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
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
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
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 Alembic, Cantina, & Toronado Return to <em>Esquire</em>'s Best Bars List Esquire just revised and published their annual list of the Best Bars in America, and the long list of S.F. spots remains intact from last year including Alembic, Cantina, Toronado, Bourbon &
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
