A recent New York Post article suggested that New Orleans is mixologically mired in the past, obsessing about old warhorses like the Sazerac but ignoring current cocktail trends. Not from where we sit — which, early last month, was on barstools at Iris, Bar Uncommon, and Cafe Adelaide’s Swizzle Stick Bar, three forward-thinking watering holes [...]
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Saint Patrick may have kicked the snakes out of Ireland, but he couldn’t do anything about the bums. Mr. and Mrs. Bum, that is, who recently sojourned to the Connoisseur’s Club at the Merchant Hotel, a swank five-star hostelry in Belfast. The club is the brainchild of Sean Muldoon and Steven Pattison, who co-host a [...]
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If you perused these pages in 2008, you know all too well how we’ve been blathering about our favorite liquor — and the places we’ve gone, to say nothing of the lengths we’ve gone, to drink it. Here are a few more dispatches we never got around to filing last year (hey, they don’t call [...]
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Recently the Beachbum was in New York giving a presentation to Gotham bar owners and tenders, in which he stumped for the return of Tiki drinks to Manhattan (Robert Simonson recounts the event here, in his blog Off The Presses). Turns out we were preaching to the choir: Exotic cocktails are alive and well in [...]
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– gold agricole rum, that is, and it’s flowing freely at the new Luau restaurant in Beverly Hills (bar pictured above). Owner Andrew Hewitt had fond childhood memories of the legendary original Luau (1953-78), which inspired him to resurrect the joint for a new generation. Aimed squarely at the glitterati — as was the previous [...]