s what I like to hear. I’m there.
Victor, no interest in the game or you have plans in Vegas during that time?

»continue reading Newcastle Brown Ale DraughtKeg Debuts in LA

Beer on tap for Burger King’s Whopper Bars [Mississippi Clarion Ledger]

Don’t look for beer at conventional Burger Kings. That’s not in the plans. But more Whopper Bars — which offer an assortment of burgers, toppings and beer — could be on tap in tourist hot spots such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, says Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King North America.

A brewski at the new Whopper Bar — served in special aluminum bottles to keep them extra cold — fetches $4.25. Or, order beer as part of a Whopper combo and your bill will be $7.99 — roughly $2 more than the same combo meal with a fountain drink.

–I have this GREAT idea for a bar!
–What is it?
–One word: SKUNKS.
–Wha…?
–Well, not JUST skunks, but like 70′s trucker kitsch. And skunks.
–Wha…?
–Yeah, like Burt Reynolds, Dukes of Hazzard, CB radios, Schlitz, trucker hats, mustaches, all that kinda awesome stuff.
–Wait. So how do the skunks fit in again?
–Well, the skunks are mounted up on the wall, but it’s like the rear end of the skunks only. And then we rig this air horn to this contraption that when the bartender pulls it, it shoots steam out the skunks anal glands, like they’re spraying the bar! But it’s only steam and doesn’t stink.
–I love it!
–I know, right?! No one will ever get tired of THAT!
 

Five Second Bar Review: Stinkers (Silver Lake) [here]

PHOTO by Ryan. Unidentified man at Dan Sung Sa, Koreatown, July 2005.

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Here we go. After hitting tacos, sandwiches and coffee, booze is the obvious next choice. We rattled off about 25 random spots to prime the pump and get the voting started. Of course preference of watering hole is one of the more subjective topics, so this poll especially is all about you adding your own picks in the comments below for us to stick in the poll. –Ed.

File under press releases that elicited many giggles this week:

Hello LosAnjealous-
Wanted to invite you to this event my client, Jenette Bras, is doing on 8/25. Jenette Bras is a luxury lingerie retailer that specializes in sizes D – K. The event is open to the public and there will be a live fittings with ample sized babes, free booze, a surprise giveaway, and more. Is this something you’d include on your blog? I’ve also included a release on the store FYI. Look forward to hearing from you.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hot August Night – Tuesday, August 25th 6 – 9PM
Come and cool off with chilled cocktails and hot jazz on the back patio, as we celebrate our first four months
Tuesday, August 25th 6 – 9PM
Jenette Bras
4308 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

BRA-FITTING DEMONSTRATIONS
ONE-NIGHT ONLY DISCOUNTS
LOVELY LADIES of appropriate amplitude modeling our LATEST LINGERIE
and introducing Jenette Bras’ signature summer cocktail:
the LAVENDER STRAP

So, yes! Be sure to turn out this evening for a live, in-person “mouth cocktail fitting” featuring your very own plus-sized, swollen, heavy-hanging Lavendar Strap: more than a mouthful, that one, any way it falls into the glass. Next, watch in stitches as I capture your profile – motorboating the verysame Lavendar Strap no less – with my mobile device, and casually upload it to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Losanjealous.com and your maternal grandmother’s inbox with surprising deftness, tagging your first name, your last name, your age, the cocktail’s name and potency level, the time of day and the name, purpose and precise geolocation of the “Size D – K” event right before I saunter off to the back patio. See you there.

» Jenette Bras: Size D-K (official site)

PHOTO: Crawford Morgan

HEADS UP
Grupo Fantasma @ Knitting Factory Fri 2/6
Grupo Fantasma @ Santa Monica Promenade Apple Store (presumably performing atop genius bar) Sat 2/7 (free!)

