SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Little Orphan Annie (at Cocktail Week) St. George Spirits, the Alameda-based distillery best known for Hangar One vodka and a very expensive but very delicious absinthe, has just come out with three distinctive new gins. SFist had a chance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Cocktail Week, Pig Trotters, S'Mores Tacos Calling all alcoholics artisan cocktail aficionados! San Francisco Cocktail Week kicks off today, and there's no one finer, more knowledgeable, or more likable than Alcademic's Camper English. Allow the noted cocktails and spirits
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 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: Blackberry Shrub We thought we'd keep with this shrub thing after last week's Strawberry Gin Shrub recipe, since it's new to us (and probably you) and is actually quite delicious. At this week's CUESA farmers'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tickets on Sale for Summer Farmers' Market Cocktail Event If you were envious back in May when we talked about the farmers' market cocktail event at the Ferry Building during Cocktail Week, and you didn't make it to the SF Chefs. Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Gin Shrub from NOPA Last night marked the kickoff of this SF Chefs. Food. Wine. event in Union Square, a weekend-long orgasm of culinary grazing, seminar-ing and drinking meant to rival the annual Food & Wine Classic
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: Gitane's Castillan Cup This week's recipe is a decidedly summer libation based on the classic Pimm's Cup, and it comes to us from Carlo Splendorini, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane). The original Pimm's Cup
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Tales of the Cocktail Last week in New Orleans, bartenders and cocktail journalists from around the country gathered for a particularly booze sozzled conference known as Tales of the Cocktail. Highlights included the History of Saloons in
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Cocktail Blog Roundup The current wave of cocktail nerd-dom has reached such great heights that there's a whole cottage industry of cocktail bloggers out there and a whole annual conference (Tales of the Cocktail in New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Old Sydney Town Punch This week's cocktail recipe comes to us from H. Joseph Ehrmann, the bar manager at Elixir and director of Cocktail Ambassadors. Elixir is currently offering a Happy Hour punch deal -- $8 for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Rock & Rye Because we all know the Twain adage about summer in San Francisco, we'll skip it and throw out this recipe for a slightly wintry concoction that comes to us via Greg Lindgren of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Black Lavender from Elixir For those of you amateur mixologists who aren't afraid of muddlers and strainers, we bring you our weekly artisanal cocktail recipe from a San Francisco bartender. This week's cocktail was something concocted by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Barbary Flip This is a special Cocktail Week edition of our weekly drink column, featuring a recipe from the same bartender of our inaugural column, Duggan McDonnell. Duggan is one of the organizers of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks... and Drinks, and Drinks at Cocktail Week Your stalwart correspondents have been enjoying the opening events of SF Cocktail Week, and in particular last night's farmers' market drink event at the Ferry Building, co-hosted by the non-profit Center for Urban
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Boulevard's Biscaccianti This week's drink comes to us from Steven Liles (a.k.a. The Reverend) at Boulevard, who created this recipe using Galliano Authentico to be featured on Boulevard's cocktail menu for the upcoming
