Purple Pisco Daisy Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming temperatures and...
Cole Porter Cocktail Recipe Thumbing through our Waldorf Astoria Bar Book recently, we ran across this nice little variation on a whiskey sour. We like the bit of funk the sherry brings, and we always prefer our sours with an egg white foam; to us, the...
Where We've Been Drinking: The Gibson DC Our first experience of a speakeasy style cocktail lounge was at The Violet Hour in Chicago, and in some ways the Violet Hour still serves as our archetype of the post-modern speakeasy at its best. There was, of course,...
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...
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,...