Liquor 101: Bitters, with special guests Embitterment DC We're spirits people. Or maybe we're liqueur people. Either way, it's always been the big bottles of liquor that capture our attention first. But recently, through the influence of people like the guys at Embitterment (fellow Union Kitchen...
What We've Been Drinking: Drops of Jupiter Over the years we've developed some cocktail crushes, all the tweeny feelings of smittenness both for certain cocktails and for their makers. Our latest crush started when we noticed that so many of our social media friends were all posting...
The Blizzard Challenge: what we learned about your home bars During the recent blizzard, we made an offer to our fellow homebound, but thirsty, snowstorm victims: tell us what's in your liquor cabinet, and we'll suggest a drink to make. It was a fun way for us...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Nooshi Before we moved to DC, everyone consistently told us about one thing: happy hour. The happy hour scene is great! It's what everyone does. Just you wait. Comments like these made us think we would get along with DC just fine, and...
What they drink in Iceland (Brennivin) & do you want to drink it? In our very earliest posts (here and here and here), we talked about our idea that you can have a quite adequate home bar if you buy eight basic bottles, and then a...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Hanks Oyster Bar We have so many reasons to love and thank Storm Jonas; he gave us 3 days out of the office, allowed us to complete every Netflix series that we had begun, taught us that the Capitol can in fact...
Girlfriend Drink: Your Monday Night Bookclub Bookclubs are fabulous in their own right; they involve friends and dinner and thought-provoking conversation; all ingredients for an evening well-spent. And while endless Cougar-Town-sized glasses of red wine are often the drink-image associated with such gatherings, for our last...
Where We've Been Drinking: Zaytinya We heard about Jose Andres well before we ever arrived in DC; we had more than one friend who gave us a goodbye gift in the form of a gift card to his restaurant group. We took it as a clear...
What We've Been Drinking: The Bastard We helped some friends from grad school celebrate MLK day by mixing drinks. It was a cozy party, filled with a warmth that only comes when there is a whole room filled with people who are delighted to see each other....
Where We've Been Drinking: Le Grenier photo cred: ihadabiglunch.com We mentioned that last Tuesday was our anniversary. Three years of marriage. Boom. That's also three solid years that we've been trying to go to France. We got married in January and winters in Boston are just so...