what’s so wrong with the cosmo? the violet hour shuns them. so does bourbon and branch. the other day at pizzaiolo, some guy ordered a grey goose cosmo and cate said ‘we don’t have grey goose and we don’t do cosmos’ in a kind of mean and scary way! i pooped [...]
1 oz punt e mes
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 tsp grenadine
4 drops orange bitters
[note: after sampling this a few times, i think 1/2 tsp is too much grenadine. will try 1/4 next time]
combine ingredients, stir or shake without ice, then stir with ice for 60 seconds.
this drink is delicious. as noted in the [...]
went into sf last night to go to porkapalooza. i seized the opportunity to bookend the pork party with drinks at heaven’s dog since i’ve heard so much about their cocktails and bartenders.
pre-pork cocktail (heaven’s dog): pisco apricot tropical (pisco, pineapple gomme, apricot brandy, lime, angostura bitters). clean, refreshing. beautiful aroma. i [...]
i suggested to jp that since she was nice enough to ‘let’ me go out the other night, she should get her night out also. she opted for luka’s because their fries are her fave. (2nd place: a cote) one thing pretty rad about lukas is, at least tonight, they had five, [...]
went to adesso with stuntman b. verdict, awesome. tasted/drank three cocktails:
- billionaire cocktail (whiskey, grenadine, absinthe bitters, lemon)
- fragola coppa (pimm no. 1, creole shrub, cucumber, strawberry, mint, limonata)
- pisco sour
all delicious. yes, they came up with a strawberry cocktail that bore only the faintest resemblance to a tgif-style daiquiri. and [...]
