Where We’ve Been Drinking, Suburban Edition While we’re now committed city dwellers, both of us were raised in the suburbs. Though our hometowns are in entirely different regions of the country (one outside of LA and the other outside of Chicago), their stories are remarkably similar....
Tuxedo #2 Cocktail Recipe Happy New Year! We have no idea what 2017 will bring, but we know we're ready to turn the page on 2016 and try something new. To welcome the new year in style, we present to you this classy 50/50 martini we found...
The Bottled Negroni Experiment Out on a double date recently, the other couple told us a cocktail horror story. They had ordered a Negroni at a bar; to their utter disbelief, the bartender took out a glass, filled it with ice, and then poured a pre-mixed...
Where We've Been Drinking: The Gibson DC Our first experience of a speakeasy style cocktail lounge was at The Violet Hour in Chicago, and in some ways the Violet Hour still serves as our archetype of the post-modern speakeasy at its best. There was, of course,...
Where We've Been Drinking: The Dabney DC Not having had quite enough of Blagden Alley after our recent after-dinner stop at Columbia Room, we decided to make our way back to the Dabney next door for our pre-Christmas Christmas dinner. There weren't any reservations available on...
F.E.W. Spirits Tasting While Prohibition ended nationally in 1933, some localities decided to keep it going for a while. Take Evanston, IL, for instance. This small city on Chicago's northern border, the headquarters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, kept Prohibition in place until 1972. It's ironic...
12 Drinks of Christmas: the Grand Finale There's nothing like finally getting to that breathless twelfth day in a rendition of the 'The 12 Days of Christmas.' We felt like, as we enter into Christmas weekend, it would be worth doing a final rundown of our...
Where We've Been Drinking: DC's Columbia Room Hidden away in a couple of alleys off of 9th and N NW is a magical little world. From the street they look like just another of the service alleys you find throughout DC, but if the unusual number...
Repeal Day Ball 2016 Every year, on or about December 5th, in eminently DC fashion, the DC Craft Bartenders Guild throws a huge bash to celebrate the anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. It's not the most famous or most important...
12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Minthattan 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 with twelve...