Botanica Events

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Raw Wine is coming to town, so obviously we’ll be celebrating…

Come Friday, 11/1, for a BTG takeover with Kontozisis (organic vineyards in Thessaly working with indigenous grapes — Aphrodite from Kontozisis will be in the house, pouring)!

Come Sunday, 11/3, for a Raw after-party with Nomadic Distribution, featuring 11 winemakers and their goods BTG!

Reservations recommended. CHEERS!

Join two of our favorite recipe mavens, Aran Goyoaga & Heidi Swanson, to celebrate the launch of Aran’s new book with small bites, drinks and book signings! Meet the authors and taste recipes inspired by their books. Ticket price includes food, a drink and signing; we’ll have both of their beautiful cookbooks on hand for purchase.

THURSDAY, 9/26: Celebrate Amy Chaplin’s New Cookbook! 
What: Whole Food Cooking Every Day author Amy Chaplin will be joining us for dinner! Buy a book, get it signed, then sit down for a dinner featuring specials from Amy’s cookbook!
When: 5:30pm-close
Where: Botanica
Etc: Reserve a seat via Resy or give us a call at 323-522-6106

WEDNESDAY, 6/19: Eat Cook LA Q & A! 
What: Eat Cook LA author Aleksandra Crapanzano and LA Times food editor Lucas Peterson discuss the past, present and future of LA’s food landscape. Book signing to follow!
When: 5:30-6:30pm
Where: Botanica’s back patio
Etc: RSVP to hello@botanicarestaurant.com to reserve a seat. Space is limited!

MONDAY, 5/13: Q & A and Book Signing @ Now Serving! 
What: Heather will sit down with Abra to chat about her gorgeous new book, their shared love of vegetables, and much more. Book signing to follow!
When: 7:30pm
Where: Now Serving, 727 N. Broadway #133, LA

TUESDAY, 5/14: Abra @ Botanica!
What: Abra will be signing books and shmoozing! Come on by to pick up a copy and meet her. Plus, we’ll be serving dinner specials from Ruffage (in addition to our regular menu).
When: 5:30pm – close
Where: Botanica!

FRIDAY, 5/3: Cocktail Party! 
$10 Botanica Spritzes and Botanica G&Ts!

SATURDAY, 5/4: Rosé Tasting in the Market!
4-6pm, $20 for a taste of 6 (!) rosés from around the world + a glass of your favorite… plus friends & family discounts on retail bottles!

SUNDAY, 5/5: Botanica Community Pop-Up Market!
Featuring Happy Face natural cosmetics, Suay Sew Shop vintage & linens, Paperclip Pottery ceramics, Hat & Beard Press lit, Grow Good Farm produce & vintage menswear from Jude Zasadzki

Come by on Sunday, 12/30 for a sparkling wine tasting of epic proportions!

We’ll be popping the corks on our pét-nats, crémants & Champagnes, pouring a taste of each + a glass of your favorite for $35.

AND we’ll be offering a discount on bottles from the tasting. So come taste an unprecedented lineup of bubbling beauties, and stock up for NYE (and beyond)!

We’ll be serving a Middle Eastern-inspired spread of festive fare, plus bubbles…so many bubbles! (Along with our regular wine & cocktail lists, too.)

$80 for unlimited feasting & a glass of sparkling wine

First seating: 6-6:30pm
Second seating: 8:30-9:30pm

We’ll be open, festive & frisky until midnight!

Give us a call to book your table (323-522-6106), or snag one via Resy!

Join us for a pop-up holiday market featuring makers & vendors from the Botanica community! We’ll have Whit Hazen wreaths, Paperclip Pottery ceramics, Suay Sew Shop linens, skincare, vintage, books from The Lev and MORE!

Sunday, December 2
10am – 2pm
@ Botanica

Please join us to fête one of our favorite women in food / life, Rebekah Peppler! Rebekah’s first book, Aperitif, is a celebration of drinking and snacking the French way (she would know — she’s a Paris resident herself). We’ll be gathering around our market table from 5:30-7pm to do just that. Rebekah will be on hand to sign books, help us perfect our French accents, and oui — give out a handful of books for free! No need to RSVP — just show up!

RAW WINE IN THE HOUSE! Come party with a crew of natural winemakers, wine-slingers and wine-drinkers — including your hosts with the most, our own Pier-Luc Dallaire + Montreal’s magnificent Morgane Muszynski.

The crew (peep the poster above) will be dining on the patio; we’ll be pouring their most delicious wares and serving some especially wine-y bites for the evening (as in: these bites are just begging for some wine).

Give us a call to book your table (323-522-6106), or snag one via Resy!

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Raw Wine (aka Natural Wineapalooza) is coming to town, and we’re using it as an excuse to get some of our all-time favorite producers in the house. First up, a power trio:

BICHI! Badasses from Baja California, making sassy, spunky, distinctive wines from old-vines (100 años!)

