Cocktails News

For some people, a couple of caipirinhas, the powerful Brazilian cocktail, are just what is needed to take the edge off the stress of a hard day's work.

If nostalgia is what you're searching for in a bar, Magnum Cigar Bar pretty much feels like a step back in time.

Next week many of your favorite bartenders will be traveling to New Orleans for a grand annual cocktail convention called Tales of the Cocktail .

Mangia Italiano makes many people think of either pasta or the debauchery of staying out until 3 a.m. listening to live music.

The number of distilleries in Utah has doubled in less than a year, resulting in a greater variety of spirits.

This place is so weird, it's hard to know where to begin. It's on a strange, huge deck area jutting off the back of the Motif hotel .

Manila bars are pouring new drinks that celebrate local flavors and history. The Fierce Pinay is a tribute to today's modern Filipina -- "fierce and sweet," say its makers at The Bottle Shop in Makati.

At Sunday's Pajama Brunch, the Bonneville will serve up a cocktail that's already becoming a signature of its bar program.

Because he takes his 5 A 7 seriously, even when he's off duty, the Montreal bartender always has a few basic ingredients on hand: vodka, gin, bourbon, sparkling water, fresh ice, lemons and limes for squeezing.

I don't know about you, but I don't take lemons for granted. Whether it's a wonderful lemon infused olive oil or the perfect piece of lemon meringue pie , there's something about lemons that makes a dish or drink even better.

What place does ramen have in a Charlie Chaplin-themed bar? Micah Wilder, one half of the Wilder Cocktail Brothers who own the Chaplin, the new Shaw cocktail bar moving into the space once inhabited by Burmese restaurant Mandalay, explains it thus: "Because it was silent film, you could go any direction.

Newlywed Fearne Cotton was dared to drink a cocktail out of a glass shoe the day after her wedding to rocker Ronnie Wood's son Jesse Wood It was a case of hair of the dog for Fearne Cotton after her glamorous wedding to Jesse Wood, when a friend dared her to drink a cocktail from a shoe.

Zagat has released its list of the "10 Hottest New Bars" in Atlanta. The list includes new places and established ones, such as Holeman & Fitch, doing new things, the food guide says.

Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara attend the Bloomberg & Vanity Fair cocktail reception following the 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner at Villa Firenze on May 3. The pair were reportedly introduced at the dinner.

Ah, summer: the season of long, cool drinks; often fruity, sometimes intoxicating, and always refreshing.

Built at the Fincantieri shipyard near Trieste, Italy, the 142,714-ton Regal Princess is tied with sister ship Royal Princess as the largest Princess vessel ever.

Water flavor drops are everywhere these days, but while some of these flavor enhancers can turn a glass of water into something tasty, others are simply terrible.

Ingredients: * 1 A3 4 parts Svedka's Stars & Stripes vodka * A3 4 part lemonade * A1 2 part triple sec * 1 part cranberry juice * Juice of 6 whole limes * 12 cups ice * Optional for garnish: Whole blueberries & quartered strawberries Directions: Combine all ingredients in a receptacle large enough for all liquids and plenty of ice.

The June 20 introduction of minimum pricing makes B.C. beer prices per ounce the highest in Canada.

Lorraine Eaton is The Virginian-Pilot's award-winning Staff Epicure, who roams Tidewater writing about the foodways and cocktail scene.