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Cocktails

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Boozy Weekend: Big Hats, Tequila, and Fast Horses

    What happens when Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby fall on the same weekend? A lot of trouble wearing big hats, awash in tequila and bourbon. Here's our handy guide to help you stay well refreshed all weekend. Cuatro De Mayo Fiesta Con Queso Where: Doc's Clock, 2575 Mission (at 21st St.), 824-3 ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 28, 2011

    Fresh Eats: Drink of the Week: Prizefighter's Oaxacan Standoff

    What happens when Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby fall on the same weekend? A lot of trouble wearing big hats, awash in tequila and bourbon. Here's our handy guide to help you stay well refreshed all weekend. Cuatro De Mayo Fiesta Con Queso Where: Doc's Clock, 2575 Mission (at 21st St.), 824-3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Prizefighter Bar Opens Wednesday and Comes Out Swinging

    There's a new cocktail heavyweight on the Emeryville card with Prizefighter Bar, opening tomorrow in the old Kitty's location. The team behind the new watering hole are veterans of the San Francisco bar scene: Jon Santer (Bourbon & Branch, Beretta, Range), Dylan O'Brien (Bloodhound, Churchill), and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Hardly Strictly Whiskey: Mandolin Expert Chris Thile on How to Make a Drink for Yo-Yo Ma

    Chris Thile, mandolinist and mixologist​ Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile needs a drink. Since January, he has toured all over the country with his band, the Punch Brothers, recorded an album with guitarist Michael Daves (touring solo when Daves returned home for personal reasons), and collaborat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Red Vespa, a Sweet/Tart Cocktail at Perbacco

    Missy Buchanan​While she'll gladly make the million martinis and vodka drinks that customers constantly order, Perbacco bartender Carla Gassner is reveling in stone fruits and other ingredients with sweet and tart qualities for her additions to the current seasonal cocktail menu at this laude ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Newly Renovated Dosa on Valencia Will Offer Spicy New Cocktails

    Lou BustamanteDosa bar manager Lenny Gumm.When Dosa on Valencia reopens on Friday, July , the new 12-seat bar will sport more than a new design: it'll have a full bar, a new cocktail menu, and its own gin. "The cocktail list will have a few drinks from our current menu at Fillmore and a number of n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Thirsty Thursday: Cocktail Classes Round-Up

    Lou BustamanteLearning to shake your own cocktails​In an unusual moment for the Bay Area, our weather and the calendar's declaration of summer actually agree. Dust off your shaker and your bartending skills with a couple of classes this week that'll make your pool/park/apartment party as potent as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    This Week: Get Schooled in the Art of the Cocktail

    Lou BustamanteCocktail mise en place from a rum primer at Beretta.​Making cocktails at home might be easy enough, but making them well is a whole different story. Trust us, after a long week of work, there's nothing better than staying home in your PJ's, drinking delicious cocktails and strea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Rum 101 at the Ferry Building

    Lou BustamanteMai Tai at Spoonbar.​Rum, Rum History, and Rum Cocktails Where: Ferry Building, North Arcade When: Sat., Mar. 26, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: In the U.S., rum has been like soccer and the metric system ― something the rest of the world did. All that is changing, thanks ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 9, 2011

    Drink 2011: Cocktails, Let's Go Bowling

    Lou BustamanteMai Tai at Spoonbar.​Rum, Rum History, and Rum Cocktails Where: Ferry Building, North Arcade When: Sat., Mar. 26, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: In the U.S., rum has been like soccer and the metric system ― something the rest of the world did. All that is changing, thanks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Dining

    December 8, 2010

    Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Jack Daniel's Files Suit -- Aims to Jack Up Competition

    Time for a Lynchburg lawsuit...​The makers of America's most ubiquitous bourbon, Jack Daniel's, have poured out a legal shot at a competitor. Their argument in San Francisco District Court: When it comes to marketing liquor, you don't know Jack. While even teetotalers know Jack Daniel's distillery ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    McCormick & Kuleto's Wants You to Soak Up the Booze

    Robin C./Yelp​The place: McCormick & Kuleto's, 900 Northpoint St. (at Larkin, in Ghirardelli Square), 929-1730, www.mccormickandkuletos.com. The hours: 3-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. The deals: Hefty snacks for $2-$5 apiece;  $6.50-$7 cocktails. The digs: The view's stupendous from the cocktail lou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Spoonbar's Scott Beattie Talks Cocktails at Plum, Bracina

    Jeremy Brooks/FlickrScott Beattie (right) with the author.​After stopping by Spoonbar in Healdsburg earlier this month, we sat down to chat with Scott Beattie for a taste of what to expect behind the bar at Plum, the perennially delayed Bracina, and other projects from Northern California's tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    At Spoonbar in Healdsburg, Scott Beattie Riffs on Classic Warm-Weather Cocktails

    Lou BustamanteAt Spoonbar, ex-Cyrus barman Scott Beattie has a simpler, more refined focus on classic cocktails.​On a recent fog-soaked day in the city, the promise of sunshine lured us north to the warmth of Healdsburg, Yountville's counterpart as a showcase of Sonoma County's best food and d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Tales of the Cocktail Blows Into New Orleans Today. Rickhouse Represent!

