The Sassafras saloon transports Savannah to Sunset. Newish Sassafras, in the heart of Hollywood (at Sunset and Vine), from the people who brought you the Bigfoot Lodge, is our new clubhouse. There’s nothing like it in L.A. nightlife. It feels … Read More
Yes, you can finally order a vodka soda without being 86’d by some mustachioed barkeep at a mixology bar. So says Robert Simonson in The New York Times last week, in an article titled “A Good Drink, Hold the Pretense,” … Read More
Bespoke bookbinders Thornwillow publish singular drink recipes in unforgettable libretto imprints. We’ll drink to that! This spring, be a gentleman in repose, by keeping in your wet bar several “neat” volumes of Manhattan-based stationer-bookmaker’s pocket-sized custom-designed booklets, featuring the recipes … Read More
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right? Our list of Top 5 Happy Hours will please the beer lover, cocktail connoisseur or wine aficionado. You’ll find a happy hour in this week’s FiDi Top 5 worthy of setting up a “late meeting” … Read More
Tommy Bahamas’ new Marlin Bar is aging its own rum drinks! …And not just regular ole rum, but rum cocktail concoctions are held within that row of oak barrels behind the Marlin Bar up there on Fifth Avenue at the … Read More
Winter weather is no excuse to sit inside and twiddle your thumbs. We’re all craving summer, complete with cocktails and epic rooftop views, and it’s time to do something about it. We’re heading up to 6 Columbus for a touch … Read More
Virgin America debuts its uber-jet-setty new Loft lounge at LAX. We’re so there, man. It just opened, and you can get a day-or-night pass to sample those “Lofty Libations.” Here’s a sneak peek. Mister Branson, you’re taking air travel back … Read More
David Lynch’s limited-edition Dom Perignon bottles hit your premium local liquor stores: Two twin peaks you might want to cache away for a dark-and-stormy night watching ‘Blue Velvet.’ Goes down…smooth… About the design—and his favorite things–we interviewed the inimitable Mr. … Read More
Fat City fetes a decade of fancy drink making. It’s not too late to dive in to this sophisticatedly dirty drinkathon, down in New Orleans, where 20,000 bartenders and booze hounds have landed to learn the latest in cocktail culture and … Read More
The Blue Piano is one chill summer wine bar When in Miami, we try to eschew the disco-ball nightclubs on South Beach. Check out The Blue Piano Music Lounge & Wine Bar, which is off the beaten path in the … Read More
Hollywood’s olde and shabby Ye Coach & Horses gets a makeover and transformation into a true new-Brit bistro and bar. Thanks to Guest of a Guest, here’s a look inside and outside The Pikey, on Sunset Boulevard, housed in a … Read More
From Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” to the backwoods and back rooms of “Justified” and ‘Boardwalk Empire’—and culminating in the upcoming film “The Wettest County”—the whole country’s gone punch drunk over old-timey alcohol. And now it’s the Establishment antidote for a posse … Read More
Guy walks into a bar, girl walks into a bar: Daniel Boulud’s new drinks and canapé books have the poison for both. Split between “For Him” and “For Her”—is Daniel Boulud Cocktails and Amuse-Bouches, a drinks and small bites guide … Read More
‘The Savoy Cocktail Book’ and ‘The PDT Cocktail Book’ are the go-to drink recipe tomes for X-mas and onward, no! And they have pictures inside too! Remember the good ole days when cocktail books used illustrations to, well, illustrate, drinks? … Read More
Caulfield’s opens at Thompson Beverly Hills. With the opening of Caulfield’s restaurant and bar at Thompson Beverly Hills, the area known as Agent’s Row gains some gustatory and literary cache. Caulfield’s makes its mark on the American culinary experience with … Read More
