LA Weekly lists L.A.'s Best Cocktails with Bahooka, Tiki-Ti and Damon's - Tiki Drinks and Food

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Fri, Mar 4, 2011 7:40 AM I give Jonathan Gold a lot of credit. Unlike some other food critics who only write about the usual (upscale) places, Mr. Gold will venture into places that no white man has ever been. He'll wax poetic about a $5 bowl of noodles or intestine taco as passionately as some critics will about dinner at French Laundry. Also his reviews carry clout, having the ability to take some hole-in-the-wall barrio joint and making it the "It" place for slumming Foodie Westsiders. It's funny, I visited a a favorite Pho place of mine in El Monte and a BBQ joint in Compton, a few weeks after one of his LA Weekly reviews. The owners were scratching their heads as to why so many white people from "Beverly Hills" were all of a sudden showing up. :) He definitely knows his cocktails. Gibson at Musso's, check. Tapping the Admiral at La Descarga, check. Old Fashioned at Coles, check. Etc, etc. It however would have been nice if he had identified some of the "newer" places when it comes to Tropical mixology. His choices of Tiki-Ti, Damon's, and Bahooka could have been based on a list from 10 years ago. I would have REALLY been impressed if he had been in the know enough, to mention a cocktail called a Shaka Hula Bossa Nova (or Zorroro or ...) in a former NoHo Tiki dive bar crafted by one Kelly Reilly. Maybe next year. :) Excuse me, I have a letter to go write.

I give Jonathan Gold a lot of credit. Unlike some other food critics who only write about the usual (upscale) places, Mr. Gold will venture into places that no white man has ever been. He'll wax poetic about a $5 bowl of noodles or intestine taco as passionately as some critics will about dinner at French Laundry. Also his reviews carry clout, having the ability to take some hole-in-the-wall barrio joint and making it the "It" place for slumming Foodie Westsiders.

It's funny, I visited a a favorite Pho place of mine in El Monte and a BBQ joint in Compton, a few weeks after one of his LA Weekly reviews. The owners were scratching their heads as to why so many white people from "Beverly Hills" were all of a sudden showing up. :)

He definitely knows his cocktails. Gibson at Musso's, check. Tapping the Admiral at La Descarga, check. Old Fashioned at Coles, check. Etc, etc. It however would have been nice if he had identified some of the "newer" places when it comes to Tropical mixology. His choices of Tiki-Ti, Damon's, and Bahooka could have been based on a list from 10 years ago.

I would have REALLY been impressed if he had been in the know enough, to mention a cocktail called a Shaka Hula Bossa Nova (or Zorroro or ...) in a former NoHo Tiki dive bar crafted by one Kelly Reilly.

Maybe next year. :)

Excuse me, I have a letter to go write.

Post #578811 by JOHN-O on Fri, Mar 4, 2011 7:40 AM