Magnus Cocktail Competition & 'Such a Nasty Woman' Cocktail Recipe Ever since our delightful visit to Joseph A. Magnus' Murray Hill Club, we've been looking for a good excuse to buy ourselves a bottle of their beautiful Bourbon. We've wanted that bottle of Magnus because it's...
'Hoots Mon' Cocktail Recipe We follow trends and go through moods. As autumn hits, for instance, we've found ourselves frequently reaching for the Amaro Nonino; there's just something about it's caramel toned mild bitterness that says, 'Fall, you're alright,' to us. But as much as we're creatures...
Into the Woods Cocktail Recipe Thumbing through our old recipes, we ran across this one. We can't remember who taught us this drink, and we couldn't even remember what it tasted like. But we were intrigued enough to mix one up, and--while wishing that we'd taken...
The Savoy Gimlet Cocktail Recipe One of our bedrock beliefs is that a cocktail does not have to be high-proof to be serious, sophisticated, and delicious. In an effort to steer lower octane drinkers toward satisfying drinks, last week we proposed a system for substituting base spirits...
Pumpkin Vodka Martini Cocktail Recipe Last week, we did some experiments infusing spirits with pumpkin. We infused the vodka simply as a point of comparison with our main object, rum. But it end up turning out pretty well, with an actual fresh pumpkin flavor quite distinct from...
Cocktails for People Who Say Cocktails are 'Too Strong' Some people have firm beliefs about the right way to do cocktails. We're more romantics than ideologues. We just want to help people find the cocktail they're meant to be with. We believe that there's a cocktail...
The Astoria Cocktail Recipe A couple of weeks ago, we featured the original Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktail, The Waldorf. We should have said one of the Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktails, because of course the Waldorf-Astoria has two names. As we mentioned, the Waldorf-Astoria was the work of two cousins...
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...