Brooke Arthur

Drink of the Week: Best Warm Weather Cocktails

As if we needed a more dramatic celestial gesture to signal the start of Indian Summer in San Francisco, Wednesday's dramatic sky -- complete with double rainbow, no less -- was almost as grand an entrance as a skydiving queen of England. With a full 52 entries (yes, a full year) into my tenure wit ... More >>

SF Chefs 2012: The Guide to Boozing

SF Chefs, the week-long celebration of the San Francisco food and drink, has taken up residence once again in Union Square. The white tent being draped over an entire city block won't officially open until Friday night, when it will feature dozens of bars and restaurants representing over the course ... More >>

Smuggler's Cove and Wo Hing Tiki Night

When Don the Beachcomber, credited for inventing standards like the Zombie and Navy Grog, opened his tiki bar in Hollywood in 1934, he unleashed a mania for Polynesian drinks, food, and culture. It didn't take long for other enterprising folks across the country to get in on the "exotic" drink actio ... More >>

SF Female Bartenders Breaking the Speed Rack Barrier

The cocktail boom has introduced more changes behind the bar than fresh juices and homemade bitters; female bartenders, too, are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Showcasing the increasing number of women in the craft cocktail movement is LUPEC (Ladies United for Preservation of Endangere ... More >>

Wo Hing General Store: Charles Phan Tries Cantonese Food

La Paloma at Mosto is Must-o

​Even though the heart of the bar program at Mosto is the agave spirits by the glass, where a list of over 300 bottles dwarfs the six cocktails, their version of the classic La Paloma ($9, El Jimador Blanco Tequila, St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur, grapefruit juice, Jarritos Toronja soda) is excep ... More >>

Bartender Brooke Arthur's Holiday Cocktail Recipe

Lou Bustamante​Part 3 of an interview with BrookeArthur, bar manager at Wo Hing. Part one of the interview is here. Read part two here. Brooke Arthur's Napoleon's Vice, named simply after the image of the French general on the bottle of sherry, is new holiday cocktail on the list at Wo Hing ... More >>

Brooke Arthur, Wo Hing's Cocktail Creator, on the Mission's Cocktail Culture

Lou Bustamante​Few in the bar industry have been on such a consistent and stellar climb as Brooke Arthur. With a rare combination of remarkable talent, humility, and good nature, it's no surprise Arthur has been tapped to lead such high profile bar programs such as Range, Prospect, and now Charles ... More >>

Wo Hing Cocktail Creator Brooke Arthur on Balancing the New and the Familiar

Lou Bustamante​Few in the bar industry have been on such a consistent and stellar climb as Brooke Arthur. With a rare combination of remarkable talent, humility, and good nature, it's no surprise Arthur has been tapped to lead such high profile bar programs such as Range, Prospect, and now Charles ... More >>

Wo Hing General Store Readies to Open, and the latest Tacolicious and Mosto On the Way

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Charles Phan's Wo Hing General Store will officially open tomorrow. Eater SF gives a sneak peek inside the Chinese street food-inspired restaurant during a test-run dinner. The Mission restaurant's sleek ... More >>

Liqueur de Violettes: Flower-Based Liqueur Revives a French Classic

​Petaluma-based Tempus Fugit, maker of Gran Classico bitters and absinthes, has just released a 19th-century-style spirit, Liqueur de Violettes. The color's a natural blue-pink (from the violets it's made from, hand-harvested in the sunny Côte d'Azur). It was traditionally used with Champagne ... More >>

Where to Toast Love (or Loneliness) This Weekend

Lou BustamanteProspect's Forbidden Fruit, a lush Valentine's special.​The old saying "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" might not always be true, but our experience shows that cupid is most effective when firing shots of booze, not arrows. With that in mind, here's SFoodie's guide for fin ... More >>

The Year in Food: Cocktails Get More Respect

Melissa Barnes/SF WeeklyBar Agricole was among a handful of ambitious bar/restaurants to open in 2010.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. To call 2010 a revolutionary year in cocktails would be an overstatement. But it was certainly a year in which ... More >>

SF Cocktail Week, Day 1: The Boothby Revealed, Plus West Coast Super Women

Lou BustamanteYesterday's drink: Pisco punch at Comstock Saloon, a nod to National Punch Day.​SF Cocktail Week officially kicks off tonight with two events: the opening of the Boothby Center, new home of the Barbary Coast Conservancy of the American Cocktail. With its beverage lab and conferen ... More >>

Prospect updates Boulevard's aesthetic, but edgy it isn't

At Thermidor, fine dining dishes from another era work best when updated

The Whaler, a New Discovery at Prospect

Tamara Palmer​At freshly opened Prospect, it's a good bet the bar will prove to be just as popular as the restaurant. In his rundown of Brooke Arthur's cocktail program, Alcademics' boozologist Camper English reported that the drink's name is a nod to the 188-year-old whaling ship (Candace) th ... More >>

Thermidor's a Throwback to Mid-20th Century Fancy. With Harvey Wallbangers

Bland exterior, 1960s retro-tastic interior.​Inside Scoop tipped us off to the fact that Thermidor, Neil Jorgensen and Bruce Binn's new Mint Plaza restaurant, opened Saturday night. The restaurant is now open for drinks and dinner seven days a week, and building momentum slowly: On Saturday, they ... More >>

Prospect Cocktail Preview Tuesday at Beretta

CUESA/FlickrBrooke Arthur.​Prospect, the highly anticipated restaurant and bar project from the talented Boulevard group due for The Infinity building at 300 Spear might not be open yet, but tomorrow you'll be able to catch an early buzz from some of its cocktails. Prospect bar manager Brooke ... More >>

S.F. Bar Stars Shine at Manhattan Cocktail Classic, Ft. Mason Gala

CUESA/Flickr15 Romolo's Scott Baird.​A word of warning to drinkers in the Bay Area this weekend: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic, NYC's first-ever multi-day festival celebrating the history, contemporary culture, and artful craft of the cocktail, goes down May 14-18. What's that got to do with ... More >>

Summer Fruit is for More Than Just Salads -- Learn How It Can Get You Seriously Hammered

rrrarchPotential cocktail mixers on display at Ferry Plaza.​The hottest bartenders in town are partnering with the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture(CUESA) and the S.F. chapter of the United States Bartenders Guild tomorrow, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at the Ferry Building to make ... More >>

Glitz, Glamour, and the Girl Fight That Almost Was: Who We Saw at SF Chefs.Food.Wine

M. Ladd Circa's Erik Hopfinger, bearing tasty lamb chops. At the opening reception for SF Chefs.Food.Wine in Union Square last night, several attendees were giggling over reports that horns had trumpeted the appearance of Mayor Gavin Newsom minutes earlier. SFoodie spotted Michael Bauer and ... More >>

Our Picks for the Four Hottest Tickets at This Weekend's SF Chefs.Food.Wine. Fest

​This weekend's first-ever SF Chefs.Food.Wine culinary festival is a chance to get up close and personal with local food and wine talent through tastings, classes, and even a cocktail contest. The cost might make you balk (ticketed events are $40 and up, day passes $150), but keep in mind that ... More >>

Fancy a Rhubarbella? Tonight's Jardiniere Gala Marks the End of Cocktail Week

Kenn Wilson via FlickrSan Francisco's third annual mixology fest wraps up tonightStarting last Monday, the third annual SF Cocktail Week stirred, shook, and muddled its way through the city. It closes tonight with a gala at Jardiniere, 6-9 p.m. Forty-five bucks gets you all-you-can-eat Traci Des Jar ... More >>