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 →
Tag: Cocktails
Top SF Openings — February 2017
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 →
11 March Cocktails Around the US Now
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 →
11 February Cocktails Around the US Now
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 →
Two Cocktail Cities On the Rise: Lisbon & Taipei
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 →
11 January Cocktails Around the US Now
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: Woodberry Kitchen, Baltimore August 1 Five, San Francisco Maketto, D.C. The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse, Palo Alto, CA Red’s Chinese, New Orleans Westin Maui, Hawaii Infirmary, NYC WC Harlan, Baltimore Rambler, San Francisco Service Bar,… Read more →
10 Top Denver Bars + Interview with Leopold Bros. & Sean Kenyon
In the Winter 2016-2017 issue of Distiller Magazine on Denver, here are my three articles in a 12-page print spread, including my photos: More of my Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Breckenridge, Aspen) food and drink recommends here.______________________________________ Past issues (top 10 bars, local distiller and bar manager interviews in each city): Save Read more →
NYC: 11 Bars Worth Drinking At Now
This article was first published here at Table8 where I am national editor. Another visit to my youthful stomping grounds of New York (partly growing up in Jersey suburbs) and another round of good to great bars, new and old (past NYC bar recommends and dining reviews here). While there were disappointments (like Garfunkel’s intimate, upstairs setting but mediocre, pricey… Read more →
11 December Cocktails Around the US Now
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US each month at Liquor.com, you’ll find my bar and drink recommends this month at these bars: The Elite Café, San Francisco Agern, NYC Japengo, Laihana, Maui Elixir, San Francisco Oiji, NYC The Morris, San Francisco The Townsend, Austin Minero, Charleston Red Rabbit, Sacramento Leyenda, Brooklyn Sparrow, Chicago For that… Read more →
Top 11 National November Cocktails
As I cover cocktails and bars around the US at Liquor.com, I recently did a feature on 7 of the most notable new bars around the US this fall. Covering the top 11 cocktails of the month around the US each month, you’ll find my bar and drink recommends this month at: Roka Akor, San Francisco Wallflower, NYC Liberty, Seattle… Read more →