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week in which several preservationists and a Fairmont Hotel neighbor dissed the Tonga Room as both unprofitable and out of date, we turned to our friend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
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 House of Shields Is Saved! ...Well, almost. Chef Dennis Leary (Canteen, The Sentinel) is in talks to take over the beloved, century-old, downtown watering hole, The House of Shields, and he plans to do little to the space
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: 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
