Underhill-Lounge

This is the first of what I hope is an ongoing series on the Underhill-Lounge.
I experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2 earlier this year; but, this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact [...]

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 [...]

I have met a couple folks via the food and cocktail forums on eGullet over the years.
A couple guys I knew from their foodblogs and cocktail posts were John Deragon and Don Lee. Serious foodies and tech workers who moonlight as bartenders at PDT, I dropped them a note to see if they would [...]

Last year some Wisconsin friends sent me an article about a new vodka from a company called Death’s Door Spirits. I was intrigued, mostly because it sounded like the company was distilling the base for its vodka themselves from locally grown wheat.
Later we found out that Death’s Door was also going to produce a [...]