Herbal Spritzer Cocktail Recipe As we've been surviving the heat wave on spritzers this week, we've rightly been focused on drinks with a wine base. Wines make by far the most popular spritzers, and it's easy to understand why. The point of spritzers is that they're...
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...
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....
Drink Like the French: Harry's New York Bar in Paris At the beginning of the 20th century, American tourism took off. To ensure that wherever they were these American tourists could find a cocktail, an industry of 'American bars' sprung up around the world, often based in...
Bar Absinthe in French Riviera The neon green sign beckons you into a cozy, cave-like cellar bar that feels like the perfect place to try some absinthe. The hosts are genial, relaxed, and seem like they were born to serve absinthe in a small French bar. The large screen TV which...
French Liqueurs in Provence We spent three nights in the very small, somewhat sleepy, but unbelievably picturesque hilltop village of Bonnieux in Luberon. There are a lot of good things we could say about this tiny town: great views of the Provencal valley, short drives to fields...
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...
Watermelon Tequila Mint Popsicles w. a Champagne Float Exactly one year ago, a friend texted me a picture from her trip to NYC. What was the picture you ask? Generous pours of champagne in wide, stemless glasses, garnished with boozy-filled, ice-cold popsicles. I was literally drooling....
Watermelon Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series, and since then we’ve been working to add to the collection in order to make summer 2016 the. best. summer. ever. You’ve joined us for Watermelon Week because what summer is...