Arts & Entertainment Tonight Extra: <em>Mad Men</em> Cocktails by Rachel Brodsky There are plenty of 1950s and 60s meal recipes we'd love to leave locked away in the annals of never again. You've got your massive jello molds, Chex Mix, three-bean
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The San Francisco Cocktail We're taking a mini-break here from featuring a drink from a local bartender to bring you a perhaps little known recipe we dug up for The San Francisco Cocktail. We believe it dates
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 Toast to Don the Beachcomber's Bday In addition to that bunny boil, you may want to consider a little celebration happening at Smuggler's Cove tonight in honor of Don the Beachcomber's birthday. Don's pioneering Tiki chain once had an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Spencer Manhattan from Trademark Grill Trademark Grill, nestled on Belden Place, features a cocktail program that Camper English would likely classify as Neo-Classic. Today's cocktail of the week, created by Franz Meis, was named to honor a long-time
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: The B Line at Range This just in from Brooke Arthur, bar manager at Range where the cocktail selections are some of our favorite in town: While having coffee yesterday and looking over some old cocktail books, I
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: A Classic Hot Toddy When we crave a delicious and showy version of a Hot Toddy during these (by SF standards) Arctic winter months, we think back on a version we had once at Range, where they
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 SFist Drinks: The Ginger Ante Cocktail from DOSA In looking for good autumnal cocktails to feature, we came across this delicious ginger concoction from DOSA on Fillmore, which has been doing great stuff with pairing cocktails to their food. The Ginger
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAIL PARTY: Wow, we're intrigued. Bold Italic presents 1939. Tog to the Bricks!, a decadent cocktail party from the 1930s, celebrating the opening of the World's Fair. The organizers promise "a raucous good
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Fogcutter from Smuggler's Cove We made mention earlier this week of the imminent opening of brand new Hayes Valley Tiki bar, Smuggler's Cove. Assuming you absolutely can not wait to try some of the rummy, tropical deliciousness
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: Seven Decades of Cocktails from <em>Gourmet</em> We're still pretty broken up about this week's demise of ultimate food-porn mag Gourmet, and while some like Cook's Illustrated's Chris Kimball might be quick to blame the internet, Gawker is quick to
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
