Vodka is a tough one — a favorite of those who “don’t like the taste of liquor” and oft-maligned by spirits geeks, in the right bartender hands, vodka cocktails can still be standouts on a given menu. Here are 11 around the country that impressed me lately from my regular Liquor.com articles: Read more →
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, I also am talking tequila this May. Here are 11 bars around North America (click on each for the featured cocktail) making standout tequila cocktails now: Read more →
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my bar and drink recommends this month at these bars (click on each for the featured cocktail): Springtime means bartenders are playing with shiso, jalapeno, mango and crème de coconut but also with year-round elements like funky-elegant rancio sec wine or silky lemon oils. Whether… Read more →
March (finally) brought the ambitious, long-anticipated China Live to Chinatown (which I wrote about numerous times from Food Republic to Zagat). The month also delivered another major beer restaurant: Hitachino Beer & Wagyu (in its soft opening mode so will be in consideration for top openings of April as it officially “opens”), and cocktail-centric restaurant, The Douglas Room. Other notable March… Read more →
My January 12 Liquor.com feature article on Lisbon’s burgeoning cocktail scene and deep dive at Red Frog Speakeasy, including an interview with bar manager Paulo Gomes here. https://www.liquor.com/articles/red-frog-speakeasy-lisbon/#gs.jEADmZk Read more →
My December 29, 2017, Liquor.com feature article on Taipei’s burgeoning cocktail scene and a deep dive into the bar East End, including an interview with bar manager Nick Wu here. Read more →
February brought more notable openings, including another two beer-centric restaurants — Fermentation Lab and Woods Outbound (Woods Beer’s outer Sunset location) — as well as two major cocktail bar openings, Rusted Mule and Over Proof inside ABV (my Liquor.com feature on Over Proof here). Standout restaurant openings of February were Glena’s, Bayou Creole Kitchen & Rotisserie and ROOH. I have… Read more →
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my bar and drink recommends this month at these bars (click on each for the featured cocktail): Read more →
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my bar and drink recommends this month at these bars: Tartine Manufactory, San Francisco Long Island Bar, Brooklyn Eat the Rich, Washington D.C. Catherine & Mary’s, Memphis Midnight Rambler, Dallas Oak at Fourteenth, Boulder ‘Aina, San Francisco 2 Birds 1 Stone, Washington D.C. The Front… Read more →
On two different continents, in two wildly different cities — Lisbon, Portugal, and Taipei, Taiwan — a small few pioneers and a recent influx of strong cocktail bars finally usher in the cocktail renaissance to cities that might be well behind others on their continents. But watch: these two cities’ drink scenes are primed to blossom… quickly. Here are my… Read more →