Tomatoes and ice
*****CONTEST CLOSED*****
Win a pair of tickets to a “Nights With Neve Ice” cocktail party at Osteria La Buca. You’ll want these babies (worth $60). At this event in the cozy Italian restaurant on Melrose, not only will you get to enjoy that fancy, luxury ice by Michel Dozois (formerly of Comme Ca and STK) that’s featured in the cocktails at the Hollywood Roosevelt Library Bar and Bottega Louie, but four “Italian Gypsy”-inspired specialty cocktails created by Michel and Steve Livigni, general manager of La Descarga. And for each cocktail, Osteria La Buca’s Chef Alberto Lazzarino, will pair a beautiful bite to go with it.
Tickets to the event are available for $30 per person and include food, live music and the four cocktails (it’s $8 for each additional cocktail). That’s still quite a deal even if you don’t win tickets here. Reservations are required so email Michel at md [at] neveice.com.
Want to try your luck at the contest anyway? All you have to do is come up with your own name for an Italian cocktail. I tried it on Drago Centro’s spring cocktail menu armed with only an English-Italian online translator and I think I did pretty well. You don’t have to make up your own recipe or anything complex like that, just give me a name and include the English translation. And if you’re so inclined, why that would be the name of your cocktail. Just don’t give me the Italian translation of a cocktail name that already exists, capiche? But you can rename your favorite cocktail. Like, I’d call the Manhattan “Nettare Delizioso” — delicious nectar.
OK so how do you win these tickets? Just do the following:
- Leave a comment below with your email address (so I can contact you if you win) and your Twitter handle as well as your Italian cocktail name. There is no right answer, I?m just curious.
- Tweet this: ?I need a drink @carolineoncrack! Gimme tix 2 Nights w/ @NeveIce @OsteriaLaBuca! https://bit.ly/aQabdJ”
Submit your entries by this Thursday at 1pm and then I’ll use the randomizer to pick a winner, which will be announced the next day. Buona fortuna!
POST EDIT: The winner’s cocktail name will be applied to one of the evening’s cocktails! Go to the jump to see the drink ingredients of each of Michel and Steve’s drinks. Names have been omitted for this contest.
EVENT: TUESDAY, APRIL 27 from 7 to 10pm
Osteria La Buca
5210 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90038 (map)
Twitter: @NeveIce and @OsteriaLaBuca
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Steve Livigni cocktails :
- Cocktail #1: Dimmi Italian Liqueur, vodka, lemon juice, melon juice, prosecco
- Cocktail #2: Zaya Rum, Averna Amaro, blood orange juice, Nocello Walnut Liqueur, super fine sugar
Michel Dozois cocktails:
- Cocktail #3: Scotch blended, Carpano Antica, Cynar
- Cocktail #4: Carpano Antica, whiskey, simple syrup, lemon juice, egg white