Jimmie Special Cocktail Recipe We recently found ourselves with a limited bar, but with just as much of an appetite for cocktails as usual. One of the things we happened to have on hand, a bit unusual for us, was champagne--left over from our batch of...
Where to Drink in Naxos Town: Like Home Bar On our recent trip to the island of Naxos, we spent most of our time on the beach, there being so many beautiful ones to choose from. We designated one of our days, though, village and town...
Daiquiri Week: Scandinavian Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe To celebrate the arrival of high summer, we're stocking up on rum and limes and mixing ourselves Daiquiris all week. You might be most familiar with the Daiquiri from it's sloppy mid-modern period in which it was dispensed from slush machines,...
Tiki Week: Not All Rum is the Same We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
A Belated Recognition of Vermouth Blanco It's time for us to make a confession: we're cheaters. Some of our very earliest posts (here and here) were a bracket-style tournament of vermouths. Though we called one side of the bracket 'The Whites,' it was more precisely a...
Lyon's Liqueurs: Beersky A while ago, Lyon Distilling, a rum maker on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was kind enough to provide us with samples of most of their products. We had such a good time tasting, experimenting with, and writing about their excellent and interesting rums that...
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...
12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Snowcone Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities with twelve...
Whiskey Classics Week: Blackthorn Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. One thing we...
The Waldorf Cocktail Recipe from the Waldorf Astoria Bar Book by Frank Caiafa Did you know that the original Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan started as two separate hotels, the Waldorf and the Astoria? Two Astor cousins tore down their family mansions which were next door to one another,...