Martini Week: The Martinez A drink for history lovers It's generally thought that the Martinez is the mother of the martini. We don't have any actual proof of this. We don't know where or when this happy birth might have happened, or who the bartender who assisted in...
Martini Week We love it when we get a chance to party with WeWork, the cool shared office place where all of the creative, millenial entrepreneurs (and Brian) go to work. We've done a few events at various WeWork before (here and here and here); so...
The Zombie Cocktail When Prohibition was lifted in the 1930s, US bartenders were eager to get the party started, but they had a supply problem. With US production halted for more than ten years, where would they get their spirits? Don the Beachcomber had the answer:...
El Presidente Cocktail Drink, on Boston's seaport, was the city's first truly great cocktail bar. It has a lot more competition now than it did when it first opened; so it's no longer head and shoulders above its competition. Who knows, the best cocktail bar in...
Guest Post: Super Easy Homemade Grenadine + Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe When we posted not so long ago about just how shockingly simple it is to make your own simple syrup, our friend Annalaura mentioned that she has a similar recipe for making your own grenadine....
Drinking in the French Style As you may have noticed from our 2-week gap in posting, we had the enormous privilege and pleasure of spending the first half of July in France. It was our first trip there. We, of course, went into the trip with...
Gin Sling Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking our way along the evolution of the cocktail, from those old fashioned mixtures of a spirit, sugar, and something else, to bubbly highballs, and eventually to the fancy, straight up drinks we now think of as 'cocktails.' And...
Negroni Week: The Contessa Cocktail Recipe It's Negroni Week! All around the world, 5000 bars and restaurants are serving up their favorite version or variant of this beloved classic cocktail, and giving the profits to charity. We're joining in the fun, by posting our own Negroni...
Negroni Week! We were recently remarking on the proliferation of new 'holidays.' Things seem to be getting a little crazy. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Sibling Day until my sister, who's more up on these things than I, posted a...
Cocktail Recipe: The Gimlet+Bonus French Gimlet One of the keys to cocktail happiness is having a Standby Drink. Say you find yourself at a downscale hotel bar, or the 19th Hole at a golf course, or a banquet hall, or the like. Alcohol is being served,...