Major Bailey's Bramble Cocktail Recipe Last weekend, we were invited to a showing of Darius Frank's award-winning art exhibit Things I Love/d, his memorial to things that have been lost in DC's quickly changing cityscape and his tentative embrace of what's new. The contest Frank won was...
Not Quite Negroni Week: King's Summer Cup Cocktail Recipe It seems we're destined to be a little behind. The first week of June, 6000 bars and restaurants were mixing up one of our favorite cocktails for Negroni Week. We were oblivious until, midweek, we started to...
Tiki Week: The Legend of Don the Beachcomber We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
Black and Blue Highball Recipe This week, we're applying our mixing skills to beer. We know we're sledding uphill. Most people prefer their beer taken unmixed, and many beer mixed drinks are an acquired taste. But give us a chance. People have been mixing beer in...
Blackberry Cognac Daisy Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming temperatures and...
'I Lillet You' Valentine's Day Cocktail Recipe We mentioned in a previous post that we felt proud to come out of our visit to Astor Wines with only 3 bottles: a favorite we've had a hard time finding, something we've wanted to try but can't find,...
Whiskey Classics Week: Russell House Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. Today's caught our...
Le Diplomate We happily seek and energetically follow most restaurant or bar recommendations that come our way, but for some reason we resisted Le Diplomate. The hype was a bit too strong, almost to the point of being pushy. Plus, there was something just a little...
Cocktail Recipe: the Sofi We like a lot about our charming, little (very little) Eastern Market apartment, but hands down our favorite thing is the spacious (relatively speaking), leafy patio. We've been tinkering with it since we moved in, adding a grill here, tables and chairs...