I was invited in to the new Bar at Osito, the room to the left of the live fire restaurant Osito in San Francisco's Potrero Flats neighborhood. The bar is just a small room with concrete walls and a few two-top tables. There is also a plant. A small menu... Read more →
Just yesterday I was in the elevator in my office building and the person next to me was trying to peep the book I had in my hand. (This is okay when there is a library in your building, we are all book peepers here.) The book is this giant... Read more →
San Francisco has two main sherry bars (at least that I know about, now that Bellota is closed), and though one is in the Lower Polk and the other is in Potrero Flats, you can take one bus between El Lopo and El Chato. Actually it's a choice of bus:... Read more →
This story that I wrote first appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. A New Era for San Francisco’s Iconic Starlite In early 2024, Starlite, the top-floor lounge in the Beacon Grand Hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square, reopened after a renovation. In its heyday, the venue was the hottest club in town, but... Read more →
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 →