Cocktailians

Category: Seen Elsewhere

  • Drinky Linky: Au Revoir, LeNell

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    The above photo is of LeNell's, looking a little empty, about half an hour before the store (or, rather, the current incarnation of the store) closed down.  It's really more of an au revoir than a goodbye, because after a sojourn in Yurp and elsewhere, LeNell will be back in Brooklyn (despite my entreaties for…

  • Drinky Linky

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    Some interesting stories I've run across lately: The Atlantic reviews the cocktail resurgence, focusing on a Boston bar; The Bitter Truth is coming out with a sloe gin! About.com's cocktails guide has added this humble site to its blogroll (thanks!); Noilly Prat is changing their US formula, and making it the same as their European…

  • Jack Rose

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    Cocktailian Rachel Maddow demonstrates the Jack Rose for New York magazine:

  • Jack Rose

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    Cocktailian Rachel Maddow demonstrates the Jack Rose for New York magazine:

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few cocktail-related links for your holiday perusal: the NYT on the punch revival; 33% of surveyed chefs say that "mixologists and signature cocktails" will be the number-one trend in restaurants in 2009. (Hopefully this means good, balanced mixology and not cloying vodka drinks); I thought this site was an interesting idea — you can…

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few cocktail-related links for your holiday perusal: the NYT on the punch revival; 33% of surveyed chefs say that "mixologists and signature cocktails" will be the number-one trend in restaurants in 2009. (Hopefully this means good, balanced mixology and not cloying vodka drinks); I thought this site was an interesting idea — you can…

  • Attention Must Be Paid

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    Eric Felten at the WSJ on the sad (and enraging) state of most grand hotel bars: Once upon a time, hotel bars set the standard for sophisticated drinking, with barmen who were the best in the business. . .Nowadays you're lucky to find a hotel bartender whose vocabulary extends very far beyond Vodka-Tonic. Over the…

  • Attention Must Be Paid

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    Eric Felten at the WSJ on the sad (and enraging) state of most grand hotel bars: Once upon a time, hotel bars set the standard for sophisticated drinking, with barmen who were the best in the business. . .Nowadays you're lucky to find a hotel bartender whose vocabulary extends very far beyond Vodka-Tonic. Over the…

  • Proof Positive

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    The NYT continues to do good things lately, cocktail-wise: last night they quietly launched Proof, a new blog about "alcohol and American life."  Features, among other authors, Jim Meehan of PDT.

  • Happy Repeal Day

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    To celebrate Repeal Day today, I wrote a piece for NewYorkology on Prohibition in New York and speakeasies both historic and modern.  Do check it out, and hoist a classic cocktail to celebrate.  (Image credit: ProhibitionRepeal.com)