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For many years I have been compiling The Big Drink, a list of the most iconic cocktails in San Francisco, for 7x7 Magazine. Here is this year's list. Read more →

The global finals for the Nikka Perfect Serve cocktail competition were in San Francisco, so the brand asked me to lead the bartenders on a short tour. It was a Sunday and the competition was the next morning, so that was a bit limiting and I decided to make it... Read more →

I wrote a story for the San Francisco Chronicle about cobblers, mostly Sherry Cobblers. Read it here. While hot weather bears down on much of the country, summer in San Francisco is more of a state of mind than a change in the weather. And many bartenders around the city... Read more →

The latest venue from the Future Bars group in San Francisco (Bourbon & Branch, Rickhouse, Pagan Idol, etc.) is The Dawn Club. As the website says, "The original Dawn Club existed in the same Monadnock Building on Market Street in the 1930's and 1940's. The Dawn Club became the epicenter... Read more →

I was interviewed on unique expressions of ice in San Francisco for Eater.com. Read the article here. Read more →

San Francisco went from a city of very few rooftop bars to... a few I guess. I remember when El Techo de Lolinda was new and exciting, then we had Charmaine's, Kaiyo Rooftop, and now Cavaña. There are several new ones in the East Bay also. Well I just had... Read more →

For 7x7, I once again wrote my list of the 50 most iconic cocktails in the city. I've been doing this list since at least 2014! The introduction: At the start of 2022, many bars remained shell-shocked by the pandemic and were largely playing it safe; cocktail menus were limited... Read more →

Pabu in San Francisco has a new menu by the new bar lead Natalie Lichtman, previously at The Passenger at 25 Lusk, Nico, and Elixir. The menu just went live in December and can be found here. I also pasted pics of it below. I went in to try the... Read more →