The Cocktail Moment In L.A.

The current issue of the L.A. Weekly features a guide to the Los Angeles cocktail scene by Pulitzer-prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold. Of the current cocktailian Renaissance, Gold writes:

The Cocktail Moment brings drinking from its Mannerist period, home to Jell-O shots and Slippery Nipples, sickly sweet cosmopolitans and chocolatinis, to a crisp neoclassic period, prepared by bartenders who revere old manuals by Harry Craddock, Jerry Thomas and David Embury; who prepare punches and shrubs and fizzes; who strive to caress the taste of the rare and artisanal rye whiskies and aromatic gins and old rums they adore rather than disguise them with sticky fruit.

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