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 Wednesday Wine Tasting: Astrale e Terra Winery In our search for small-scale wine producers to visit in our nearby wine regions, we're always glad to find start-up wineries making excellent wines to a small, devoted audience. Astrale e Terra on
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 Wednesday Wine Tasting: Wine Apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch Nobody we know really strives to be a wine snob, but a person can always come off sounding like one in mixed (read: non-Bay Area) company when it comes to choosing or discussing
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
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 Improved Sunrise from Rickhouse Rickhouse (246 Kearny), the recently opened Financial District cocktail haven by the guys who brought us Bourbon & Branch, is already drawing crowds in the post-3 p.m. hours after the markets close.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Loxton Cellars Just north of the center of Glen Ellen is an unassuming tasting room and winemaking facility, Loxton Wines. It's a large metal shed, essentially, and the place is owned and operated by Australian
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 Wednesday Wine Tasting: Hess Collection After admitting our preference for the Sonoma side of things, we'll give a little attention today to Napa, where both a winery and a world-class art gallery sit atop Mount Vedeer at the
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: Cline Cellars in Sonoma We're taking a break from the regular cocktail column today to highlight one of our favorite wineries in the Greater Bay Area, Cline Cellars. Situated at the south end of Hwy 121, just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Blackberry Shrub We thought we'd keep with this shrub thing after last week's Strawberry Gin Shrub recipe, since it's new to us (and probably you) and is actually quite delicious. At this week's CUESA farmers'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tickets on Sale for Summer Farmers' Market Cocktail Event If you were envious back in May when we talked about the farmers' market cocktail event at the Ferry Building during Cocktail Week, and you didn't make it to the SF Chefs. Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Gin Shrub from NOPA Last night marked the kickoff of this SF Chefs. Food. Wine. event in Union Square, a weekend-long orgasm of culinary grazing, seminar-ing and drinking meant to rival the annual Food & Wine Classic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Naughty Sun Dress from Bourbon & Branch Joel Baker, bar manager at the three-year-old speakeasy Bourbon & Branch -- which has already landed twice on Esquire's Best Bars in America list -- and bar consultant behind Future Bars, gives us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Gitane's Castillan Cup This week's recipe is a decidedly summer libation based on the classic Pimm's Cup, and it comes to us from Carlo Splendorini, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane). The original Pimm's Cup
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Tales of the Cocktail Last week in New Orleans, bartenders and cocktail journalists from around the country gathered for a particularly booze sozzled conference known as Tales of the Cocktail. Highlights included the History of Saloons in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Sexy Saint This week's drink comes to us from Sierra Zimei, bartender at The Four Seasons, who created a drink that, appropriately for the venue, goes with all seasons. As Sierra says, "It's a great
