SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Washingtonian Adds Butter to Fernet, Creates Hot Buttered Fernet Against everyone's better judgement a bartender at Swing Wine Bar in Olympia, Washington has created an unholy cold weather cocktail that sounds like something out of a Paula Deen fever dream. The concoction
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Wild Child At B Restaurant & Bar B Restaurant & Bar has been a bright cocktail oasis in Old Oakland for quite a few years now. They've got a new cocktail menu these days, and the concoction below is one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Flash Gordon At Haven Over in Oakland, chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson has just opened a fourth new restaurant, after just recently opening Plum Bar next to his one-year-old Plum at Webster and Broadway (he also owns the Michelin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: AQ's New Amsterdam #1 So, check it out: There's a new restaurant in central SoMa, directly across Mission Street from the 9th Circuit, and it's called AQ (1085 Mission Street between 6th and 7th). They're taking the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Seasonal Punch At Harry Denton's Starlight Room What better time of year to do a little hotel-bar drinking around Union Square than December, right? It's about the only place in the city that feels truly Christmas-y, if you ask us,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Live Basil Gimlet at Plum Over in Oakland an exciting new cocktail option is opening tonight, in time for 11/11/11: Plum Bar (2214 Broadway), from the minds of chef Daniel Patterson and bar star Scott Beattie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimo's to Become Cocktail Lounge. Maybe. Not that we have any right to complain (it's been over five years since we last blacked out at this fine music venue), but Polk Street rock 'n' roll/hustler staple Kimo's (1351
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Piña Colada at Wo Hing General Store What do you know! There is such a thing as a piña colada that isn't thick with Coco Lopez, clocking in at 1000 calories and sickly sweet! Brooke Arthur, who's created drinks and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Goat Town NYC at Two Sisters Bar & Books Opening tonight in Hayes Valley is a new wine bar/cocktail bar/cafe/book exchange called Two Sisters Bar & Books (579 Hayes Street). The sisters in question, partners in the business with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Endless Summer at Plate Shop Yes, we're getting a bit of what we consider summer this weekend. It won't be hot, but it will be nice. Drink it up while you can, kids, and while doing so, drink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Naked in the Rain from Oakland's Sidebar Closing out SF Cocktail Week on Sunday was a party over in Alameda at the St. George distillery, in celebration of the release of their three new gins which we mentioned vis a
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 Booze Alert: S.F. Cocktail Week Starts Next Week San Francisco loves a little tipple here and there (as if you hadn't noticed). And since we've ridden out this fancy cocktail movement until reaching a critical mass of artisan shakers and perfect-ice-cultivators,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Jalapeno Lemonade At Trace Trace just opened over at the W Hotel on Third Street, replacing XYZ and bringing some new design cred to the space -- it was designed by acclaimed residential architect Stanley Saitowitz, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Jalisco Cobbler at Harry Denton's Starlight Room Harry Denton's Starlight Room reopens at the top of the Sir Francis Drake after a brief renovation next Tuesday, and for this week's Friday cocktail we bring you a new creation from newly
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/24: Pete Escovedo, SF Cocktail Week Preview Party, Drink Good Do Good Carnival MUSIC/ART:The Mission Cultural Center for the Arts presents Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo, in which Escovedo will talk about his esteemed musical career and his lifelong interest in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Lima Sour at Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen Last week marked the opening of a new watering hole in the Tenderloin named after Jasper O'Farrell himself, called Jasper's Corner Tap and Kitchen (the former Ponzu at Taylor and O'Farrell). Among the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist's Favorite $10 Cocktail Spots As you know, we here at SFist enjoy a stiff drink, and quite often we enjoy the kind of stiff drink that involves some heavy muddling and straining, esoteric tinctures, and housemade bitters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mayhem at Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem You may have heard about this vaguely (but not explicitly) Muppet-themed bar that just opened in Mission, in the old Baobab space at 19th. It's called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. They
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Thai Basil Lemon Martini at E&O Trading Company Some of the best drinks are the simplest, and while the artisanal cocktail thing has tended to leave vodka drinking to the amateurs, the fact remains that it's an easy way to to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Violet Femme at Bluestem Brasserie Just open this week at 1 Yerba Buena Lane (that alleyway next to the Four Season between 3rd and 4th, on Market) is Bluestem Brasserie. It's a big, airy space with a great
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Pimm's #3 at Range Since it's now, surprisingly, already Memorial Day weekend, you might as well celebrate the passage of time and the dawn of summer with this twist on a traditional English country summer refresher: the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Narguja at Gitane Alex Smith, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane), created this drink to usher in the summer months with a whiff of Europe. It's kind of a twist on a Negroni, with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Summer in the City at Michael Mina Ah summer. What is it, really? Kate Bolton, bartender at Michael Mina, created this bright and refreshing drink to celebrate the season that takes a long time to arrive in our fair city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Punch at Zero Zero It's kinda summer, everybody! And even though it's not as hot as it was on Wednesday, we're still in a springy/summery mood. Thus our choice of cocktail this week is a seasonal
