Whether you call Eric Alperin a bartender, a bar owner, or (more recently) an author, this is the man behind some of LA’s favourite bars.

If you’ve ever been (or would like to go) to The Varnish or The Slipper Clutch in LA, The Red Dog Saloon in Pioneertown California or Half Step bar in Austin, it might be good to know a little about the man who owns them.

So grab a daiquiri or a Campari Soda and settle in as we ask Eric 26 Questions and find out about, as he himself puts it, his ‘life’s secrets’.

For more information on Alperin’s book Unvarnished, please go to @unvarnished.

If you want to hear Eric discuss the influence of Sasha Petraske, he will be part of a panel discussion during Tales Of The Cocktail entitled A Method to the Madness: The Enduring Legacy of Sasha Petraske