Not Quite Negroni Week: the Luberon 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 see...
Tiki Week: By the way, what is Tiki? 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...
Shochu Negroni Cocktail Recipe Over the course of our many attempts to replicate Bar Goto's Improved Shochu Cocktail, we gained quite an affection for bison grass vodka, barley shochu, and the soft, sweetly vegetal flavor created when the two are combined. We thought it could serve as...
Great Again Cocktail Recipe We're now counting down the days to the election and regardless of your stance on it, you're probably more than ready to get the thing over with already. And you're probably going to need a drink or five to get through it....
Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe When we were ordering our brunch drinks at Bearnaise, one drink caught our eye that we didn't end up ordering, mostly because we're on a tireless search to find the perfect Bloody Mary; so one of our drink slots is...
Martini Week: St. Germain Martini Our final martini of the week is another ingredient substitution. We're going to tag in St. Germain for the vermouth. You're probably familiar with St. Germain. Made from elderflower, it's the delightfully pleasant, sweet and floral liqueur that we, like most any...
Drink Like the French: Dersou in Paris + Dessert Cocktail Recipe We were overjoyed at the prospect of our first trip to Paris, but also overwhelmed. There's just so much to see and experience that it was more than a little intimidating. What if we wasted...
Les Agnels Lavender Distillery Corn is boring. That's one of our takeaways from Provence. We hate to speak ill of Brian's native Illinois, but when you see the fields of Provence, you have to think those Provencal farmers have learned something about wonder and delight that their Illinoisan...
Drinking in the French Style As you may have noticed from our 2-week gap in posting, we had the enormous privilege and pleasure of spending the first half of July in France. It was our first trip there. We, of course, went into the trip with...
Watermelon Southside Cocktail Recipe Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series, and since then we've been working to add to the collection. We're committed to making Summer 2016 the best summer, and we know that a great summer, in addition to abundant beach...