SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Five-Spice Margarita at Cantina Though we've certainly not completed our cocktail tour of San Francisco, our Friday drink column is coming full circle after inaugurating itself back in March with Cantina's Laughing Buddha. We return to Cantina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Grape Drink from Blackbird In opening a new bar in the space of the former Expansion (and, briefly, The Metro, 2124 Market Street), owner Shawn Vergara wanted to create an unpretentious neighborhood hangout that nonetheless served good
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Smokin' Stoned Fruit from Reza Esmaili of Conduit The cocktail menu at Conduit, designed by bar manager (and recently elected President of the U.S. Bartending Guild) Reza Esmaili, tends toward seasonally appropriate and well-balanced flavors that pair well with food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Promissory Note from The Alembic If you break down contemporary cocktail culture as aficionados like Camper English are wont to do, you may be inclined to generalize that East Coast style (inspired lately by NYC joints like Milk
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: Range's Vicious Circle The recipe for this week's twist on a classic cocktail comes to us from Brooke Arthur, Bar Manager at Range: I came across a recipe for the Algonquin Cocktail, a classic from the
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
Arts & Entertainment Inauguration Drinks, Anyone? by Tiffany Maleshefski There's no better way to usher in a new era, one filled with hope and change, than to get totally wasted. Why? Because no matter how much time passes, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cocktail Countdown: the Gobbler by Tiffany Maleshefski We’re as big of fans of holiday spirit as the next person. It’s true we get giddy when we pass the lighted Christmas tree on Union Square, turn
misc Tilt, Where Are You? (By Eyleen Tavy) Somebody amend the Constitution, already! Even as one right is affirmed, another is torn from our grasp -- the right to manufacture pre-mixed caffeinated energy drinks. That's right, "Anheuser-Busch said