Tag: Bars

Two Female Bartenders With A Perspective You Can Taste in the Glass: For the Record & Members Only

A few elements must align to come into one’s own voice and it’s never a one-time deal but an ongoing evolution. Maturity, experience and time are the oft-discounted but key factors to holistic integration for those pursuing it. However, other crucial pieces include timing and the right platform/s from which to express one’s voice…

Normally, this Friday review is devoted to restaurants: and both these new bars serve food, so we’ll get into that. But this week, it’s more about drink menus on par with great food and about two women coming into their voice on their current menus: Read more →

Los Angeles Travel: Spring 2022 Coffee, Snacks & Drinks Guide

My fall 2021 return to Los Angeles, the region I partly grew up in and spent over 12 years of my youth and, later, young adulthood living in was a busy one. I visited over 35 places, from cafes and coffee roasters, to restaurants and eateries — like pre-pandemic times. While the bar scene was clearly struggling on the service end even more than restaurants were, restaurants were coming back to life.

Here’s the good, the bad and the damn delicious: Read more →

Distiller Magazine: Louisville Top 10 Bars + Local Distiller & Bar Manager Interviews

In the Summer 2021 print issue of Distiller Magazine: My article on 10 of Louisville’s best bars below (online here) Louisville and Kentucky’s distilling and drink evolution (linked to here) My interview with bar manager/owner Olivia Rose Griffin of the Limbo and Riot Cafe below (online here) My interview with Jeptha Creed distiller Joyce Nethery below (online here) BARS FEATURED:—Meta, Butchertown… Read more →

Distiller Magazine: Michigan Interviews with Long Road Distillers & Bar Manager of Kiesling in Detroit

In the Winter 2020-2021 print issue of Distiller Magazine: My article on 10 of the world’s best bars and how they are surviving and recreating in pandemic here Fruit & Fire: A Napa winemaker & Kentucky distiller pioneer with smoke tainted grapes in smoked brandies here My interview with Grand Rapids’ Long Road Distillers‘ Kyle VanStrein and Jon O’Connor below and online… Read more →