Cocktails News

In the wake of Black Friday madness and family dinner drama, we could all use a strong drink.

With a nod to new school barbeque, Georgia's Southern Soul Barbeque will be joining forces with local favorite, Home Team BBQ, to host a Backyard BBQ that's sure to be a spectacle of smoked meats and good eats.

Move over, eggnog: there's a new holiday cocktail in town. At your next holiday fete, we urge you to get into the yuletide spirit with a candy cane cocktail that calls for only three ingredients.

The season's temptations of rich party foods and decadent sweets can make it a challenge to keep extra pounds at bay, and adding high-calorie holiday cocktails doesn't make it any easier.

Broadway Jazz Club is scheduled to open Friday, offering live music five nights a week and an extensive menu that includes comfort foods and signature cocktails.

My definition of the ideal summer cocktail? Easy to make, refreshing to drink. Come the winter holidays, I make only one change: Easy to make, comforting to drink.

Add all ingredients to a crock pot and stir to combine. Cover with lid, set slow cooker to low and cook for four hours, or set to high and cook for two hours.

If you haven't been to Richard Sandoval 's Latin-Asian themed restaurant in Santa Monica, you're missing out, just like I discovered I had been! Upon arriving on a Sunday afternoon to enjoy their current test kitchen, my friend and I discovered they had just finished wrapping up their Sunday brunch, which is apparently quite popular.

The Upper East Side's first European-style sports lounge, Bar Felice, just opened this fall directly attached to the neighborhood staple, Felice 83 Ristorante and Wine Bar.

One recent evening at Kingfish , head bartender Chris McMillian prepared two Queen's Park Swizzles.

This may, or may not, be the recipe for the Bon Ton Cafe's Rum Ramsey Cocktail. Kept secretly behind the bar, the only recipe Robert could unearth was a supposedly reverse engineered one that has since been circulated.

Juuri , located at Korkeavuorenkatu 27, 00130 in Helsinki , is a little bit off the beaten track.

Add bourbon and hot cider in a 14 ounce glass mug and stir to mix, then float the cream-butter on top.

Lure Fishbar, at the St. Moritz at the Loews Hotel Miami Beach, has just opened after about a year's worth of anticipation.

It probably comes as no surprise to regular Bites readers that I have a fairly deep library of cocktail and spirits books.

Signature cocktails: "Honey Island" with hazelnut and vanilla infused Dewar's Honey scotch whiskey and "Peachy Keen" with Buffalo Trace bourbon, fresh peach and cinnamon.

Buster DeMatto adjusted the Pat O'Brien's sign just 19 days after Katrina struck in 2005.

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be a judge in the American Harvest Bartenders' Challenge at City Roots urban farm in Columbia, S.C. It was great fun for me to be able to sample some creations from Columbia-area bartenders featuring American Harvest vodka.

Author Amy Stewart isn't afraid to dig into horticulture's dark side, with popular books on diabolical bugs and killer plants.

It's an annual challenge: Where to make a pitstop, or where to end the day, after a harried holiday shopping trip around Union Square? There are, in fact, a handful of good and civilized options.