Negroni Week! We were recently remarking on the proliferation of new 'holidays.' Things seem to be getting a little crazy. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Sibling Day until my sister, who's more up on these things than I, posted a...
Cocktail Recipe: The Gimlet+Bonus French Gimlet One of the keys to cocktail happiness is having a Standby Drink. Say you find yourself at a downscale hotel bar, or the 19th Hole at a golf course, or a banquet hall, or the like. Alcohol is being served,...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: the Greyhound Rescue Highball Week may have ended on Friday, but our enthusiasm for tall, ice-filled glasses hasn't. Maybe something that we should have mentioned during highball week is that, in case you want to try to design your own highball, the...
Highball Week: Negroni Swizzle Cocktail Recipe We're suckers for a Negroni. We, as we've mentioned, love the way that it's finely balanced proportions invite experimentation; but we also love it in its original form, with bitter Campari and sweet and sour vermouth playing off of one...
Old Fashioned Week: Honey You So Sweet Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe One of the many pleasures of our evening serving old fashioneds on K Street was being introduced to a new distiller in our general area. The guys at Baltimore Whiskey Company were kind enough to...
Cocktail Recipe: Mom Look What I Made! Have you heard that Mother's Day is this coming Sunday? I have. All of the podcasts I listen to keep telling me that Mother's Day has snuck up on me. At first I dismissed them because Mother's Day was...
Where We've Been Drinking: Jaleo It seems like when friends come to town we find ourselves at Jaleo. It's convenient to downtown and all of the touristy stuff. It has outdoor seating. Tapas is always fun. And the drinks are good. We ended up at Jaleo...
NOLA Week: Ramos Gin Fizz Inspired by some research for a New Orleans themed party that never happened, we're spending the week celebrating New Orleans' long and illustrious relationship with the cocktail. Yesterday, we kicked off the week with a New Orleans inspired recipe of our...
Fortified Wine Week: Introduction A little while ago, we did a post on the three basic alcoholic building blocks of a cocktail: spirits, liqueurs, and fortified wines. We discussed the part each of them plays in your cocktail, and tried to help you get a sense of...
Drink of the Week: The Jamison For the PEN/Faulkner event we mentioned yesterday, along with a drink in honor of Faulkner himself we designed one for each of the two featured authors. Today's drink is named after Leslie Jamison. Neither of us has read any of Jamison's work, though a...
