One of the finest aspects of the urban holiday experience is meeting friends for a hot toddy in an elegant and festively decorated saloon: a modern-day variation on those ancient winter festivals our forebears conjured up to distance the damp, cold darkness. My favorite rendezvous is the Big Four, a cozy little bar just off the Huntington Hotel lobby at Taylor and California, where the questing merrymaker can sip a perfectly crafted cocktail by the crackling hearth while the resident piano man n
unique-southamerica-travel-experience.comWho's ready for piranha ribs?​Wild Game Week at Big 4 in the Huntington Hotel (1075 California at Cushing) offers an annual chance to indulge in extreme eating. Highlights from this year's menu by chef Gloria Ciccarone-Nehls include Brazilian piranha "ribs," spicy alligator sausage panini, pancetta-crusted petite filet of llama and buffalo short rib, and a wild paella of crispy frog legs, rabbit-rattlesnake sausage, snails, and wild Nigerian salt prawns