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Bar/Brewery

Craft Beer Los Angeles

Monkish Brewing Shaolin Kick

What do Wu Tang Clan, Shaolin Soccer and Bruce Lee have in common? Those songs and movies are typically playing in the background when Monkish Brewing co-owner Henry Nguyen and his crew are brewing...
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Craft Beer Los Angeles

Pacific Plate Brewing Horchata Stout

Hidden corners of L.A. County are now seeing craft beer’s impact. For example, in a Monrovia industrial park, Pacific Plate Brewing is an upstart brewery from owners Stephen Kooshian (brewmaster), Steven Cardenas (brewer) and...
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Craft Beer Los Angeles

Haven Brewing Beer Flight [CLOSED]

When Wil Dee, Ace Patel and chef Greg Daniels expanded on the success of their Old Towne Orange gastropub with an even bigger Haven Gastropub (and house-brewed beer) in Old Pasadena, the trio was...
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Craft Beer Los Angeles

Craftsman Brewing Death By Train

One of L.A.’s saddest culinary moments from 2013 involved the untimely closure of The Spice Table, the awesome Singaporean and Vietnamese restaurant from chef Bryant Ng and wife Kim Luu-Ng. L.A.’s Metro Transportation Authority...
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Cocktail Miami

The Broken Shaker Kumquat South Side

So much of South Beach is about style over substance, but thanks to The Sydell Group and seasoned bartenders Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta from Bar Lab, a small pocket of the island has...
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Craft Beer San Diego

The Lost Abbey Merry Taj

It rare for a San Diego brewery to avoid IPAs, and while Tomme Arthur and his Belgian-inspired crew at The Lost Abbey have delivered “inspired beer for saints and sinners alike” since 2006, they’ve...
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