POPULIS/LES LUNES! Northern California natural wine young guns with old-world souls, whose drinkable beauties frequent our list

LA GRANGE TIPHAINE! We absolutely adore the wines from husband and wife Damien & Coralie, third-generation makers in the Loire

Come meet them, taste their wines, and have a damn delicious time! $25 for a taste of everything + a glass of your favorite. No need to reserve; just come on by between 6:30 – 8:30. Whoohoo!

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Join SCRIBE vintner Andrew Mariani for a Scribe Night at Botanica! He and his crew will be on hand with a selection of new Scribe releases, including the 2018 NOUVEAU of Pinot Noir. We’ll have a tasting of four Scribe beauties going down in the market ($25 for a taste of all four + a glass of your favorite!), and will be pouring them in the dining room all night long.

From its stunning Sonoma winery, Scribe is producing some of the most elegant wines coming out of California right now. They’re all non-interventionist, terroir-driven gorgeousness; we think they’re the tops, and we cannot wait to get our hands on the juicy, rosy, glou-glou freshness that NOUVEAU promises to be. This is going to be a fun, delicious night in celebration of good food, good wine & good people — and you should join!

Reserve your table now! Give us a call at (323) 522-6106 or book via Resy (and if you’re a member of the Scribe Viticultural Society, please mention upon booking).

The Lev, a pop-up bookstore featuring female and unrepresented authors, will be popping up at Botanica! Swing by from 10am – 2pm to shop some of our favorite titles and theirs, including cookbooks, novels, children’s books and more!

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Join the authors of one of our favorite new books of the year, Wine Food — a collection of intensely delicious, outrageously enticing recipes to eat alongside natural wine. (“Glou-Glou Thai BBQ! Butternut Lamb Chili! Pomegranate-Roasted Carrots with Lentils, Labneh and Carrot-Top Zhoug!” These gals are speakin’ our food language.)

The exceptional taste and joie de vivre of authors Dana Frank + Andrea Slonecker jump off every page… so come by on Monday night to meet them, pick up a book, taste their wine (because they make wine, too! they do it all!), and bask in their general excellence.

They’ll be pouring their ‘Food Wine,’ a lively, juicy, friendly Pinot-Gamay blend from two organically farmed Willamette vineyards, as well as tastes of a few other picks from our list (beauties we don’t normally pour BTG, popped open just for you!).

No tickets or reservations required; just swing by from 5:30pm onward. They’ll be setting up camp in the market!

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Join us in the market on Thursday, 6/28, for a tasting of the California natural wines you should be drinking all summer long. Specifically, we’ll be opening bottles from: Ruth Lewandowski, Populis, La Clarine Farm & Martha Stoumen. How’s that for an all-star, all-American lineup?

5:30 – 7pm, $20 for a taste of each wine and a glass of your favorite. PLUS 10% off any bottles you buy that night!

There’s a lot happening in American to feel bad about right now. But these super-natural, super-delicious American beauties will make you feel good; we promise.

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Join us on Wednesday, May 23, from 5:30-7:30pm for a SUPER SPECIAL, EXTRA DELICIOUS tasting + party in the market! Author Jessica Battilana will be there with her gorgeous, inspiring new cookbook, Repertoire, in tow – and we’ll be celebrating with bites from the book and wine from our pals at SCRIBE WINERY in Sonoma.

$25 gets you a taste of three of Scribe’s current releases (Sylvaner, Pinot Noir Rosé and St. Laurent), a glass of your favorite of the three, and hearty bites from Repertoire.

From its stunning Sonoma winery, Scribe is producing some of the most beautiful, special bottles coming out of California right now. They’re all non-interventionist, terroir-driven elegance, and we think you will LOVE them!

No need to RSVP – just come on by, ready to sip, snack and CHEERS!

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This month’s edition of The Freya Project features four fiercely talented women reading original essays about a common theme: a time in nature. We’re the LA host of this female-focused reading series that stars women from across the professional spectrum, and benefits small, independent non-profits across the country in serious need of support. In other words: It’s fun, inspiring AND important!

So join us on April 23rd for an evening of snacks, conversation and creativity, benefitting the environmental conservancy group 1000 Friends of Florida!

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On April 30, Female Animal presents a live read of Fantastic Mr. Fox at Botanica! This reading series celebrates film, food, and community while raising money for local non-profits.

Each event is linked to a local charity: Edition 3 will be in support of Akasa, a non-profit focused on cultivating mindfulness and healthful cooking skills in children in low-income neighborhoods in L.A..

Let’s get crackin’! *Mr. Fox whistle* Snag your ticket here!

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Join us on Monday, March 19th from 6-8pm for a NATURAL WINE TASTING EXTRAVAGANZA! Six – count ’em, SIX! – of our favorite producers are coming to town, all the way from France and Germany, just to pour their wine for YOU! We’re hosting them for one magical, wine-soaked night only… and we hope you’ll be there!

