Cocktailians

Category: Drinking Establishments

  • Chartreuse Paris-Vauvert

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    About a year ago, Chartreuse Diffusion, the company that markets the famous herbal liqueur, opened a visitor's center and tasting room in the heart of Paris. Its location, at 128 Boulevard Saint-Germain, was chosen to be as close as possible to the location of the Carthusian monastery of Vauvert and the Jardin du Luxembourg.  The…

  • Chartreuse Paris-Vauvert

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    vidiot
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    About a year ago, Chartreuse Diffusion, the company that markets the famous herbal liqueur, opened a visitor's center and tasting room in the heart of Paris. Its location, at 128 Boulevard Saint-Germain, was chosen to be as close as possible to the location of the Carthusian monastery of Vauvert and the Jardin du Luxembourg.  The…

  • Pegu Club: An Appreciation

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    Every serious cocktailian in NYC and most around the world got some unwelcome news yesterday morning: Audrey Saunders announced that Pegu Club, closed since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, wouldn't reopen. As Saunders put it in her detailed goodbye missive: "we knew the day would eventually come when we would have to say goodbye…

  • Pegu Club: An Appreciation

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    Every serious cocktailian in NYC and most around the world got some unwelcome news yesterday morning: Audrey Saunders announced that Pegu Club, closed since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, wouldn't reopen. As Saunders put it in her detailed goodbye missive: "we knew the day would eventually come when we would have to say goodbye…

  • The Imbible

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    All of us cocktailians — and drinkers generally — have a common hero. More than Harry Craddock, or Jimmy Russell, or Donn Beach, or even Jerry Thomas. No, who we really should bow down to is good ol' Ethyl Alcohol, which lubricates social situations, makes us feel great if we use it right, and has…

  • Uptown Showdown

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    A few days ago, the good people at Hendrick's invited me to accompany them on a bar crawl of Harlem, and having nothing particular of consequence going on that evening, I decided to join up.  The crawl was to promote the Uptown Battle of the Bars, a friendly cocktail competition among 28 different bars in…

  • What Have I Been Drinking Lately?

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    I've had some pretty good drinks in the past couple weeks, and wanted to showcase cocktails from three of the more interesting places I've had them. Thursday night, I had the Summer Silk (formerly the "Maïs d'Été") at Marseille in Manhattan, as part of their Corn Festival — all the restaurants in the Tour de…

  • What Have I Been Drinking Lately?

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    vidiot
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    I've had some pretty good drinks in the past couple weeks, and wanted to showcase cocktails from three of the more interesting places I've had them. Thursday night, I had the Summer Silk (formerly the "Maïs d'Été") at Marseille in Manhattan, as part of their Corn Festival — all the restaurants in the Tour de…

  • Celebrating National Rum Day with Sailor Jerry

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    I wasn't expecting much from the Sailor Jerry's National Rum Day celebration at Mother's Ruin. They weren't launching a new product, just promoting some punches for the back end of Summer, and having a nice get-together for a few of their closest friends[1]. Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins was a tattoo artist who served in the…

  • Speed Rack

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    Liquor and fast women: what's not to love? I should clarify, though: A few days ago, I attended Speed Rack, a fundraiser for breast-cancer research organized by LUPEC NYC's Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero and emceed by USBG's James Menite. It was interesting, because it paired a speed-bartending competition with an appreciation of a quality…