(the serious bio)
The Minty is a Los Angeles lifestyle blog focusing on the city’s dining, dating, arts and culture scenes. The Minty is best known for her food and bar crawls with such themes as Hot Bartenders, Gays & Dolls and Craft Beer. The Minty also hosts the Sexy Singles Supper Club and the Sexy Singles Soiree series. She has judged foodie contests from cupcakes to cocktails to chocolate as well as written for BlackboardEats and DealPop.
Check out The Minty’s side projects, Hot Bartenders and LA Cocktails.
The Minty is available for freelance writing, event planning, art & photography workshops, social media projects and marketing/ public relations consulting.
All photography is copyrighted to me unless otherwise noted. I shoot mainly with a Canon PowerShot S95 and occasionally with a Sony DSC-WX9. My older pictures were shot with a Canon PowerShot A1000.
(the fun bio)
Minty loves to dance. Minty loves art. Minty also enjoys roadside attractions, coin-operated machinery, theatre including musicals, food crawls, DIY/ crafts, pirates and design. Minty’s also silly and sometimes talks in the third person.
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Picking the Food Blogger’s Brain

February 5, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Dear Minty,
Sorry to hear that your experience at Elements was less than outstanding. We always welcome feedback.
I would like to correct our mistakes and invite you and a guest back as my personal guests to try us again. Please contact my Directory of Operations, Erik Rieder, at erieder@elementskitchen.com so he can make a reservation for you.
I hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Onil Chibas
Chef / Owner
February 5, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Thank you, however I would prefer to come back on my own. In general, I like the look of your menu and will probably try the restaurant out again.
May 20, 2011 at 2:19 PM
it was lovely meeting you last night at the sushi movie event!