Drink Like the Greeks: Introduction and Local Wine While our love for our neighborhood of Eastern Market is well-documented, we also love to travel. We say we love to travel, but it might be more accurate to say we have loved to travel. We're about to...
12 Days of Christmas 2016: Witches' Brew Sangria Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...
12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Mediterranean Mulled Wine Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...
Where We've Been Drinking: James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy At this conference in Pittsburgh for food and drink writers, we ended the one of the evenings by dispersing to various Pittsburgh night spots. One of the recommended venues, James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy, was conveniently located just...
Tinto de Verano Cocktail Recipe Several years ago, one of us spent a vacation in Spain's charming southernmost region, Andalusia. It's a corner of Spain that's generally left to itself, but if you go you'll discover that in its quiet way it has a lot going...
The Wine Spritzer A friend recently asked us to tend bar for a party he was throwing. It was on a rooftop with stunning views, at sunset. The crowd was a fun one. It sounded like a nice way to spend an evening. The only thing...
Summer Cocktail Recipe: Kentucky Summer Sangria We like to greet the arrival of a new season with a special sangria for the occasion. In an act of possible over-exuberance, we actually welcomed winter with three different sangria recipes. As summer comes around the corner, it's time...
Croatia Week: Work Avoidance We recently tended bar for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government alumni event held at the Croatian embassy. It was sort of a reunion of participants in Ronald Heifetz's crazily popular class on Adaptive Leadership. We designed custom cocktails for the event, using...
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...
12 Drinks of Christmas: Spiced Winter Red Sangria For the tenth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...