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 Modern Negroni at Bottle Cap Brand new North Beach eatery Bottle Cap (1707 Powell Street), with food from a former chef at Sens and a former chef at Blue Plate and drinks from Bourbon & Branch alum Pete
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 Archangelo at Locanda The newest cocktail bar in the Mission is at Delfina's Roman offshoot, Locanda (577 Valencia), where bar manager Michael Sager is mixing up a bunch of fun drinks, often under the auspices of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hell's Angel at Rebel Have you been to Rebel yet? It's fun. It's the new motorcycle-themed bar that took over the Triple Crown space, once upon a time the Octavia Lounge, and with an already pretty active
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Lavanda Niño at Colibri Have you noticed that ever since SFist started doing a Friday cocktail column two years ago, SFoodie and The Examiner have both followed suit? Just sayin. Anyhow, we're grateful for it today because
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: White Diamonds at Rye Returning to San Francisco after a 14 year absence, Rye's Rhachel Shaw spent time in Los Angeles working at Barkeeper in Silverlake, Malo Cantina on Sunset Boulevard, and Caña Rum in Downtown L.
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