Dig that Latin Groove. I predict this one will be loud, raucous and full of mad energy. Just a prediction. These guys are nominated for a Grammy and everything – in fact, that’s why they’re in town. Never seen them live myself to my knowledge (he says, frantically shuffling thru New Orleans Jazzfest ’08 notes), but their music sounds like it will be one insane booty-shaking show. Send me an e-mail with your first and last name to get into the hat for a pair of tix.(UPDATE: Contest closed; winners will be notified Thursday.) I’ll be there. Look for the guy sprawled on the floor immediately following an ill-advised balcony dive. (That, or look for the guy five seconds prior to the dive; gradually talk him down with promises of more alcohol. Better.)

Did You Know?
SXSW attendees might recognize the band, photographed here inside what appears to be the Longbranch Inn, East Austin (one of the joints annually taken over by Vice). Pretty sure at least one reader recognizes this place.

Grupo Fantasma: Official Site | Myspace

If there’s one thing I know about hipsters in Silver Lake Echo Park with a little bit of green in the bank, it’s that they love finding new ways to spend their money. And what better way to spend it than on the classiest of all class-defining drinks, yep, you guessed it: wine.

The deal with City Sip is that they’re really laid back and unpretentious about what can possibly be called the most pretentious drink of all time (until Pitchfork comes out with its own PBR knock-off beer, that is). The ambiance of the place is pretty much exactly what you think the inside of a wine bar should look like—dark with soft lighting and Bon Iver on the stereo. »continue reading Notes on City Sip

Many people are fond of bashing LAX. While I’ve never bashed her per se, I will attest that she is early to bed, and she has her ups and downs. The downs, naturally, are considerably less steep with the aid of overpriced fermentation. So Then! Not a comprehensive list so much as it is a jumping off point, following are my personal favorite watering holes, whenever I find that I am suddenly spending more time than desired at the local airport. These recommendations are terminal-specific, so you won’t find the Sheraton or any of the other outlying Westchester oddities. Further, none of these joints require Admiral miles so you’re guaranteed to spend some quality time with your fellow plebes. Commoner.

»continue reading Where To Drink At LAX: The Losanjealous Thanksgiving Travel Primer

I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’ve done a straight-ahead bar review on these pages since June 2006, back when wayward contributor Annie mouthed off about the Spotlight and Bar 107. Drumroll, new bar just opened, here goes nothing.

WHAT I AM WRITING ABOUT
Stinkers Truck Stop

WHY IT IS NOTEWORTHY
Stinkaz (can I get informal here?) is themed as a truck stop, and it “soft opened” (hold – how does a bar “soft open” again? Further, isn’t liquor by definition “hard” ? .. ) last Thursday. Stinkahs has mounted skunk asses on the walls. The asses spray mist on your head while you drink. Stinkezs also has a CB apparatus and a terribly loud truck horn (warning). Apparently Stinkuz also has Stinkers Ale (or similar) but they were out when we visited last Monday. Stinkers is brought to you by the man behind Bigfoot Lodge, Little Cave and Saints and Sinners. You know…theme bars. Stinkers has also been Thrillisted, Eaten and Metromixed in the last week or two so I will be brief.

WHAT I AM WATCHING WHILE I AM WRITING THIS
The Replacements on HBOHD featuring Keanu Reeves, Pat Summerall and Gene Holy Jesus Would You Look At That Juicy Mustache Hackman. Exactly how in the Christ do movies like this get made!? More pressing, why am I all of 70 minutes deep?

»continue reading Five Second Bar Review: Stinkers (Silver Lake)

President George W. Bush approaches the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in a S-3B Viking jet Thursday, May 1, 2003. White House photo by Paul Morse.

Don’t forget to vote. (As if I needed to say it.) Also: January swearing-in dates and lame duck weeks aside, today is the last day that you will ever be able to get drunk in a Bush nation. Make it count. Drink like W before his 40th. Drink like Bush Senior is floating the tab. Like Cheney’s buying the shots and you don’t know who’s really behind it. Like Rummy’s forcing Jäger bombs down your throat. Take a thermos of Bloody Mary to the polling station. Knock back a few with your lunch. Keg stands would not be out of line. Today’s going to be big, whatever happens. Have fun out there.

