Category: bars
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Bars, Restaurants, and Sights of Lima, Peru
In 2014 I visited Peru with Pisco Porton. In this post, I wanted to write up some places I visited in the city of Lima. I was only in town for about a day in a half, so I didn't see much. Cocktail Bars and Restaurants in Lima Johnny Schuler's Key Club This restaurant is sort…
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Name These 12 Lost San Francisco Bars
Can you identify these 12 no-long-existing San Francisco watering holes?
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Sacramento Drink Scene Story is Now Up on ImbibeMagazine.com
That big feature I wrote on Sacramento's cocktail, coffee, and craft beer scene has gone up on the magazine's website. Even if you're not a subscriber (and you really should be), you can read the story online here. Related articles Drink Books Published in 2013 in Consideration for Gifting or Reading Ginger Beer Cocktails…
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The Cocktail Menu for ABV in San Francisco, Opening Later This Week
While they haven’t crossed all the T’s and dotted the I’s (or added the prices) to it, the good folks at ABV in San Francisco let me photograph their new menu.
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Gamsei, A Hyperlocal Molecular Mixology Bar in Munich
I've been bursting waiting for the Saveur 100 issue to come out so I could write more about Gamsei, a bar I visited in Munich this fall and included in the January issue of the magazine. The story is now online at Saveur.com, with a lot more info below. Gamsei comes from Matt Bax,…
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SF Bar Write-Ups: Mikkeller Bar, Brass Tacks, The Cavalier
For the website WorldsBestBars.com I write up new (good) bars opening in San Francisco. For November I covered: The Cavalier, a fancy hotel bar/restaurant downtown Brass Tacks, the Hayes Valley bar in the former Marlena's Mikkeller Bar, a downtown beer bar where the staff are actually nice Check out the write-ups here. Related articles…
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High-Tech Bar Equipment on PopSci.com
In a slideshow for Popular Science, I wrote about ten pieces of bar equipment you not know about as they're hidden behind the scenes. The story includes equipment used by some of the world's most innovate bartenders and includes equipment including rotovaps, machine-engraved ice, sous-vide cooking, and many others. Check it out on PopSci.com!
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Breakfast Cereal in Cocktails is as Pretty Big Thing
In my latest post for Details.com, I took a look at the multitude of ways that people are using breakfast cereal in cocktails. Initially I thought I'd only find it in a few places but I think there are more than a dozen mentioned in the story and they're located everwhere from London to Bordeaux…
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ABV, A Forthcoming SF Bar from Dalva, Beretta Folks
Coming not-so-soon (January most likely) in the former Tokyo GoGo spot on 16th Street in the Inner Mission of San Francisco will be the bar ABV. ABV is a partnership between Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud (owner of Dalva, Dalva Hideout), Ryan Fitzgerald (former Beretta bar manager and Del Maguey Mezcal brand ambassador), and Todd Smith (bartender at Dalva…
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A Dramatic Video About Ice from The Aviary
Here's a video from Chicago's molecular mixology bar The Aviary with cool slow-motion shots of ice. And here is an index of all of the ice experiments on Alcademics.