Here is a list of 31 drink books coming out near the end of 2023! This isn't every cocktail book coming out (and there are plenty of beer and wine ones I didn't include) but a selection of them. Happy reading or gifting or just putting them on your coffee... 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 →
In my latest feature for Bevvy.co I wrote about the many manifestations of oil washing spirits. It's just like fat washing but starts with sesame, coconut, olive, and other oils instead. Read it here. Read more →
I hadn’t noticed just how many different ways bartenders were incorporating the same basic shape until I saw them all together on the menu at the bistro Causwells in San Francisco. “This whole menu I just gravitated to circles,” says Elmer Mejicanos, beverage director and managing partner. “I should have... Read more →
This is a list of the new drink books coming out between April through June of 2023 that I know about. You can view all of these books together at this link at Bookshop or this one on Amazon. The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail... 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 →
I wrote a flavor trend story for Eater San Francisco. I really enjoy cocktails with sesame in them and recently I realized that there were tons of them all over the place. I stopped trying to find new ones after locating 14 different bars serving sesame in drinks, though I'm... Read more →