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    Drinking: Home is Where the Buzz Is

    Sep 11, 2020

    If you’re on lockdown, might as well have some locktails. Here’s our tip sheet on the art of domestic drinking.

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    Drinks: Warm Reception

    Dec 01, 2019

    From fireside snuggling to the holiday shindig, there’s a cocktail for every occasion this season.

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    Mocktails: Dry ideas

    Oct 01, 2019

    Vegas is paradise for drinkers. Here’s how to teetotal here — and have fun doing it.

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    Portage - Exotic Colada
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    Mocktails: Shaken, Stirred, Sober

    Oct 01, 2019

    Once an afterthought on drink menus, mocktails are now taking their rightful place at hotspots across the valley. Here’s a taste of what the buzz is (or isn’t) all about.

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    Mocktails: Rockin’ the mock

    Oct 01, 2019

    Pouring a convivial spirit — without the spirits.

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    Libations: A Song of Spice and Smoke

    Oct 01, 2019

    Cocktail drinkers (and cocktail slingers) are rediscovering tequila and mezcal for libations that are spicy, smoky, and sophisticated. Here’s where to get a taste of the trend. ¡Salud!

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    Summer Dining 2018: The Drinks

    Jun 26, 2018

    Enjoy some refreshing cocktails al fresco.  Here's how to savor the season.

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    Cocktail of the Month: Brazilian Necktie at Jammyland

    May 29, 2018

    Typically, I put spicy cocktails in the same box as dessert cocktails — the one for novelties and sidebars.

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    Cocktail of the Month: Sangria at Alexxa's in Paris Las Vegas

    Mar 29, 2018

    Depending on timing and traffic, the vantage at Alexxa’s offers you either an Instagram-worthy view of the Bellagio fountains in full balletic spray or a GIRLS DIRECT TO YOUR ROOM mobile flashboard drilling into your soul.

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    Cocktail of the Month: The Whisker Pub

    Nov 28, 2017

    So a bar inside another bar is like grandma’s afghan for your liver. That’s the Laundry Room...

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    Our Favorite Bars

    Sep 26, 2017

    To open this feature, we’ll defer to the wit and wisdom of none other than Oscar Wilde, who famously wrote, “I love this bar/ It’s my kind of place/ Just walkin’ through the front door/ Puts a big smile on my face.”

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    Cocktail of the Month: The Joy Stick

    Aug 29, 2017

    You don’t go to the clamorous, corrugated bro cave Hi Scores for anything resembling chill ambience, but hey, you can try your hand at the original Mortal Kombat on free-play and see if you still know Scorpion’s fire-breathing fatality move.

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    Cocktail of the month: Brazilian Waxxx at El Dorado Cantina

    Jul 27, 2017

    Intellectually, I know that strip clubs are vortices of frenetic sad-flavored desperation, but the fact that El Dorado Cantina shares a wall with Sapphire Las Vegas never fails to tickle me with a frisson of ooh maybe something sexy will happen.

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    Cocktail of the month: The Sunburn at The Black Sheep

    Jul 01, 2017

    Summer is the best drinking season because of its implicit approval of volume.

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    Cocktail of the month: The White Linen at Turmeric: Flavors of India

    May 01, 2017

    Don’t be put off by the oonsta thunderbeats shaking the sidewalk outside Turmeric; inside, the music is muted, turning the restaurant into a fun Fremont East people-watching fishbowl with a soundtrack.

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    Cocktail of the month: The Penicillin at The Dorsey

    Apr 01, 2017

    Usually, Scotch makes me think of the following in a sort of randomized blurry associative mental whirlwind: country clubs, ascots, self-satisfied chortling, jodhpurs, stubborn institutional white privilege.

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    Cocktail of the month: China Poblano Cocktail Experience

    Feb 24, 2017

    China Poblano in the Cosmopolitan is all about freewheeling culinary hookups, Mexican and Chinese cuisine getting together and being down for whatever.

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    Cocktail of the month: Monte Carlo at Classic Jewel

    Feb 01, 2017

    In its oak and velvet simplicity, the Monte Carlo stands for the philosophy behind Classic Jewel’s cocktail menu.

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    Cocktail of the month: The Noble Irishman at Elixir

    Jan 01, 2017

    Elixir is hidden atop a curlicue of asphalt that swirls off of Green Valley Parkway, in a nondescript office/retail cube that looks more suited to CPA firms and law practices.

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    Cocktail of the month: The final act and the silver screen at The Barrymore

    Nov 22, 2016

    Happy fifth birthday, Barrymore! *party horn, confetti toss* Not an insignificant milestone for a retro-luxe gem hidden in a sleepy timeshare tower on desolate Convention Center Drive.

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    Mezcal Cozy at Casa Del Matador

    Oct 26, 2016

    There’s a bit of a happy misnomer going on in this seasonal drink.

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    A bite at the bar

    Sep 29, 2016

    Now that the Mojave Desert weather is getting a bit crisp in the evenings, it’s the perfect season for something warm and filling at the bar.

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    We’ll drink to that

    Sep 27, 2016

    You know, living in a white-hot international supernova disco ball of hedonism and spectacle has its perks.

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    Lift your spirits

    Sep 27, 2016

    A simple drinking guide for complicated times. Sure, organic artisanal beaker concoctions with 27 ingredients are fun, but sometimes you want to keep your drinking simple, with a classic cocktail, fine wine or hearty beer.

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    The Ginger at Hank’s Fine Steaks & Martinis

    Aug 25, 2016

    It’s fall, that season of crackly, tumbling leaves, spiced cider, decorative gourds, toe socks, glum intimations of mortality and all that other fun fall stuff we never get to experience as citizens of the Desert Perpetual. Our decidedly Vegas consolation: seasonal cocktails.

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