    Tales of the Cocktail/2009Over the next four days, bartenders, cocktail writers, media, and the public will collectively pickle their livers.​One of the world's biggest gatherings celebrating the history and culture of drinking hits New Orleans today. Tales of the Cocktail 2010 consists of 125 ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 2010

    The Happiest Hours

    We do the legwork to find you 30 of the most satisfying places to sip and snack.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Bar Basic, Orson: On the Hunt for Bargain Drinks in SOMA

    J. BirdsallBar Basic's happy is nothing if not basic.​Maybe Bar Basic's happy hour wasn't quite as happy as we were expecting last night. Certainly there was no trace of Back to Basic Thursday, a night that was supposed to have been devoted to affordable versions of the cocktails bartenders mi ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    Bottomless mimosas and lobotomized jocks

    J. BirdsallBar Basic's happy is nothing if not basic.​Maybe Bar Basic's happy hour wasn't quite as happy as we were expecting last night. Certainly there was no trace of Back to Basic Thursday, a night that was supposed to have been devoted to affordable versions of the cocktails bartenders mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    The Champagne Cocktail: Sparkly and Bittersweet Like a TCM Tearjerker

    Sarah Ackerman/FlickrChampagne cocktail at Sutro's at the Cliff House.​The 1939 version of Love Affair (a TCM mainstay) is one of the more sophisticated romantic dramedies from Hollywood's Golden Age, so it's only fitting that Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne should meet and spark over the subjec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Meet Delilah, the Martini's Citrusy Sister

    j | Wiltshire/FlickrHendricks gin gives a Delilah a hint of botanical snark.​While we love our martinis (especially when they're concocted of Hendricks gin and half a capful of vermouth over a pound or so of cracked ice, anchovy-stuffed olives on the side), they skirt the limits of predictabil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Straight-Up Classic or Rainbow Slushy, the Margarita is Timeless

    Tequila Photos/Flickr Reposado tequilas on the bar at Tommy's.Remember when the family would head out to that Mexican joint on the highway with the racetrack-shaped cocktail lounge and the three-foot bartender and the Miwok skeletons under the floorboards? And your father would give you a tas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Umbrella Weather: Mai Tais Conjure Up the Balmy Summer You Won't Be Having

    eenwall/FlickrMai tais at the Tonga Room: Evanescent as summer itself?Summer arrives this weekend, and with it a crying need for all those tropical cocktails that deceive San Franciscans into believing that balmy evenings are on the horizon. The mai tai, a signature example of the genre, has a speci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Happy Hour & Duck Fries at Orson

    Selected well drinks $5, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Happy Hour Freebies: Eddie Rickenbacker's

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Fall Cocktail: Hot Apple Pie

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Martinis at the Pied Piper Bar

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Cocktails for the Convention

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    Boozing in North Beach

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Piano Bar

    "Stairway to Heaven" now playing at the piano bar.

  • Dining

    November 24, 2004

    Irony Overload

    Attempted cleverness overwhelms the cocktails and food at Lime

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Dog Bites

    The labor-intensive Mojito is reaping grim effects on bar efficiency – and patron patience

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Cuban

    Habana

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Mojito

    Habana

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Use of Cactus

    Agave Wine Cocktails at Movida Lounge

  • Dining

    April 28, 2004

    Hawaiian Aye

    If you want aloha, you're better off at Tita's Hale'aina than at Roy's

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Jukebox

    The Ha-Ra

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Cocktails Under $6

    Orbit Room Cafe

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Bastardization of the Martini

    Mango Martini at Gaylord India

  • Dining

    November 14, 2001

    Hangout

    Street

  • Dining

    July 25, 2001

    Shaken, Not Stirred

    g bar

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Martini

    Maxfield's

  • Dining

    February 28, 2001

    In From the Cold

    Sno-drift

  • Dining

    January 17, 2001

    Social Grace

    It's My Party

  • Music

    February 26, 1997

    Night Crawler

    It's My Party

  • Dining

    August 2, 1995

    In a Sweat for Green Chile

    While Leticia's pulls in a margarita-swigging crowd, it's Pozole that fills the bill for regional Mexican specialties

  • Dining

    June 28, 1995

    Dish

    While Leticia's pulls in a margarita-swigging crowd, it's Pozole that fills the bill for regional Mexican specialties

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