…hotsy totsy! this place has been around forever, but has recently been taken over and fixed up a bit (while still preserving the old school vibe) by a husband and wife team who know their cocktails.
they have a facebook fan page, james hetfield is a fan!
and they bring in a taco truck [...]
swizzle from cafe rouge. rum, falernum, lime, pineapple, ango. was ok. velvet falernum is pretty lame as it turns out.
tina modotti from pizzaiolo. tequila, grapefruit, lime, aperol. really good. maybe i need to procure some aperol.
hit sidebar oakland for lunch today. foodwise: burger, asparagus with egg, fried fishwich. not bad, worth another try. cocktail, the aviation-locavore. i tasted all lemon and gin, nothing sweet, nothing spicy, nothing fruity. but i’m intrigued by the classic vs modern concept of the cocktail list (designed by jonny raglin). [...]
2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz lime
3/8-3/4 oz falernum (depends on sweetness, my last batch was pretty dilute)
1 coin ginger
3 drops angostura bitters
muddle ginger, combine remaining ingredients, shake with ice, double strain.
minor story from cocktail night, one bartender (male) greeted another (female) with “hey, mama!” despite not being billy dee williams, he totally pulled [...]
1 oz pineapple-vodka bounce
1 oz dark rum
1 oz lime
1 oz falernum
not bad, but it had a taste-illusion (what is that word?) of salt.
i recently had a half dozen or so tangerines whose skin was on the cusp of leather, and i thought it would be a good idea to preserve them by mashing them with sugar and a little vodka. i think it worked. im not dead yet. and it produced a lot of [...]
i’ve been mining the alinea cookbook for drink ideas, here’s my first attempt. dad likes almost all of my concoctions (which i assume because he keeps asking for them) , but this is the only one he’s specifically praised.
ginger-mango alignment
2 oz hendricks gin
OR cucumber-infused gin
OR gin plus one thick cucumber slice
1 oz [...]
