Recently the Beachbum was invited to co-judge the first annual “Battle For The World’s Best Mai Tai,” held at the Royal Kona Resort on Hawaii’s big island. As a rule, the Bum is not into competition. That’s for Type A personalities, and we are Type Zzzz. Nevertheless, we deliberated for a whole tenth of a [...]
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“If you can’t come to paradise, I’ll bring it to you,” Don The Beachcomber used to tell his customers. Last week, President Obama echoed this sentiment at the first luau ever held on the White House lawn: “I wish I could give you all trips to Hawaii,” he told his 2,500 guests, “but I figured, [...]
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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