Michele StuevenBOA Steakhouse’s Chef Brendan Collins is teaming up with guest Chef Ricardo Zarate for a one-night-only collaboration menu on Saturday, June 29 at BOA Sunset in West Hollywood. Dishes will range from amberjack tiradito from La Paz Baja California and yellow peaches with San Daniele prosciutto and whipped ricotta from Chef Collins, to duck on Black Beer Northern Peruvian rice with smoked feta cheese sauce from Zarate. The full menu tasting price is $145.
Crossroads Kitchen’s next guest chef dinner at the West Hollywood location takes place on Wednesday, July 17, with chef Tal Ronnen teaming up with chefs Keith Corbin and Daniel Patterson from Alta Adams for a plant-based Southern-inspired dinner. The four-course menu includes deviled eggs, heirloom tomato and peach salad, barbecue lion’s mane mushrooms, candied yam gratin, collard greens and more.
Bar Next Door in partnership with Postmates, is bringing the iconic New York deli, Katz’s Delicatessen to Los Angeles for one-day only on Saturday, June 29 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Katz’s will be serving their famous Pastrami Sandwich on Rye with a side of Katz’s housemade mustard and pickles. A limited number of Katz’s famous pastrami sandwiches and limited-edition branded merchandise will be available at Bar Next Door for delivery from Postmates or at Bar Next Door. For those who can’t wait to dive into their pastrami sandwiches and want to eat at Bar Next Door, the neighborhood haunt will be serving its full cocktail menu as well as a specialty Coors Banquet cocktail inclusive of a Coors Banquet Lager with a Dirty Mixed Brine Martini Shot with vodka, pickle, olive, and pepperoncini brine.
In honor of July being National Ice Cream Month, Netflix’s Scoops Ahoy, a line of ice cream flavors from the hit show, Stranger Things will pop up at the Walmart Supercenter in Porter Ranch on Saturday, July 6 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cool down with USS Butterscotch, a blend of salty-sweet caramel ribbons and chocolate swirls. Triple Decker Extravaganza, vanilla, and butter ice cream, swirled with maple ribbons, chocolate peanut butter candy, and waffle bites, Cinnamon Bun Bytes, cinnamon ice cream, swirled with cinnamon cream cheese and cinnamon roll dough or Chocolate Pudding with chocolate ice cream, chocolate fudge swirls, and vanilla wafers.
Upside-down flavors include The Void, a spoonful of black vanilla ice cream, filled with strawberry ribbons and vanilla cream cookie pieces, and the Pineapple Upside Down with chunks of pound cake and salted caramel swirls in pineapple ice cream.
Art Beyond the Glass returns for its twelfth event on Sunday, June 30 at the Catch One nightclub. More than 100 of LA’s top bartenders will make cocktails with proceeds donated to Self Help Graphics & Art. The landmark nightclub was opened by Jewel Thais-Williams in 1973 as Jewel’s Catch One, a pioneering LGBTQ+ disco featuring state-of-the-art sound and lighting spanning two floors and multiple indoor and outdoor spaces. Self Help Graphics & Art fosters the creation and advancement of new artworks by Chicana/o and Latinx artists through experimental and innovative printmaking techniques and other visual art forms. ABTG will feature dozens of Bartenders from LA’s top bars and restaurants, including All Day Baby, Apotheke, Bar Flores, Bar Next Door, Death & Co, Fanny’s, General Lee’s, Level 8, Lustig, The Mermaid, Mother Tongue, Nativo, Roger Room, Scum & Villainy, The Varnish, along with pop-up bars and a special Legacy Team.
TV Watch: So many bars, so many rescues. Jon Taffer, the bar and nightclub consultant for more than 30 years who travels the country saving some of the worst bars in America from failure and ruin on Bar Rescue heads to Pompano Beach, Florida to help a seasoned bar veteran fix his family issues so that he can take a step closer to retirement. Catch the 250th episode of Bar Rescue on Paramount Network on Sunday, June 30 at 10 p.m.
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