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The Pearl Pours a Brewski Brunch for San Diego Beer Week
The Pearl Hotel will toast to San Diego's Beer Week (November 6 to 15) with a poolside beer brunch on November 8 featuring suds from local artisan brewery AleSmith Brewing Co.
The beer brunch will have four brewski-and-eats stations at each corner of the pool. At one station, the Belgian-style Grand Cru will be paired with a smoked ham and roasted pear croque monsieur. Another will offer the Speedway Stout, an imperial stout with coffee, to complement the hazelnut French toast and Tahitian vanilla custard. Old Numbskull, a West Coast-style barleywine, will come with house-smoked bacon, sunnyside-up quail eggs and bird's next hash browns.
The last station will pour Anvil, the brewery's signature beer, to go with the raisin rum coffeecake.
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'Dive Bar' Wednesdays at The Bardessono Pool
Can’t afford even the low-season $300 a night rate at Yountville’s new eco-resort, Bardessono Hotel? Fear not. The exclusive resort opens up its guests-only rooftop pool to non-guests on Wednesday evenings from 6:00-9:00pm for its punny Dive Bar, so even Napa townies can enjoy the stunning mountain and vineyard views while enjoying a dip and a drink while DJ's spin tunes near the bar.
The secluded pool is usually open only to resort guests, who come to lie in piece and quiet in one of the screened off day-bed cabanas. Come Wednesday evening, though, anyone can stop by the rooftop cement pond, and they're encouraged to come in their bathing suits to take a dip between bar rounds, with drinks going for just $8 each. The resort even throws in complimentary valet parking. That way, everyone can enjoy the privileges of being a hotel guest without having to spend a night.
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Cocktails Are Cheap If You Make Them Yourself at The Cumberland
We’re liking Guoman Hotels’ "cold weather means booze" approach this winter. Last week they announced the launch of their charity cocktails at their four London hotels; this week, it’s the news that The Cumberland are starting up private mixology classes at their trendy Carbon Bar.
Hoxton Pony founder and BBC mixologist Andy Pearson is the man behind it again – he’s devised the classes and "trained the bar team" (though we hope they wouldn’t need much training, what with being professional cocktail mixers in the first place).
Anyway, sign up and they’ll whip through the history of cocktails over a Bellini, before letting you loose on eight cocktail recipes: four classic, four contemporary, including the gin-filled Park Lane, that’s launching this November in aid of Help for Heroes charity.
It costs £75 per head – which sounds like a pretty good for eight cocktails to us – and you’ll need six of you to book it. Available Tuesday to Saturday, day or night – they take place upstairs in the VIP area. To book, call bar manager Ben Martin on +44 207 479 5050.
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Got Tix to The World Series? They May Have Cost Less Than Your Hotel Room
The Yankees and The Phillies are set to square off in the 2009 World Series Championships on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium and tickets on Stubhub.com are starting out at nearly $300 a piece. That's definitely steep but if you're a fan, then money's no object. Your hotel room, however, is another issue.
Let's get to the good news first. If you're a lucky ticket holder, the Westin Times Square is offering a $50 credit in the hotel's Bar 10. Here's a look at what $50 will get you:
Yankees fans can snack on grilled sirloin sliders and crisp calamari fries, or throw back a few celebratory drinks in anticipation of their team’s win. Fans that really want to hit it out of the ballpark can opt for the Fall Unwind special, available in Bar 10 from 5 p.m. – 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Customers can sample the beer package, which includes a choice of four bottles of their favorite brews (Sam Adams, Budweiser, Bud Light, Miller Light and Coors light) and an order of select lounge fare, all for just $28.
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Finally, Ordering The Humble Pie At NYC's Standard Hotel Grill
As you may have noticed over the last year, we've got a serious thing for the newly-opened Standard Hotel NYC. We've done everything from sleep there to party there, and even walk the High Line below it.
But it was last week that we finally got a taste of the Standard when we had lunch at the Standard Grill, which only began serving meals other than dinner back in late August.
Now that the cold air has settled into New York and kicked out the fair weather friends and put the staff through the paces, we decided it was time to go and see if the grill really lived up to all the hype.
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Get Drunk for Charity at London's Guoman Hotels
We’ve had London hotels getting literary, arty, and now it looks like they’re getting a conscience. Guoman Hotels, which owns four in the centre of town – the Royal Horseguards, The Cumberland, Charing Cross and the Tower – have commissioned one of the UK’s top mixologists, Andy Pearson (co-founder of the ever-trendy Hoxton Pony), to create a new list of cocktails for their hotels. And 100% of the profits will go to charity.
The charities in question are The Household Cavalry’s Charitable Fund and Help for Heroes, both of which help injured British servicemen. And the drinks? There’s one for each hotel. The Cavalry Cocktail at The Royal Horseguards has port, cognac, Grand Marnier and burgundy (a recipe for a hangover if ever we heard one), and the Tower Cocktail (at the Tower Hotel, obvs) mixes Beefeater gin (Beefeaters live at the Tower of London next door, see?) with nutmeg and comes served in a jewellery box, like the Crown Jewels.
