Since the Beachbum visited Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco last April, he’s had flawlessly executed exotic cocktails in Havana, Hawaii, Miami, Los Angeles, Ibiza, Nashville, and Washington, D.C. But the call of the Cove remains strong. Why? Smuggler’s (pictured above) is the only new craft cocktail bar in the United States that lives, breathes, and [...]
“Do you want to see Skipper Kent’s grave?” asked Doug Miller, Kailua-Kona’s resident urban archeologist. It was a rhetorical question. The Beachbum tore himself away from Doug’s Tiki collection, which includes Brobdingnagian rarities scavenged from the Big Island’s shuttered postwar hotels, and jumped in Doug’s jeep. Five minutes later we pulled into a garden estate [...]
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Sorry Tom. Apparently you can go home again. The Beachbum left Los Angeles in 2006, after a lifetime of inebriated indolence there. Indolence came easy in L.A., but it was often difficult to achieve inebriation — especially if your preferred alcohol delivery system was the cocktail. Four years ago, no bar in town seemed aware [...]
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The Bum has one thing in common with the U.S. Congress: neither of us can get anything done. But the denizens of the Washington, D.C., cocktail circuit appear to have the opposite problem. They’re addicted not to alcohol, but to accomplishment. Exhibit A: Eric Felten, author of the book How’s Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and [...]
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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern,” wrote Samuel Johnson over two centuries ago. A recent trip to Dr. Johnson’s home port suggests that if he were alive today, he’d be wearing an aloha shirt: London now has more good [...]
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