Let's Not Put a Label on It Cocktail Recipe When we went to Hank's on the Hill to do our photo shoot for our article on Cook's Cook about reading a cocktail menu, it wasn't strictly necessary that the drinks taste good. They just needed to...
Ward 8 Cocktail Recipe When we did our part in the revival of the once endangered West End of Boston with a couple of rounds of drinks at Ward 8, we were tempted by, but did not order, its namesake cocktail, there being too many other...
The Bee's Knees Cocktail Recipe We once made our own limoncello. It was delicious, and not at all complicated to make. And we've never done it again. While not technically difficult, it was a lot of work, in the form of zesting many, many, many lemons....
WhereYou Should Be Drinking: All Purpose DC doesn't really do pizza. This was an adjustment for us. One of us was raised in Chicago, which is, of course, famous for its pizza. That same one spent a few years in New Haven, which claims to be...
Aviation Cocktail Recipe When we stumbled across Arsenic and Old Lace last week, we were actually researching Aviation. The two have several things in common: a name that starts with 'A'; a gin base; creme de violette; and their earliest known appearance in Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for...
Where to Drink in DC: Iron Gate for Brunch Veteran's Day 2015 was a happy day for us. We'd moved to DC at the end of that summer, and after a couple of months of settling in, making our way through the government HR and clearance...
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...
Drinking Gin for Art We learned this past weekend that Bombay Sapphire isn't just a supporter of inspiration of the distilled variety. For the past seven years, they've been throwing an arts competition called the Artisan Series. It's a continent-wide search for the best emerging visual...
The White Lady Cocktail Recipe As was the case with last week's Cuba Libre, the White Lady makes an appearance in an Ernest Hemingway story, but not a favorable one. In Islands in the Stream, our hero Hudson is about to head off to the neighborhood...
Royal Clover Club Cocktail Recipe In our search for a good recipe to feature Glendalough's new Wild Botanical Gin, we ran across this one. It's not a subtle enough drink to allow a fine gin to distinguish itself; so we went with the more gin-centric, delicately...