SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Strange Love at Lafitte Embarcadero restaurant Lafitte (on Pier 5) celebrates one year in business this month, and chef Russell Jackson remains steadfastly dedicated to his ingredients, his craft, and newly revamped brasserie menu all, as he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Nobody's Dirty Business at The Hideout We love ourselves a good bitter-but-balanced cocktail, and we came across a doozy recently at the Hideout the awesome, cocktail-nerdy bar within a bar in the back of Dalva on 16th. It's called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hard Boiled at Wilson & Wilson Have you heard about Wilson & Wilson? It's the new reservation-only, bar-within-a-bar at Bourbon & Branch where you can have an even more exclusive, more haute cocktail experience than is even available at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Tournament Shandy at Long Bar Up at Long Bar in Pac Heights (2298 Fillmore), new owner Reza Esmaili is preparing for a big change. The bar star took over the place last summer, with ultimate plans to give
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Shipyard Mule at Plate Shop Sausalito's newest restaurant, Plate Shop, is a cute little gem of a place with excellent, modern food, good wines by the glass -- including a nightly, $6, "inoffensive" white and red house special
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks (Video Edition): The Torii Toddy at Burritt Room For this week's cocktail, we're feeling a little chilly, and we're going to let Thrillist pinch-hit on this one since they went to the trouble of making a whole how-to video for making
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Frankmoon Jean at Clock Bar Clock Bar, inside the Westin St. Francis, updated their drink menu for spring in the last week or so, and Alcademics shared the full details. The drink that caught our attention was a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Valentino at Cotogna We're not fans of Valentine's Day menus, or Valentine's-themed cocktails, especially if they involve raspberry purées or some crap like that. But we like that Cotogna barman Jason "Buffalo" LoGrasso already had a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Gin Bay Packer at Seasons This week, we've got a Super Bowl weekend special cocktail concoctions from Seasons, the restaurant-bar at the Four Seasons hotel downtown. Bar manager Oliver Lee explains the drink, which isn't exactly Wisconsin-like, thusly:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Quince Martini When the weather warms (like it was doing before today), we tend to gravitate back toward the clear liquors. And since we've never been fans of plain and simple martinis (and don't even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Bourbon Raspberry Splash at The Brixton Just last Friday, over in the Cow Hollow/Marina environs, a new rock-and-roll themed lounge opened called The Brixton (2140 Union Street). They've got vintage concert photos from the long gone Winterland Ballroom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Barrel-Aged Bonnie & Clyde Cocktail at Blackbird Have you heard of barrel-aged cocktails? No? Well, you're not alone, since there's only one bar in S.F. doing them at the moment, but you're soon to see plenty more if we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Rusty Rake at 15 Romolo We're going to let the Examiner pinch hit on this week's cocktail, because we're still hungover from New Year's and can't think about mixing a drink just yet. But, in theory, this drink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Holiday Gin Fizz at Revival Bar + Kitchen Today's drink is appropriately Christmasy, and comes to us from across the Bay at Revival Bar + Kitchen (2102 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley), which is the new venture by Amy Murray, chef-owner of Venus. Says
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Sailors' Nog from Twenty Five Lusk The holiday season has come barreling down, and let's face it: drinking is the only way you're going to make it through. With that in mind, please enjoy this recipe from Twenty Five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: After this month, cult-favorite Kodachrome slide film, which stopped being manufactured in 2009, will no longer be processed (which brings a fat tear to this photography-loving contributor's eye). RayKo Photo Center celebrates
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Moulin Rouge from Brick & Bottle Don't get up to Corte Madera much? Neither do we. But if you're up there for a spot of holiday shopping and need a place to get a drink, might we recommend the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: Artisan cocktail-enthusiasts should head over to the 2nd Annual Fillmore Cocktail Crawl for some neighborhood-inspired cocktails at several local Fillmore jazz district hotspots. 6:30 to 9 p.m. // Yoshi's San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Chartreuse Swizzle from Clock Bar For this week's cocktail, we turn to a new listicle on Tasting Table SF featuring what they consider the 15 best cocktails in the city, along with recipes for each. The list is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Dark and Stormy Martini from Level III TGIF, everyone. Time to drink. While we might quibble with the use of the word "martini" in the name of this drink, we can't argue with its tastiness. The concoction is by Level
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Little Ava at 25 Lusk The newest, and coolest, restaurant and bar in SoMa is Twenty-Five Lusk, on an alley between 3rd and 4th off of Townsend (parallel to Ritch). Architects Cass Calder Smith designed the space, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Ti Punch from Bar Agricole The newest bar in SoMa, tucked away on 11th Street near DNA Lounge and Slim's, is Bar Agricole from cocktail wizard Thad Vogler (with a food menu by Brandon Jew, formerly of Magnolia)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (at Michael Mina) Michael Mina, the eponymous restaurant from chef Michael Mina that was formerly at the Westin St. Francis (that space has now become Mina's steakhouse concept Bourbon Steak) has relocated to the former Aqua
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Bourbonmela at Perbacco This week, though it's been a warm one, we discovered a delicious new fall cocktail on the menu at Perbacco. It combines several of our favorite flavors -- bourbon, basil, apple -- into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: WhiskyFest Edition Tonight, at the Marriott, a few hundred people will gather to taste 260 different whiskies, and may or may not all live to see tomorrow. JK! But tonight is WhiskyFest, and for the
