Where to Drink

17 Jul South Hollow Spirits Distillery | Cape Cod, MA

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South Hollow Spirits Distillery When we were deliberating two years ago whether or not to move from Boston to DC, the job opportunities and the sense of adventure eventually swayed us in the direction of making the move. But it was no easy decision. To ease...

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09 Jun Where You Should Be Drinking: Nido

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Where You Should Be Drinking: Nido Per the usual in these times, we met fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone online. We've corresponded for months, swapping our thoughts on the things that interest us, like vermouths, production methods, and drinking styles. We consider him a friend, because...

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08 Jun Where You Should Be Drinking: Juliet

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Where You Should Be Drinking: Juliet We mentioned yesterday that we recently celebrated a birthday dinner at Red Hen. Well, that was just birthday dinner one of two. Our birthdays are less than a week apart; so we could, if we wanted, just do one combined...

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07 Jun Where you should be drinking: Red Hen

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Where you should be drinking: Red Hen Red Hen is our place for special occasions. We have a soft spot for it, because it's the place that assured us that DC would treat us well. Our scouting trip to DC happened over our second anniversary, and by...

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05 Jun Where you should be drinking: Centrolina + Amaro Sour Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: DC by Roberts & June

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Where you should be drinking: Centrolina We were headed from work to a show and needed a place for dinner that was on the way from the one to the other. We also wanted the food to be good. And, as always, the chance of a decent...

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25 May Where You Should Be Drinking: Cork

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Where You Should Be Drinking: Cork We can tend to be something of homebodies on the weekends, sticking within walking distance of our Capitol Hill apartment. But we were feeling adventurous a couple of Sundays ago; so we wandered across town to 14th Street for brunch...

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24 May Where You Should Be Drinking: barmini

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Where You Should Be Drinking: DC's barmini With new and interesting places opening up all the time, we can easily be caught up chasing what's hot. In all the hustle, it's easy to forget the places that have been there the whole time, doing what they...

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22 May The Brewery Wonderfulness of Portland, ME

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The Brewery Wonderfulness of Portland, ME I tell people I spent the weekend in Portland for a bachelorette party. "Portland, Oregon!? That's so far to go for a weekend!" While the coolness of what has become of PDX exudes across the country, East Coasters just need to...

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10 May Liquor 101: Irish Whiskey + Glendalough Cocktail Pop-Up at Service Bar

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Building a bar, Liquor 101: Cocktail History, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: DC by Roberts & June

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Liquor 101: Irish Whiskey The Irish may have created whiskey. They also may not have. The Scots stridently argue that they're the original whiskey distillers. Apparently, the vikings also have a claim, though modern Scandinavians don't seem to stake that claim in quite the same way...

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22 Mar Where We’ve Been Drinking: Cherry Blossom Pop Up Pub in Shaw

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Where We've Been Drinking: Cherry Blossom Pop Up Pub in Shaw It's cherry blossom season right now in DC, the time of year when the 3000 trees gifted to Washington, D.C., by the Mayor of Tokyo in 1912 bloom. The Tidal Basin gets overrun by 10s of thousands...

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