One of the fun things about cocktails is that, with so many ingredients and with constant tweaking of proportions, the possibilities are pretty much endless. It's fun, at least, when you're trying cocktails created by an expert. If you're new to mixology, all of that...
Where we've been drinking: Inn at Pamlico, Hatteras North Carolina Part of our transition to DC involved more waiting for and wading through various job prospects than we had originally budgeted for. But maybe all for the best? Somehow we both found ourselves with a few...
Cocktails: Made in the USA? A couple of times now, I've mentioned the idea of drinking a liqueur in the European fashion. Since it keeps coming up, I thought it might be worth elaborating a little. Over the hundreds of years that they've been making liqueurs, continental Europeans...
An Ode to Oleana but first let us tell you about some laws & regulations If you've never called the Bay State home here is something you might not know: Massachusetts doesn't have happy hours. What? Why? How is that possible? Well, our dear home for more than...
My mother. She is my hero for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is times that she is the one to tell us about a new cocktail recipe or lounge. I feel simultaneously grateful (tips are helpful) and further convinced that my mom is a...
The beauties and perils of moving some place new are plentiful. One of our first Saturdays in DC we experienced both. I looked on a map and discovered that Annapolis is only 30 miles away, and I immediately concluded that we should ride our bikes there. Since we didn't...
whether you feel like a sinner, a saint, or both, this is the drink for you Before the Pope was in town and made everyone some combination of inspired, weepy, and sentimental, Nadia Bolz-Weber was in town on a tour for her new book, Accidental Saints....
We've been sharing our recipes, reviews, and bar and party tips for a month now and haven't yet mentioned an essential cocktail tool: the jigger, a tiny measuring cup for bar use. We hope our posts are inspiring you to do some cocktail mixing, and mixing means...
The weekend is here! Has this week felt long to anyone else? Ours has been full, but of entirely good things So who's to complain (except our distant friend, Sleep)? The Pope. The subsequent one time only Federal Pope Holiday as half the city had...
Here's the small, easily overlooked, detail we've actually found to be crucial to a smooth and elegant party: CUP SIZE!...