Let's Not Put a Label on It Cocktail Recipe When we went to Hank's on the Hill to do our photo shoot for our article on Cook's Cook about reading a cocktail menu, it wasn't strictly necessary that the drinks taste good. They just needed to...
Red Pilot Cocktail Recipe In our long journey to fully embracing mezcal, the Red Pilot was our gateway cocktail. While we've now gained a taste for the full-throated smokiness of a mezcal-based drink, and learned how to pick out the one's we'll enjoy, there was a...
Where You Should Be Drinking on the Outer Cape: Blackfish When we're on Cape Cod, which we recently were, we're creatures of habit. Set routines and familiar rhythms help us slip into relaxation mode more quickly. So, we stay at the same cottage in the same...
Mezcalada Cocktail Recipe This week, we're applying our mixing skills to beer. We know we're sledding uphill. Most people prefer their beer taken unmixed, and many beer mixed drinks are an acquired taste. But give us a chance. People have been mixing beer in drinks for...
Tasting St. Raphael Quinquina Let's talk about Quinquinas. A few days ago, we mentioned that Cocchi Americano is a quinquina, not a vermouth, and arguably therefore should never have been allowed in our Vermouth Taste-Off tournament. That might have left you with a couple of questions: 'What exactly...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Sazon in Santa Fe Stop. Stop what you're doing, and book a trip to Santa Fe. I went there last year and fell in love (here and here). And then I went there again this year, and my love grew all...
Maximilian Affair Cocktail Recipe A couple of weeks ago, when we used the Maximilian Affair in our glass rinsing experiment, we realized to our great shock that we've never posted its recipe. It's one of our all-time favorite drinks, even making it on to our wedding...
Where to Drink NYC Edition: Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria It was our anniversary. So we took a long overdo trip to the Big Apple. Needing to make up for lost time, the theme to our trip was, you guessed it, cocktails (and plenty of food,...
Where We've Been Drinking Suburban Edition: Mago Grill and Cantina As we mentioned Monday, we used our holiday trip home to the suburbs to do a little investigation of suburban drinking. Had the cocktail renaissance come to the suburbs? And if so, how are cocktails the same and...
Where We've Been Drinking: Quarter + Glory A few days ago, we got together for drinks with some friends. One of those friends suggested Quarter+Glory. None of the rest of us had run across this place yet, but it was pretty conveniently located and our friend...