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,...
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 2016: Whiskey Hot Toddy 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...
Drink in Boston's Fort Port We've been raving recently about Baldwin & Sons Trading Company, the suburban, Chinese restaurant that is improbably making some of the best cocktails in the Boston area. And we'll say it again: if you live in Boston, it's well worth the...
Whiskey Classics Week: Russell House Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. Today's caught our...
Whiskey Classics Week: Blackthorn Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. One thing we...
Whiskey Classics Recipe: Opening Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. This one has...
Whiskey Classics Week As we were designing 'Such a Nasty Woman' for the Magnus cocktail competition, we found ourselves thumbing for inspiration through Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book, that comprehensive guide to Prohibition era classics. We found that in 1930, like today, gin and rum dominated...