$20 admittance* gets you all the sips and wine-centric conversation you can handle. We’ll have a bar laden with fun snacks for sale, too – so come thirsty, hungry and ready to CHEERS!

RSVP to hello@botanicarestaurant.com

*free for members of the wine/restaurant trade
**poster graphic by the super-cool Louise Sheeran

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Join us for an all-day celebration of amazing women doing incredible things!

WHAT TO EXPECT…

Two pop-up shops!
One from Whit McClure of Whit Hazen floral, another from Denise Lopez of
D Ceramics! Buy beautiful blooms and bespoke bowls, platters, vases + more!
Get your fix from 11am-3pm, on the sidewalk at Botanica.

A wine tasting featuring our favorite female natural winemakers!
$25 gets you a taste of 5 wines (from Italy, France and beyond) + a glass of your favorite — also offered as a pairing tableside!
Sip from 5:30-7pm in our market, and/or ALL NIGHT LONG AT YOUR TABLE!

Extra-special specials from famous female chefs/cooks we love!
Taste ’em ALL DAY LONG at the restaurant + market!

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Our resident floral maven, Whit Hazen, is bringing her festive wreath magic to Botanica. Buy one of her gorgeous seasonal compositions at a wreath pop-up on Saturday, 12/2 or Sunday, 12/10, 10am – 2 pm. Or (even better!) join her for a wreath-making class in the market on Tuesday, 12/12! Spend your evening creating a whimsical & modern wreath with Whit, using branches, dried flowers, berries, cones and fruit to create a lovely holiday composition to take home. Tuesday, December 12th, 6:30-8:30pm — $100 + processing fee — email hello@whithazen.com to register!

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Join us + the Echo Park Craft Fair for an evening of community, Yola Mezcal cocktails, early Craft Fair shopping and treats on Tuesday, December 5th!

Proceeds from the evening will benefit Good Shepherd Shelter, LA’s first domestic violence shelter.

LIMITED TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE; GET THEM HERE

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The stunning handiwork of Oaxacan weavers will be on display as XYZ Cooperative pops up at Botanica on Thursday, 12/7.

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Raw Wine (a roving natural wine fair) is coming to town and bringing some of the world’s most marvelous winemakers with it. So, naturally, we thought we should celebrate with them. First up: on Saturday, November 11, from 6 – 8 pm, the makers behind Northern California’s much-obsessed-over (and rightfully so) La Clarine Farm are coming! They make wine as naturally as possible, from their chemical- and fertilizer-free vineyards to their additive-free cellar. Read more on their site and we promise you’ll want to hug them / drink all their wine, always and forever. 

But wait, there’s more! Domaine Ligas is coming, too! This family-run vineyard in Northern Greece is producing some of the most special wines in the country, using beyond-organic agriculture, hand-harvesting, natural yeasts to create beautiful expressions of their terroir.

Saturday is going to be a WINE WINE PARTY PARTY, and we hope you’ll be there! Join us in the market from 6 – 8 pm; $20 gets you a taste of five wines (three from La Clarine, two from Domaine Ligas) and a glass of whichever you fancy. Plus we’ll be selling their bottles for 10% retail. CHEERS!

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Sunday, November 12, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, winemaker Diego Roig from Les Lunes & Populis will join us in the market for a tasting of his wines – which are some of the most compelling coming out of Northern California right now.

We like to say that the Les Lunes/Populis makers are California natural wine young guns with old-world souls. They do everything themselves (they even built their own cellar); the resulting wines are lively and elegant, fresh and alluring. They’re blazing a trail into the future of California winemaking while honoring the past…and the results are delicious!

Come taste five of them on Sunday evening; $20 gets you sips of each and glass of your favorite (and we’ll be selling the bottles for 10% off retail, too!). Or come in for dinner after 7:30 and let Diego be your sommelier!

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Join us on Monday, November 13, for an incredibly special evening with The Freya Project, an all-woman reading series. Tickets are $30, and proceeds go to small non-profit organizations doing massively important work. This is our second time playing host to this gathering, and we can guarantee it will be a community-building, faith-in-humanity bolstering, laugh-and-cry-and-make-new-friends evening. Join us! Snag your spot at FreyaProject.com/LA

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Join us for a very special dinner on Wednesday, November 1 in honor of one of our cookbook (and general food) heroes: DAVID TANIS!

We’ll be celebrating his gorgeous/inspiring new book, Market Cooking, with a multi-course feast featuring dishes from the cookbook and our Botanica repertoire ($50). David will be the guest of honor; he’ll be joining us to mingle, clink glasses and sign cookbooks (we’ll have them on hand to purchase). Snag a spot via OpenTable or call the restaurant to reserve (323-522-6106)!

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We’re head-over-heels in love with Alison Roman’s new cookbook, Dining In. So we invited her to come talk about it! Join her and food writer Gillian Ferguson for cocktails and conversation on the patio on Sunday, October 29, 5-6:30pm. The event is free, but please rsvp to hello@botanicarestaurant.com!

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