Dexis Consulting Grand Opening One of our favorite things to do is design custom cocktail menus for parties. We think that cocktails that suit the tastes of the host or the theme of the party make the party more special and enjoyable, and are more fun...
Le Diplomate We happily seek and energetically follow most restaurant or bar recommendations that come our way, but for some reason we resisted Le Diplomate. The hype was a bit too strong, almost to the point of being pushy. Plus, there was something just a little...
Pumpkin Infusions It's time for the dessert of our fall cocktail menu. And what better dessert than pumpkin pie? While we're not above using canned pumpkin puree in our cocktails, for this year's pumpkin pie cocktail, we wanted more of a pure, fresh pumpkin flavor and a...
Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking to the beginning of fall. One of our favorite ways to mark the changing of the seasons is to create a seasonally appropriate old fashioned recipe; it's our version of the pumpkin spice latte. While we...
The Orchard Highball Cocktail Recipe Like all good urbanites of a certain type, there's nothing we like better as a way to celebrate autumn than getting out into the countryside and pretending we're farmers for half a day, picking our own apples and pumpkins and taking tractor...
Fall Forward Cocktail Recipe We had a fun time experimenting with this drink. The apple elements were clear from the beginning. We knew we wanted a dry, hard cider, to bring in apple flavor but with a minimum of syrupy-ness. And Baltimore Whiskey Company's 1904 Ginger...
Sweater Weather Cocktail Recipe When the 90 degree weather kept pushing its way further and further into September, we thought autumn might never come, but there's recently been a decided shift in the air. Last week, we finally shut off the AC and opened the windows. Last night,...
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The Story of the Scofflaw The Scofflaw has a great origin story. You can read it all over the internet. It goes like this. In 1923, wealthy banker and fervent temperance advocate Delcevare King sponsored a national contest to come up with the perfect derogatory term for people...
The Waldorf Cocktail Recipe from the Waldorf Astoria Bar Book by Frank Caiafa Did you know that the original Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan started as two separate hotels, the Waldorf and the Astoria? Two Astor cousins tore down their family mansions which were next door to one another,...
