Cocktails News

Easter candy is dandy. But Easter candy paired with booze? Now that's something to put a spring in your step.

Gin is in for spring. Bartenders have put away the whiskeys of winter, and it's still too soon for the fruit-forward rum and vodka sippers that cool us down in summer.

On the Menu provides the latest news from the Charleston area's extensive culinary community, including new restaurants, new menu items and upcoming events, as well as details about local chefs.

On tax day, corporate America feels your pain. Providers of everything from French fries to cocktails to hotel rooms to apple-scented urinal screens reading "Abolish The IRS" will be going out of their way Tuesday to try to make you feel better for having to fork over your money to Uncle Sam.

So you've been making cocktails for a little while, and you have all your basics in hand: a shaker, a strainer or two, a jigger or measuring cup, a bar spoon, and some basic glassware.

Cocktails mix radiant power-pop enthusiasm and crisp West Coast textures on "Tough Love," a just-released track from the quintet's upcoming debut album Adult Life , due June 17 via Father/Daughter Records .

Our Occasional Wine Council has been meeting for several years in the Temecula Valley Wine Country.

Somewhere in the Downtown Los Angeles arts district, there's a couple standing outside a warehouse calling a secret phone number.

Three things in D.C. life are certain: death, taxes, and Tax Day food and drink deals.

One might be under the impression that the Easter Bunny and all his candy are for the kiddies.

Known as the industry's underground drink of choice, "the handshake" is a shot of Fernet Branca.

These new offerings provide a deliciously convenient cocktail option with premium ingredients for any spring or summer entertaining occasion.

Now that your family has filed their taxes you can take a deep breath and relax.

Nearly every Friday throughout my college years, a group of friends gathered at El Ranchito restaurant for "Margs and Mexican."

Brannon's NYC Mixologist Michael Manjon's Basil B. Bennett is a refreshing basil and lime gin cocktail that's perfect for spring.

As we look forward to celebrating Easter, we've started planning our favorite meal of bunny Sunday - brunch.

Farm to table has become farm to tired. Thankfully the term de decade has jumped from the table to the bar at Liquid M2.

Crown Heights's main drag, Franklin Avenue, has completely transformed over the past few years, its bodegas and dollar stores closing and reemerging as, variously, yoga studios, burger joints, and coffee shops.

But seafood lovers have a place of refuge Thursday nights when the Central City Tap House in downtown Kalamazoo features a raw bar with fresh oysters, plus shrimp, mussels and a changing menu of fish and seafood specials.

The Veggielante is on a mission to spread the word about places to order good, meatless grub.