Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
One of the drinks included in “Food & Wine Cocktails 2008″ is Martin Cate’s version of the classic Trader Vic drink the Fog Cutter
Taking the opportunity of a friend’s band (The awesome Project Pimento!) playing at Forbidden Island, I stopped by to try the drink in question.
Le Fog Cutter. Tasty! I’d not [...]
I was lucky to be invited to the opening party last night for San Francisco’s newest cocktail and food establishment, Beretta.
While I am still puzzling over the connection between Pizza and Cocktails, there is no questioning the mightiness of the cocktail list Thad Vogler has created or impressive array of staff he has assembled to [...]
Field trips to unusual locations…
…Tropical Islands where pagan gods hold sway…
…Mysterious Elixirs…
…Madness I tell you, madness…
…Traffic when Island hopping surely sucks…
…late night noshing options are limited…
…and oh, yes, I really needed that last beer.
…Mr. DeMille.
Resurrecting spirits, Camper English
“Last year, Erik Ellestad, a cocktail aficionado and systems administrator at UCSF, decided to drink his way through a classic recipe book.”
Yet another chapter in my absurd life…
A quick trip to Portland, Oregon, this last weekend.
I’d read about Bailey’s Taproom on some Portland forum or another. It recently opened across the street from the restaurant we were dining at later in the evening, Saucebox. A nice selection of what I would call “Extreme” beers. Beers from Stone, Russian River, [...]
The first Monday of every month Jon Gasparini and Greg Lindgren of Rye bar in San Francisco host a competition for bartenders.
An ingredient is chosen, usually working with a spirits company, and the bartenders create original cocktails featuring that ingredient. The winning cocktail goes on the menu at Rye.
This month I was lucky enough [...]
