Underhill-Lounge

It’s kind of bizarre when your opinions seem to cross over into the public sphere.
I’ve been privately airing my fears that San Francisco is turning into some sort of Theme Park for rich foodies and overseas investors for some time now.
Today the paper of record weighed in with similar concerns.
Exodus of S.F.’s middle class
“A kind [...]

“The three ingredient cocktail doesn’t lie.”
Audrey Saunders, Pegu Club, New York.

Dunno if you’re watching, but the cooperative blog for Tales of the Cocktail is puttering along with many excellent submissions from fellow drinky bloggers.
Blogging Tales of the Cocktail
I put up a post today about a panel dedicated to the “Life, Drinks, and Legacy of Professor Jerry Thomas”:
Jerry’s Kids
The members of the panel are Ted Haigh, [...]

I don’t normally put up links to articles, but there were a couple articles this week on local sources that you might not see if you aren’t in the Bay Area.
First off, over at line cook, Richie has an absolutely fantastic post called “A Day in the Life” documenting a typical shift at the restaurant [...]

The second annual San Francisco Cocktail Week is fast approaching. Held from May 13th to 19th, just about every bar and bartender in San Francisco seems to be planning something cool.
So far the things I am really excited about are this seminar at the Hotel Rex…
“Literature, Booze and History”
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: The Salon at Hotel [...]

One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is a perceived rise of a boutique ethos among certain bars and bartenders.
It seems like a lot of the controversy or discussion started with this article in the LA Times:
The new rules of cocktails
The age of the cocktail parlor — the modern speak-easy — is here, and patrons [...]

Well, that’s pretty much it for New York.
Another breakfast at Kitchenette, a little loitering, and a cab ride back to the airport.
We hardly made a dent in the long list of places we had wanted to get to or, especially, people to visit.
Thanks to anyone who helped Mrs. Underhill and I out with advice, bought [...]

Saturday we didn’t have much planned, beyond dinner and attending a performance by the Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
One of Mrs. Underhill’s goals for the trip was to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After a most delicious brunch at Upstairs at Bouley, we headed uptown to the Met.
We spent much of the day looking at cultural [...]

As you can well imagine, Thursday morning started a bit slow.
Between being out of sync with the time change and being out late drinking, I was a bit slow getting out of bed.
We were staying in Tribeca, and Mrs. Underhill, having gotten there a bit earlier had already researched the breakfast situation. She had [...]

Mrs. Underhill was called away to work in New York last week.
After going over our options, we decided it would be more fun for me to travel there and meet her, than for her to quick fly back for Valentine’s day.
Before I get to the details of the trip, I just have to say how [...]