SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Western Edition at Jardinière Pull up a stool to enjoy this week's cocktail, kids, from Jardinière's bar manager Brian MacGregor, and its name is a play on both the neighborhood the restaurant calls home, The Western Addition,
SF News Which Bar Has the Meanest Bartenders? City Brights blogger Harmon Leon (ahem) poses the question of where to find the surliest and most outright rude barmen and barmaids around town. His answer: Zeitgeist wins, hands down, but he has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Vesper Cocktail at Heaven's Dog Though the cocktail menu at Heaven's Dog is always fantastic (and we dare say more notable than the food, though Charles Phan recently took over the kitchen at his Chinese restaurant after the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Fleur de Pepin at Era Art Bar in Oakland Era Art Bar and Lounge is a truly beautiful and HUGE new cocktail venue that just opened a few weeks ago on Grand & Broadway in Oakland about four blocks from the Fox
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Balsamic'tini at Joe DiMaggio's Tiffany Maleshefski over at The Examiner has been doing a charming series where she interviews local mixologists and prints one of their recipes. Last week she talked to Elmer Mejicanos, the Nicaraguan-born bartender
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: La Lambretta at Quince This week's cocktail which we could really use one of right now, can I hear you say YEAH, SFist readers? TGIF! comes from the bar consultants at Quince, Scott Baird and Josh Harris,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Recoil at Bloodhound We recently had a simple and delicious drink at Bloodhound that's kind of like a cross between a whiskey sour and a bourbon-and-ginger (does that drink have an official name, btw?) with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: La Perla at Fifth Floor Jacques Bezuidenhout is responsible for the new cocktail program at Fifth Floor, which includes a lot of interesting twists on clean, classic cocktail fare. Today he offers us the recipe for a drink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Parlor's 'DiVine' Cocktail We figured you needed a couple weeks' hiatus from drinking after the holidays and all, but SFist Drinks returns today with a cocktail from Michael McDonagh, beverage director at Fisherman's Wharf-adjacent bar/club
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Piccadilly at Absinthe Newly installed bar manager at Absinthe, Carlos Yturria (formerly of Range, Bacar and Rye), has come up with several specialty cocktails for the board in his first weeks on duty. Our favorite is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Smuggler's Cove Opens Tonight Martin Cate, Tiki historian and former proprietor of Forbidden Island in Alameda, opens his newest venture Smuggler's Cove (650 Gough Street) to the public this evening. A couple weeks back we ran one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Yuletide Moon from Elixir With Xmas swiftly approaching, we could all use a drink. And in our quest for seasonal libations, SFist brings you this holiday spin on sangria from H. Joseph Ehrmann at Elixir. In his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Greatest Tiki Bar on Earth" to Open December 8 Martin Cate, the man behind Smuggler's Cove, has announced that the long awaited grand opening of his Hayes Valley Tiki experience will be December 8. The bar's going to feature cocktail recipes from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A New-School Cocktail Glossary A couple months back we attended a panel discussion that included local cocktail blogger and booze aficionado Camper English (he of Alcademics fame), and as a hand-out Camper prepared a locally-based glossary, if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Spruce Goose from Spruce Today's culinary cocktail tour of SF takes us to the far reaches of the Presidio (and Brock's favorite restaurant) Spruce, where bar manager Brandon Clements has created a dual-sided cocktail menu that highlights
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Autumn Apple Cocktail from Cyrus With his book Artisanal Cocktails, local startender Scott Beattie established himself as a leading figure of West Coast-style, farmers-market-driven cocktail creation. And as the drink specialist at Healdsburg's Cyrus, Scott championed the building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Pisco Sol from Pisco Lounge A new local fave for it's hip-casual vibe, tasty drinks and lively crowd, Pisco Latin Lounge was founded by James Schenk, chef-owner of next-door "nuevo Latino" restaurant Destino. It won recognition as a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Five-Spice Margarita at Cantina Though we've certainly not completed our cocktail tour of San Francisco, our Friday drink column is coming full circle after inaugurating itself back in March with Cantina's Laughing Buddha. We return to Cantina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Improved Sunrise from Rickhouse Rickhouse (246 Kearny), the recently opened Financial District cocktail haven by the guys who brought us Bourbon & Branch, is already drawing crowds in the post-3 p.m. hours after the markets close.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Smokin' Stoned Fruit from Reza Esmaili of Conduit The cocktail menu at Conduit, designed by bar manager (and recently elected President of the U.S. Bartending Guild) Reza Esmaili, tends toward seasonally appropriate and well-balanced flavors that pair well with food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Promissory Note from The Alembic If you break down contemporary cocktail culture as aficionados like Camper English are wont to do, you may be inclined to generalize that East Coast style (inspired lately by NYC joints like Milk
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Naughty Sun Dress from Bourbon & Branch Joel Baker, bar manager at the three-year-old speakeasy Bourbon & Branch -- which has already landed twice on Esquire's Best Bars in America list -- and bar consultant behind Future Bars, gives us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Sexy Saint This week's drink comes to us from Sierra Zimei, bartender at The Four Seasons, who created a drink that, appropriately for the venue, goes with all seasons. As Sierra says, "It's a great
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Rio Grande Cocktail at 15 Romolo 15 Romolo -- which is tucked up on Romolo Place, half a steep block above Broadway -- has recently undergone a facelift and change of management, and it's a refreshingly warm and civilized