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Keep Walking to 'Scotchtober' at Willows Lodge
We hear the word "Rocktober," and we're instantly transported back to our Philly youth, when the 93.3 WMMR radio DJ's would belt it out with a reverb echo effect every chance they got. It kinda sucked, because October was (and still is) our favorite month, and the cheese factor of these overly schticky on-air personalities has stuck in our head for years. We'll get over it. Le sigh.
Instead of "Rocktober," some folks have, dare we say, more civilized visions of what this autumnal month means. For many, it's "Oktoberfest," a 16-day festival centered about consuming copious amounts of beer, schweinsbraten and sauerkraut. Oh yeah, and wearing sexy lace-up dirndls. But at Barking Frog at Willows Lodge in Woodinville (Seattle's answer to wine country, although most of the AVA's grapes are actually grown in Eastern Washington), it can only mean one, high-proof thing -- "Scotchtober."
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The Jane Hotel Ballroom is Closed for Now
The latest news in The Jane Hotel v. Neighbors and Pissy Dogs is that the ballroom has been closed down, after city officials raided the bar last week. We're hearing from the hotel that the space will re-open "in a few days" after some "tweaks" are made. However, Gothamist says the bar will be closed for several weeks. Whenever it does re-open, a maximum occupancy limit of 75 people may be enforced and only the front bar will be open, not the ballroom.
There may also be some tentative plans to introduce a light food service even though the real deal restaurant/cafe inside the hotel is not open. Either way, if you've booked your room at the Jane for for a New York City visit and were hoping to party with the modelizers and their prey beautiful people in the ballroom, you'll have to head on over to the Standard Hotel's tentatively-named Boom Boom Room just a few blocks away. Oh wait, you can't get in there either.
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Buy Champagne, Get a Free Night's Stay at the DC Sofitel
Few things make an ordinary evening sparkle quite like, well, good bubbly. (Not that we’re all that experienced in the realm of actual good-quality Champagne, mind you, but even the cheapo bottles of Andre always seemed to do the trick in college.)
So we imagine a nice bottle of Champagne would have the same effect on what might otherwise be a relatively ordinary — albeit, yes, fancypants — stay at the Sofitel in Washington, DC. The top-tier French hotel has paired with Champagne Pommery to inject DC with a double-dose of classic French luxury. Patrons of the hotel’s bar who purchase a $299 bottle of the Cuvée Louise 1998 Champagne will receive quite a nice reward: a free night’s stay at the hotel.
The offer fizzles Dec. 31 and is available with or without reservations (based on availability, obviously). Weekend rates for the next month at the Sofitel start anywhere from $175 (Halloween weekend) to $330 (tonight).
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The Ivy Hotel's Ultra Lounge Turns into a Wine Bar
San Diego's Ivy Hotel will unveil a new Ultra Lounge and Wine Bar on Oct. 1 to give you more and cheaper options to get tipsy off of vino.
Although the hotel's been promoting the "new Ultra Lounge and Wine Bar," it's not so much "new" as it is a shift in focus to wines. The Ultra Lounge didn't close for renovations or anything. Instead, 20 new WineStations were installed along orange walls in the ground-floor lounge.
The WineStations will pour 80 wines by the glass, allowing you three ways to get drunky-drunk: You can order "taste" portions at 1.5 oz. each, "half" glasses at 4 oz. and "full" glasses at 6 oz. Prices range from $1.76 for a taste of the 2007 Williamette Valley Riesling to a full glass of the 2004 Opus One for $28.47.
The taste option will allow oenophiles on a budget to sample some rare vintages for cheap, which is a departure for the luxury hotel, whose rooms run around $200 a night.
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Honor the Brave Ladies Who 'Stormed' The Sazerac at The Roosevelt New Orleans
Taken during the very first "stormin'" in 1949.
Some people go for Civil War re-enactments, some people prefer Jane Austen movies, but when it comes to historical fixes, we prefer the vintage booze that are making a comeback at hipster-frequented speakeasies across the country. That’s why we want to tell you about the upcoming “Stormin’ the Sazerac” event at the landmark Roosevelt New Orleans on Friday, September 25.
Back in the day, women were only admitted to the Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt on one day of the year: Mardi Gras (remember, this is New Orleans). Well, 60 years ago, a group of well-to-do New Orleans ladies decided they wanted a drink, and on September 25, 1949, they stormed the bar and demanded to drink. Their gambit paid off, and ever since, women have been admitted on the same basis as men.
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Renaissance Chicago Launches Soft Opening for Swanky Bar Novo
It looks like theWit's hot Roof bar has some competition. As part of the Renaissance Hotel's rebranding effort, the Renaissance Chicago Hotel had a soft opening for its new upscale Bar Novo on Sept. 17 and the lounge will post an official "open" sign on Oct. 1. And like any good business these days, the Bar even has its own Twitter page.
Formerly a stodgy cigar bar—hello, the Chicago smoking ban made cigar bars so 2007—the new space is warm and inviting with reds and deep wood. But the pièce de résistance of the decor is an open chef's station that's the hub of the bar. The station uses an special induction style cook-top that eliminates the use of open flames and bulky hood systems so that you can watch the chef, who has traded in his tired toque for a sleek fedora.
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