Not Quite Negroni Week: The Half Measure 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 didn't even know it was happening until,...
Marseillaise Cocktail Recipe We mentioned earlier this week that we recently had a few rounds of drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. While drinking Nido's excellent, vermouth-centric drinks, we swapped recipes for some of our favorite low alcohol cocktails. We shared one of Leith's, The Fortunate...
The Fortunate Mistake Cocktail Recipe We mentioned last week that, having corresponded by e-mail quite a bit, we finally felt it was about time to sit down for some drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. His company, Fasel Shenstone, has introduced us to a whole...
The Chrysanthemum Cocktail Recipe Three of our favorite things are classic cocktail recipes, drinks with a fortified wine base, and strong herbal liqueurs. Imagine our delight when we discovered all three in the same package. The Chrysanthemum is a pre-Prohibition recipe that triples down on the...
The Blossom Cocktail Recipe As we mentioned yesterday, it's cherry blossom season here in DC. Or at least it's supposed to be. As we sit with crossed fingers waiting to see whether or not the blossoms survived the weird combination of a very warm February and...
The Rancho Cocktail Recipe If you tried yesterday's 909 Cocktail, chances are that you have a little bit of blood orange left. So did we, which is no surprise since we had a whole tree to work with. I was intrigued by the way the blood...
Magnus Cocktail Competition & 'Such a Nasty Woman' Cocktail Recipe Ever since our delightful visit to Joseph A. Magnus' Murray Hill Club, we've been looking for a good excuse to buy ourselves a bottle of their beautiful Bourbon. We've wanted that bottle of Magnus because it's...
The Savoy Gimlet Cocktail Recipe One of our bedrock beliefs is that a cocktail does not have to be high-proof to be serious, sophisticated, and delicious. In an effort to steer lower octane drinkers toward satisfying drinks, last week we proposed a system for substituting base spirits...
Cocktails for People Who Say Cocktails are 'Too Strong' Some people have firm beliefs about the right way to do cocktails. We're more romantics than ideologues. We just want to help people find the cocktail they're meant to be with. We believe that there's a cocktail...
The Astoria Cocktail Recipe A couple of weeks ago, we featured the original Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktail, The Waldorf. We should have said one of the Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktails, because of course the Waldorf-Astoria has two names. As we mentioned, the Waldorf-Astoria was the work of two cousins...