Cocktails for People Who Say Cocktails are 'Too Strong' Some people have firm beliefs about the right way to do cocktails. We're more romantics than ideologues. We just want to help people find the cocktail they're meant to be with. We believe that there's a cocktail...
The Astoria Cocktail Recipe A couple of weeks ago, we featured the original Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktail, The Waldorf. We should have said one of the Waldorf-Astoria's namesake cocktails, because of course the Waldorf-Astoria has two names. As we mentioned, the Waldorf-Astoria was the work of two cousins...
Dexis Consulting Grand Opening One of our favorite things to do is design custom cocktail menus for parties. We think that cocktails that suit the tastes of the host or the theme of the party make the party more special and enjoyable, and are more fun...
The Story of the Scofflaw The Scofflaw has a great origin story. You can read it all over the internet. It goes like this. In 1923, wealthy banker and fervent temperance advocate Delcevare King sponsored a national contest to come up with the perfect derogatory term for people...
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,...
World's Fair Cocktail Recipe Sadly we weren't able to join our friends on their recent return trip to Baldwin & Sons Trading Co; it's a little bit of a journey for them, out to Woburn, but a much bigger one for us. Thankfully, Baldwin & Sons...
O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth. We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...
Where We've Been Drinking: Cava Mezze on Capitol Hill Back in May, we went with a few friends to a fantastic event with a silly name, The Lamb Jam. The Lamb Jam was all-you-can-eat samples of lamb dishes designed by about fifteen local chefs, accompanied by...
Sinner Takes Manhattan Cocktail Recipe One of our proudest moment is when a friend first designs their own cocktail. Back in July, we spent a weekend in New Hampshire with a bunch of college friends. One of them, Dash, had just come back from a trip to...
Americano Cocktail Recipe As so many things do, our week at the end of August immersed in spritzers (here, here, here, here, & here) made us think of the Negroni. According to legend, the Negroni's parent was a spritzer, the Americano. The Americano is a bit fancier...
