Liquor 101: Whipped Cream Dispenser I know it's a little late to say so, but we hope you had a merry Christmas. We sure did. Among other things, we were given a bunch of new cocktail toys that we're sure we'll be sharing with you. Without...
No Jacket Required Cocktail Recipe On our trip to Eatbar, the No Jacket Required really caught our eye, though we weren't quite in the mood for it that particular night. It stuck in our minds, though, and we've actually made it for ourselves several times since. Mind...
Where We've Been Drinking: Chicago's Monteverde While we enjoyed our investigation of suburban cocktails over the holiday week, we couldn't bear being so close to such a great city as Chicago without at least checking in. So, we took a brief side trip to get a...
Where We've Been Drinking Suburban Edition: Francesca's As we mentioned Monday, we used our holiday trip home to the suburbs to do a little investigation of suburban drinking. Had the cocktail renaissance come to the suburbs? And if so, how are cocktails the same and how are they...
Where We've Been Drinking Suburban Edition: Mago Grill and Cantina As we mentioned Monday, we used our holiday trip home to the suburbs to do a little investigation of suburban drinking. Had the cocktail renaissance come to the suburbs? And if so, how are cocktails the same and...
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: 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...
