SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Mean Streets at Foreign Cinema This week's cocktail, which is meant for warm weather (we know, today doesn't quite count) is named after Martin Scorsese's seminal film, Mean Streets. It was created by Foreign Cinema's bar manager Bryan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hurricane at Hog & Rocks Just as the East Coast and Mexico get buffeted by storms this week, we bring you one of the classic drinks on the menu at predictably popular new Mission hang, Hog & Rocks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Acadian at Beretta For today's drink of the week and yes, after last night, we need a stiff drink to settle our nerves and reset our mortality meters we turn to the now established Mission cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Green Wire at Locanda da Eva Local food writer and avid CHOWhound Robert Lauriston recently opened his own restaurant in Berkeley, Locanda da Eva (2826 Telegraph Avenue), featuring Italian cuisine from chef Huw Thornton (formerly a sous chef at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mai Tai at Thermidor Mad Men is probably going to win another Emmy this weekend for best drama, and the show has done its part to inspire newfound nostalgia for 60s fashion, furniture, and cocktails. Thermidor (8
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Italian Boilermaker at Gold Dust Lounge Because it amuses us, we're going to let the Examiner's Mixologist column pinch-hit on this week's cocktail, entirely because they traveled into the Gold Dust Lounge, which despite Prohibition (see Footnote) has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The High Smolder at Zero Zero Zero Zero just opened in the former Azie space (826 Folsom), and because it's a pizza restaurant it's already packed every night of the week. The chef is Bruce Hill (Bix, Picco), and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Aperol Cocktail at Zuni Sometimes, the best drinks are the simplest, especially if you're looking to make it yourself. We're big fans of both Hangar One vodka (the infused stuff is quite fine on its own), and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Charlotte's Web at Eve Lounge Eve Lounge (575 Howard Street) down in SoMa has some surprisingly good drinks for a downtown after-work spot that has DJ nights and such. Bar consultants the Bon Vivants (Josh Harris and Scott
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Root of All Evil at Blackbird Ever since opening last summer, Blackbird (2124 Market Street) has been a welcome and busy addition to the Castro / Church Street environs, and one of the only truly mixed scenes in the neighborhood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hop Toad Cocktail at Comstock Saloon Comstock Salooon, the new throwback-to-1907 bar in North Beach from former Absinthe bar guys Jeff Hollinger and Jonny Raglin, is a great place to get a stiff drink. If you're feeling adventurous, ask
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Central City at Prospect You might have heard that Nancy Oakes and her team at Boulevard decided to open a new restaurant this week called Prospect. It has gotten, we think needless to say, a lot of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Black Rose from The Burritt Room Kevin Diedrich, a bartending vet who previously worked at Bourbon & Branch and Clock Bar, recently opened an awesome little bar in what was once the lobby of the Crescent Hotel. The entrance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Bayou Belle Punch from Cent'Anni Cocktails Victoria D'Amato-Moran is an artisanal cocktail-maker for hire who can often be found at Bay Area and national cocktail competitions, and her catering service, Cent'Anni Cocktails, aims to provide handcrafted, fresh, and innovative
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Sicilian at Credo FiDi workers may already be familiar with Credo (360 Pine), the Italian restaurant opened in January by local political heavyweight Clint Riley who once assisted a certain lady named Nancy in her first
misc SFist Drinks: The Caribeño at Smuggler's Cove In light of the Chron piece this week in which several preservationists and a Fairmont Hotel neighbor dissed the Tonga Room as both unprofitable and out of date, we turned to our friend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Plaza Cocktail from Wexler's This week's drink is a special creation from Wexler's bar manager Kate Bolton, to be featured at CUESA's "Swing into Spring" event next Wednesday. The event is focusing on gin-based, seasonal, farmers' market
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The White Manhattan at Nopa If you're like us, you reserve your Manhattan drinking for colder nights which in SF would mean either mid-winter or mid-summer. Something about the woody, caramel-ness of bourbon makes it either a cold-weather
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Three Mint Juleps from Rickhouse It's Kentucky Derby weekend, and in honor of that and because we love bourbon we feel compelled to feature these three mint julep recipes (a standard, and two variations) from Rickhouse barman Erick
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Escapology at Burger Bar Sometimes, especially as the weather warms, we crave a no-nonsense sort of cocktail that's maybe a little different from a margarita but not very. Given that the elderflower liqueur St. Germain has come
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Smoke Screen at Lafitte If you haven't already heard, Lafitte just opened this week on Pier 5. It's the first non-underground venture, now two years in the making, from chef Russell Jackson of Sub-Culture Dining fame, and
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 Juan E. Appleseed from Rye You guys all read Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, right? In case the answer's no, he talks in the book about the source of the legend of Johnny Appleseed, who didn't roam
