Orchard City Kitchen At Liquor.com, you’ll find my 9 top whisk(e)y cocktails on menus around the country at these bars/restaurants: The Limbo, Louisville Cold Drinks at China Live, San Francisco Proof on Main at 21c Hotel, Louisville Bar Arbolada, Oklahoma City Orchard City Kitchen, Campbell, CA (Silicon Valley) Gunther & Co., Baltimore Bon Voyage!, San Francisco Butchertown Grocery & Lola, Louisville Pinewood Social, Nashville While much of the US is gripped… Read more →
Covering the 11 top gin cocktails around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my top national drinks on menus at these bars/restaurants: Longway, New Orleans Rosa Rosa, Portland, OR Moongate Lounge, San Francisco 67 Orange Street, New York City Watertable at Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach, CA Naive, Louisville Beacon Tavern, Chicago The Alex Craft Cocktail Cellar & Speakeasy, Washington D.C. Supper, San Antonio The Douglas Room, San Francisco (Now Closed) Here’s… Read more →
My latest feature article published March 21, 2019, at Liquor.com on two of the coolest, most creative bars in Bangkok, from my recent travels in Thailand, Teens of Thailand (ToT) and Asia Today. Article here: www.liquor.com/articles/niks-anuman-rajadhon/ Asia Today’s Cocoa, Do You Love Me? cocktail served in a cacao bean cup mixing chocolate bourbon liqueur, Green Chartreuse, ginger beer, dried coconut… Read more →
In my latest print feature at Montecristo Magazine, I dig into Michael Kudra’s forward thinking cocktail and spirits offerings at three Michelin-starred Quince, including his one-of-a-kind saline solution library. Article here: http://montecristomagazine.com/magazine/winter-2018/quinces-saline-solution-library (My past articles for Montecristo: the new Noma 2.0 in Copenhagen; dining in the “New” New Orleans) Read more →
In the Fall 2018 issue of Distiller Magazine on Charleston: More of my Charleston dining and drink recommends/articles here.______________________________________Past issues (top 10 bars, local distiller and bar manager interviews in each city): Read more →
Covering the 10 top holiday cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my top national drinks on menus at these bars/restaurants: Read more →
My latest at Time Out on 10 top “speakeasy” or rather, hidden, bars. Article here. _____________________________________________________________________ ”Speakeasy” is a tired bar term for San Franciscans. Following NYC players like Angel’s Share and Milk & Honey, SF was the earliest in the country to jumpstart the speakeasy trend when Bourbon and Branch opened in 2006. Though the overplayed trend has taken… Read more →
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my top national drinks on menus at these bars/restaurants: DiAnoia’s Eatery, Pittsburgh Mourad, San Francisco Daisies, Chicago Vault, Fayetteville, AR Campo at Los Poblanos Inn, Albuquerque, NM Ash Bar at Nomad.PDX, Portland, OR The Roosevelt Room, Austin Sababa, Washington D.C. Third Rail, San Francisco Vol. 39… Read more →
My 10th year attending Whiskyfest San Francisco (also held in Chicago, D.C. and NYC annually). As with every year, I’ve tasted most of what is in the room over the years, so most whiskies are a revisit for me (here are the previous year’s standouts). With hundreds of whiskies to taste from Scotland, Japan, Ireland, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, India, the… Read more →
After you drink yet another Blood & Sand, Whisky Highball or classic Scotch cocktail, you might be ready for a different kind of whisky imbibement. These 8 national bars and restaurants are serving inspired whisky cocktails worth drinking now, whether infusing grilled artichokes from the kitchen, rounding out other spirits with Scotch’s peaty smoke or going refreshing with Cuban coconut… Read more →