» President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended (TWH)
» Mission Accomplished Debacle Recap (Wikipedia)

Have you ever wondered what might occur were the Losanjealous editorial staff to overindulge in sake while inside a museum? It keeps me up at night, too. Find out this May.

Fellow boozehounds and fans of lowriders, rejoice. Every year, the Little Tokyo Service Center throws a big fundraising party featuring an inordinate number of sakes for the imbibing and foodstuffs for the eating, all within the confines of a decidedly non-Asian-centric museum of note. Case in point: Last year’s gala featured Iron Chef Morimoto and Star Wars memorabilia at the Expo Center downtown. The year before that, the group invaded the Museum of Neon Art. This year’s event, entitled La Vida Sake, will take place May 22 (Thursday) at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire. More specifically it will take place during the lowrider exhibit, and while we typically take our lowriders with tequila, we’re exuberant for a valid excuse to collectively shift gears to sake for the evening. Plus, we have no choice but to applaud the LTSC for managing to neatly encapsulate the essential ingredients and flavors comprising Los Angeles, our fair city, within this one event: fund raising, alcohol, small portions, numerous cars and Wilshire Boulevard will all be simmered in a melting pot of cultural influences with serious Latino and Asian leanings. Voila!
»continue reading Win Tickets To La Vida Sake Now

4.38pm, April 25, Losanjealous, CA. DF blasts up the 2 onto the transverse side of the mighty San Gabriels and down into the vast expanse of suburbs and Armeniana that is the City of Glendale. Memories of recent slights by the Losanjealous higher-ups still linger. First: passed over for the big food-critic promotion in favor of outside appointment Georgia. Next: conspicuously left off the invite list to the Coachella Music Festival. I confronted LaVerne about this and he revealed the ugly truth: “DF,” he said, “Losanjealous is nothing if not a high-end tastemaker for the west coast’s cultural elite. And while we’re all amused by your antics, you know, getting stumble-bum drunk at roller derby bouts and all, you’re not exactly … classy.”

4.59pm. Still, I fume. Not classy? What a crock. I ooze class. It comes off me in waves. So for a couple days I asked around for a truly refined event that would allow DF to show off his sophisticated bona fides. The word came from an inside source: there’s lots of buzz about the Rosso Wine Shop in North Glendale, which hosts wine tastings where local oenophiles gather to taste of the grape. Perfect. Now I’ll show LaVerne. I’m gonna class the hell out of this wine tasting!
»continue reading A Classy Affaire: Wine Tasting @ Rosso Wine Shop, 4/25/08

12 April. 6.50pm. Historic Filipinotown, Losanjealous, CA. The Holy Feast of Spring Break, as Losanjealous readers undoubtedly know, is DF’s fave holiday. As I’m fond of saying, “Jesus didn’t die on the cross at Calvary for us NOT to get pants-shittingly drunk while scoping for honeys with our bros in South Padre (or, as the case may be, Cabo).” And this year, DF’s annual spring fling takes on a whole new twist as he has allocated one of the spots on his vernal-equinox-related tour to the Doll Factory in Historic Hi-Fi to witness the magical amalgam of allure and athleticism that is the LA Derby Dolls.

7.23pm DF rolls up to the Doll Factory where spring break promises to be in full effect. I’ve got all the essential gear: puka shell necklace; spray-on tan in tones of burnt umber; “Rock Out With Ya Cock Out” novelty T-shirt; videocamera to capture the flashings and the floozings and whatnot (later confiscated by un-fun rent-a-cops); and, most importantly, a state of abject, near-hallucinogenic drunkenness that I’ve been honing since my first extended meeting with one Senor Cuervo last Tuesday.
»continue reading Derby Girls Gone Wild: LA Derby Dolls @ the Doll Factory, 4/12/08