Picture Orlando, Florida. If the first—and maybe sole—thing that came to mind was screaming kiddos and adults in princess costumes, you’ve only experienced one side of town. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three very cold Orlando cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
The oyster-meets-cocktail bars that are opening across the country today all seem to focus on absinthe and the refined, pinkies-up saloons of centuries past. Eat the Rich oyster and cocktail bar in Washington, D.C., however, is not one of those bars.
Three months ago my house was robbed. Luckily no one was home at the time—just my valuables!—but afterwards I installed an expensive home security system (and lots of “Beware of Dog” signs). Now I feel less vulnerable, even if it means I spend a big chunk of my paycheck for that feeling of security.
In Colonial times, Americans shared bowls of alcoholic punch to pass the time, cure their ailments and celebrate their victories. The founding fathers guzzled down 76 kinds of punch after signing the Declaration of Independence.
In the mid-1800s St. Louis, Missouri, was one of the greatest cocktail cities in America. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three interesting St. Louis cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
Nothing beats a good drink to ease the tension of being on an airplane, but you don't have to settle for what's on the beverage cart. With a little forethought, you can easily mix your own mile-high cocktails.
We’re not going to fight it: Asheville, North Carolina, is a beer city. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three solid Asheville drinks, show you where some nice people will make them for you and even how to replicate one of them at home.
In most large cities it’s easy to find a bar or restaurant inside a centuries-old building. But not so in Atlanta.
A crowned prince and a foreign minister walk into a bar. They slurp down some oysters, share a few glasses of Glenmorangie single malt and then when the check comes, they playfully fight over who will pay the bill. This sounds like the set up to a joke, but when it happened in real life, at Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Washington, D.C., body guards flanked the table, intervening to make sure it didn’t turn into an international incident.
On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three fun, oh-so-San Diego cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
San Diego’s Polite Provisions may look like an old-time soda fountain, but it’s churning out one of the most cutting-edge cocktail programs in the world.
Tiki bars are not a retro fad. They are a valid movement in America’s pop art history, says Martin Cate, owner of Smuggler’s Cove tiki bar in San Francisco. To this tiki historian and rum aficionado, the original tiki bar movement of the 1950s spoke to something very specific in the American psyche, and its modern resurgence does too.
Austin, Texas’s reputation precedes it. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three crafty-yet-approachable Austin cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
Dante is an Italian cocktail bar run by Australians and located in New York City. Did you follow all of that?
Matt O’Reilly, owner of Republic in Minneapolis, will be the first to tell you his bar is not for everyone. “We send a clear message: quality over popularity,” he says. “We don’t sell Budweiser. We don’t need to sell Budweiser.”
The iconic parts of Las Vegas are like Bourbon Street meets Times Square meets South Beach meets Epcot. You got all that, right? On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three grown-up Las Vegas cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home—because not everything that happens in Vegas has to stay there.
Most visitors to Las Vegas are content spending all of their time bar-hopping along The Strip. But ask some locals where they like to drink and one name will keep coming up: Velveteen Rabbit.
When people from Mexico walk into The Pastry War agave bar in Houston, they often ask the bartenders: Is your owner Mexican?
In laid-back Fort Worth, Texas, people like to drink beer, bourbon and sometimes tequila. That’s about it. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three only-in-Ft. Worth cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
