Downtown Cocktail Dance Club Honeycut Sold, Will Close on New Years | Eater LA

"I learned that a five-year-old cocktail hotspot will close at the end of the year, with its last day of service set for New Year’s Eve 2018. Honeycut burst onto the Downtown bar scene in 2013 as a bigger, flashier contender intended to expand the 213 Hospitality portfolio beyond more mellow spots like Cole’s, Golden Gopher, and Seven Grand, and proprietors Alex Day and David Kaplan helped turn it into a certifiable cocktail scene almost overnight. In 2016 the team gave the venue a nip and tuck and even opened a psychedelic side project inside called The Deep End. The owners have since sold the Honeycut space to an unnamed group; reps declined to identify the buyer and shared a statement about the unique pleasure of serving Downtown Los Angeles cocktails at breakneck speeds, watching crowds cut loose on a technicolored dance floor, and keeping the disco balls and UV lights burning as they plan to serve through New Year’s Eve while the future beyond that remains unclear." - Farley Elliott