Food & Dining
FOOD & DINING: Miro Restaurant at Bacara Resort & Spa, Santa Barbara
Posted by: ESMHave you ever been to a higher-end restaurant where everything just comes together perfectly? My wife calles it the “trifecta”: Beautiful ambience Impeccable service Amazing food As most of you may already know, these three things rarely come together at [...]
BLAME IT ON THE…: Macallan
Posted by: ESMWant to know what a coming-of-age event is for a man? When he figures out the difference between a single malt scotch and a blended scotch. It is roughly at that same point he is introduced to The Macallan portfolio of [...]
BLAME IT ON THE…: Ultimat Vodka
Posted by: ESMWe’re in love. What was once a small feature on our Food & Dining section about Morton’s Ultimat dirty martini with blue cheese stuffed olives has become a full-blown obsession with Ultimat Vodka. What makes it so good? It’s so [...]
FOOD & DINING: Morton’s cajun ribeye and Ultimat dirty martini with blue cheese stuffed olives
Posted by: ESMEver eat at Morton’s? If you’ve done your tour of steakhouses in your lifetime, you know Morton’s is an old school steak joint that only serves the best quality steaks, seafood, service and drinks. Last Sunday, a few cohorts and [...]
FEATURE: ESM’s 5 most balling-est Halloween treats
Posted by: ESMWe have been racking our brains as to what the article for today was going to be. Should we write about Halloween since most parties happened last Saturday? Should we just write a regular article? What if we wrote about [...]
Top 5 Places in London That Won’t Give You Food Poisoning
Posted by: FreshLondon gets a bad rap for being known to have the worst food on the planet. Being a Londoner (did I just call myself a “Londoner”) for two years now, I’m here to tell you this myth is not true. [...]
FOOD & DINING: Lustre Pearl, Austin
Posted by: ESMWe’ve been to our share of bars in our lifetime, but this is the first time we’ve been to a bar that made us feel like we just showed up to someone’s house party where: You didn’t know the host of [...]
FOOD & DINING: The Colony by SBE
Posted by: ESMSometimes the best nights are those that aren’t planned. Last Friday a small ESM contingent decided to check out The Colony by SBE in Hollywood to go blow off some steam and celebrate a special occassion. To make sure we got in no problem and [...]
FOOD & DINING: 1321 Downtown Taproom Bistro
Posted by: ESMI had a friend who used to tell me all the time he would measure how good a restaurant was simply by the bread they served. He said that if the bread was really good, it meant they put a lot [...]
FEATURE: Supperclub, Los Angeles
Posted by: ESMIf you’ve been going out in Hollywood over the past few months, the one club you have been hearing a lot about recently is Supperclub, Los Angeles. Words such as “acrobats dropping from the ceiling” and “all white beds” and “amazing” [...]
FOOD & DINING: ValBeMar Kopi Luwak
Posted by: ESMRemember a while back when we had an article where we jokingly said you can finally poop gold? We have discovered there are actual animals from Indonesia that for all intents and purposes poop something almost as valuable as gold. They create the [...]
BLAME IT ON THE….: Dean Martin
Posted by: ESMThe three horsemen are little girls compared to Dean Martin. Martini image courtesy of Hemera/Thinkstock, scotch image courtesy of George Doyle/Valueline/Thinkstock, tequila image courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock. Classic quote from the following morning: “For some reason, whenever I drink martinis, Patron shots [...]













