Cocktails of the Year 2012
The DFW cocktail scene has come a long way in the last two years, and as many a bartender knows, I’ve been no stranger to it. Restaurants now launch with bar programs no longer a second thought, the...
View ArticleImbibe drinks our milkshake: National magazine highlights Texas cocktails
Don’t look now, but Texas is having a national cocktail moment: No less than Imbibe magazine, the nation’s premiere publication devoted to all things drinkable, highlights the Lone Star State in its...
View ArticleSomething whiskey this way comes
Like dinner with your whiskey? Then Tate’s in Dallas has a treat for you – a five-course dinner by FT-33’s Josh Black, to be paired with selected whiskies at the Uptown neighborhood bar. The April 17...
View ArticlePours without pretense: Are Dallas’ cocktail bars keeping it real (casual)?
The Windmill’s Charlie Papaceno: Unpretentious before it was cool. Interesting story yesterday from The New York Times, which notes the number of craft cocktail joints popping up around the country...
View ArticleTry these cocktails: The best from the Pisco Trail
Hibiscus’ Peruvian Fix was among the stand-outs of the five-week series. MY FRIENDS, this blog can sometimes be a grueling enterprise. In those moments I find myself re-energized by my sworn duty to...
View ArticleWhy Irish guys are smiling: Nation’s whiskey on the rise
Tullamore DEW’s Mossie Power preaches the Irish whiskey gospel at Uptown’s Barter. A few days before St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Maurice “Mossie” Power bounced around the private dining room at Barter...
View ArticleTexas Tiki Week is almost over. Why are you still sitting there?
Tiki yourself to Barter for this Tradewinds cocktail-for-two before Texas Tiki Week goes away forever, or at least until next year. Texas Tiki Week has been stomping through town, and if you want to...
View ArticleSix places to put on your cocktail radar right now — because duh, everyone...
Absinthe and root beer combine to make Forbidden Beer, one reason Driftwood’s pastis-powered program should be on your list. With Dallas’ craft-cocktail cogniscenti waiting on Pimm’s and needles for...
View ArticleFollow the bouncing bartender: Nine craft-cocktail moves you should know about
Unfortunately for Dallas, Meddlesome Moth’s Loiselle has taken her talents to ‘Frisco. Um, the one in California. Shown here at San Fransciso’s Hops and Hominy, she’s now at Cafe du Nord. We all know...
View ArticleSmoke gets in your drink: Mezcal is having its moment and you should enjoy it
Mexican Sugar’s Benito Juarez: A cocktail worthy of the name. In case you hadn’t noticed, mezcal is having a moment. The once misunderstood Mexican spirit has been seeping into the mainstream at a pace...
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