Living La Vida Tapa
Get your ticket to Albert and Ferran Adria’s newest Barcelona restaurant where you’ll create your own tapas tasting menu then wash it down with customized cocktails at their bar next door.
Found: Cocktail Equilibrium
Create balance in your cocktail glass with tips from craft cocktail gurus Bittercube and the use of unlikely ingredients H2O and ice.
The Bourbon Renaissance
If you think your sideboard is worthy of staging its own revival, check out Paul Mathew’s The Hide bar in London. In his upstairs laboratory, his weapons of choice include rigged bong-like smokers, tea strainers, straps of leather and wine barrel shavings. Viva la revolución.
Up Close and Raw
Cocktail Talk with Andrew Noye
01.26.11 by Stacy
We gave the Blackberry Farm mixologist a topic — apples aren’t just for cobblers anymore — and asked him to discuss. Part 4 of a 5-part mixology series on using Mother Nature’s finest more innovatively. Go ahead, read amongst yourselves.
read moreOh Frankie You’re So Fine
01.14.11 by Stacy
You blow our mind. Your handiwork behind the bar — cocktails with jelly cubes, bonfires, smokes, essences, mists, foams, raviolis — should come with a warning: The experience you’re about to have will rock your gray matter. Yes, BarChef, please mess with our heads.
read moreNew York-Inspired Wedding Day Cocktails
01.10.11 by Shirley
Meet Sasha Petraske, the mixologist credited with the resurgence of the speakeasy menu. He shares two recipes for his-and-hers (much-needed) matrimonial drinks. Cue the Proud Mary, this reception will rock.
read moreThe Violet Hour Mantra: Fill it to the Rim with Pimm’s
01.07.11 by Shirley
When a mix-master of cool champions a cocktail — even one with a seemingly suspect hip factor — we listen. Toby Maloney, the genius tending Chicago’s most stylish mixology den, tells us why he’s single-handedly spurring the rebirth of Pimm’s, one cup at a time. Count us in.
read moreAsk The Bon Vivants
01.06.11 by Shirley
Spicing it up with San Francisco’s cocktail ambassadors.
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