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La Jolla menus reveal some salted caramel vodkaimpossibility. with steamed apple INSIDE clever and creative potions for anyone cider. For Regan, keepingAccording the toholidays Social Security data, seeking to add more sparkle to their sips. “fresh” with specialthe dependent beverage offerings probability is of three Atop the Hotel La Jolla, Cusp Dining I important. Consideringbrothers Piattisharing is constantly their lives for Crime News, A8 & Drinks is serving two cocktails along reinventing its menu, Regan likes the bar to more than 90 years is one in five I Opinion, A22 with their wide ocean views. The Killer “keep up with its kitchen,” ensuring the million. 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Soledad, the PB as Juan Mora presented his creation, the Old Fashioned usingthey got chocolate ready forbitters, the bigrye soiree at Granny’s Secret Stash. “The perfect fall whiskey, and Skrewballthe Grande whiskey, Colonial a newer, Hotel (a drink,” according to Mora, is his riff on an local spirit infusedstructure with natural that predates peanut Bill by only Old Fashioned, mixed with Apple Pie liqueur butter. LeGrands ixprefers years). to Billfeature had local just arrived from for sweetness and served on the rocks. liqueurs whenever possible, taking a Holiday Calendar: San Antonio for the occasion with Farther into La Jolla Shores, at Piatti on “culinary approach” to craft cocktails that Your guide to festive COREY LEVITAN his family; Ray and his from Avenida de la Playa, bartender Michael Erbs “people remember and come back for.” In Ray Stewart, 93, Bill Stewart, 100, and Stan Stewart, the baby, pose in the backyard of Stan’s La Jolla house Atherton, California. fun in La Jolla, B1 is replaying his 2018 holiday entry, the colder seasons, he features whiskey on his 90th birthday. Autumn Rye. Muddling fresh rosemary prominently. “It warmsSEE youSTEWART up,” he says,BROTHERS, A10 with orange rind and shaking it with organic adding that the “holidays are a great time to I Let Inga Tell You, B3 maple syrup, Templeton Rye whiskey and be festive and celebrate.” HolidayI Best drinksBets, B4 available at The Marine Room PHOTOS BY ELISABETH FRAUSTO orange bitters, Erbs serves up a drink he calls Tradition bubbles at Café la Rue inside I Holiday Traditions, B7 Christmas Parade to jingle La Jolla’s bells on Sunday, Dec. 8 I Kitchen Shrink, B14 BY COREY LEVITAN Jack McGrory will serve as grand I To fill the air with the sights and marshal and longtime La Jolla business Social Life, B18 sounds of the season for the 62nd leader “Papa” Doug Manchester will be I Classifieds, B21 TOyear, theP La JollaPR Christmas ParadeODUCERS GROUphilanthropyP marshal. 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The Sparkling LaV, created by NINE-TEN’s bar recipes, Fuller likes food and beverage manager Tracy Ackley, “cider-style drinks” for the holidays, and fizzes Champagne together with crème de highlights the syrup here, which is made cassis, pomegranate juice and pomegranate with star anise, scorched pear, and coriander, seeds. Ackley believes “pomegranate is very accenting the amber cocktail. winter, very holiday,” and wanted to Another variety of whiskey sour can be “showcase the spirit the hotel has” with a found at George’s California Modern on cocktail anyone can “come in and enjoy.” Prospect, where Sam Peters, bar manager, At local-driven Wheat & Water in Bird shakes and strains his Nocino Sour. “I love Rock, bar manager Shawn Marks strays from whiskey sours,” Sam stated. “I like the the traditional, submitting his Santa richness of sours, and this one is very Would Go, which stirs a cookie-infused focused on the season.” He mixes a bourbon with Wheat & Water’s own cold traditional sour but uses Nocino, a green brew, simple syrup, and chocolate and walnut liqueur, and house-made cinnamon orange bitters and is served with a vanilla syrup, adding it all to a hickory- and chocolate-dipped, orange-zested cookie. cinnamon-smoked glass and grating “What makes it holiday is the cookie,” Marks cinnamon, nutmeg and star anise on top, AllNew ProgramwithLiveOrchestra said, noting his take on drinks emphasizes noting that the “bold flavors” expressed in “fresh ingredients