During a 10 month installation at the Kiasma museum of contemporary art, Mikko Kuorinki formed a new piece every week, comprised of passages from writers such as Mitch Hedberg, Elias Canetti or Joe Brainard for her work ‘Wall Piece with 200 Letters’.

Brian Prugalidad of Craft & Commerce will be taking a trip uptown to Polite Provisions tonight, where he will host a ‘Game of Thrones’ inspired cocktail menu. Stop by anytime between 8 and 12PM to sample some of Brian’s creations. We’ve heard they’re so good you’d give your right hand for a taste.

[re-posted from eldoradobar.com]

By this point, even your grandmother knows about Daft Punk’s new album “Random Access Memories” dropping on Tuesday, May 21st. Everyone here at El Dorado is so excited for the release that we’ve decided to throw a listening party for the new record, where we’ll be playing the album in its entirety. And to make the night even that much more special, we’re bringing in a special Funktion One sound system to provide the highest fidelity possible – this is Daft Punk, after all. Our good pals and fellow dance music lovers Adam Salter, Kanye Asada, and Steve McQueen will be on hand to provide a groovy soundtrack for the evening before getting to the main event, “Random Access Memories” played cover to cover.

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We found this image of a USS Midway landing signal officer and his assistant from August of 1955 on this pretty remarkable site – National Geographic Found.

Brooklyn Brewery put together this pretty impressive video to promote their Brooklyn Brewery Mash. Really impressive use of a pretty familiar technique.

We have, in the past, attempted to openly reply to Yelp! reviews on their site from a company managed account. While we felt we should have the opportunity to openly reply to the remarks being made about our establishments, Yelp! disagreed and removed our responses. So we’ve taken the conversation to our own venue. We feel this is the most fair way to truly dialogue about the experiences we attempt to provide.

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Nicole, while we may not agree with every fine detail of your eloquent reviews, we’re happy to overlook those points of contention in order to just say, “Thanks”. Reviews like yours bring a smile to our faces. Seriously. Thank you.

This is not food. Janne Kyttanen of Freedom Of Creation made this 3D printing of pasta, along with other dishes, in an attempt to display the uses technology like this could have for the food industry in the future.

We just came across this article about Eric Junker. Junker is a food fanatic in Los Angeles, and also an extremely talented designer. He’s been making custom printed posters for some of his favorite chefs and establishments, free of charge. Great idea, and brilliantly executed.

A great honest piece about a great honest place.

Mike Houston (the artist behind the “Stop Emailing Me” Walrus print) just released some new ramen package inspired pieces. Some pretty awesome stuff.

We are CH Projects.

We are a group of like-minded individuals united by the shared pursuit of improving the social landscape of San Diego. We set out to create not just restaurants and bars, but public gathering spaces that help cultivate our neighborhoods through the fostering of creativity and dialogue. More than houses for innovative menus and handcrafted drinks, our projects are meant to be incubators for meaningful interaction.

You’ll find this ethos and more in the “Who We Are” section of this site, where we’ve put forth a concerted effort to share who we are, why we are, and what we believe in as a company.

But why start a blog?

While the online landscape is cluttered with promotional contrivance and ego-inflating pontification, we know there exists a vast opportunity to curate and generate thoughtful dialogue. Never before has it been so easy to collaborate, discuss, debate, and share within our industry. Our hope is that this blog becomes a cultural reference collection for us as a group, and a vibrant salon for visitors to convene and converse. As we aspire to do with our properties, we’re hoping to rise above the noise and create a dynamic, locally relevant forum for the exchange of ideas, opinions and information.

It takes a certain type of personality to do what we do with such a high standard of execution, and we feel we’ve found some of the best talent out there. However, there is only so much room for expression in this industry. At the end of the day, we have guests to take care of, and their well-being is our first priority. We hope that this blog will serve as a creative outlet for our inspired compatriots.

The pressures of a 24-hour news cycle, a commitment to advertisers, and the rising popularity of social mediums as news outlets have diluted and monetized media, a once great institution. By avoiding the typical pressures and influences of modern news sites, we hope that we can promote an honest, fair, and interesting dialogue with our readers.

Like any project we undertake, this blog is not aiming to please everyone at every time. Just like in our bars and restaurants, we want to hear from you—we respect your unbiased feedback, your passionate voice, your thoughtfully formed opinion. We aren’t into monologues, bandwagons or ambivalence. No one—not us, you, San Diego, or the hospitality industry at large—gains anything from complacency, single-mindedness, or agreement for agreement’s sake.

We want to create another avenue to converse with our communities, to share ideas and products of quality, and to transparently chronicle our steps—our trials, tribulations, misfires, successes, and passions—as we strive to improve San Diego’s social landscape. Constructive discourse and collaborative conversation are what built this industry, and it’s what makes it great today. We hope you’ll join us in keeping the spirit of that conversation alive and thriving.

We’re glad you’re here.

E. Henmiway Special (sic), the Original “Hemingway Daiquiri” from Havana’s Floridita c. 1937. Reader beware: limón verde doesn’t quite translate to lemon…