Cocktails

Well, we had  a bottle of Pama, the pomegranate liqueur. And I wanted to make a cocktail with it. So at my yearly Yule party (not a Christmas party; I have a giant white carved wooden sign that says "Yuletide" so it has to be a Yule party, plus I am a neo-pagan, so I celebrate the winter solstice and rebirth of the sun, not Baby Jesus' birthday) we created some yummy drinks honoring the evergreens that evoke the season.   The pomegranate is a...  

Posted by Naomi Gabay If you’re like me, you have a few interesting bottles floating around in the back of your pantry. Mine happens to have some pomegranate syrup. I used it for one recipe and don’t want it to...  

Event planners should be familiar with a variety of cocktail drinks and cocktail drink recipes so that they may incorporate popular and trendy cocktails for their events. These cocktails and their recipes are certain to be a hit.  

The best thing about a gin martini is how bracing it is—invitingly ice-cold and silken, the juniper wallop of the gin smoothed out by a glug of vermouth. Plus—if we're being honest—it's guaranteed to get you tipsy. But the current fascination with classic cocktails has, for the ...  

Posted by Naomi Gabay We get so many questions for Allen Katz about using bitters in cocktail recipes. This week we focus on Peychaud’s Bitters, created in the early 1800s in a Creole apothecary. Now you can find it in...  

We live in a world in which convenience is the key to marketing most things. Even cocktails in a can.The latest thing in the RTD (ready to drink) niche comes from El Jimador which is sending its New Mix canned tequila cocktails to the U.S. market.El Jimador, made by Casa Herradura and owned by Brown-Forman of Louisville, KY, is the top-selling tequila RTD in Mexico. This month it is being made available in California, with a nationwide rollout...  

Chad Merriweather and Robin Casper from Diageo in Malvern, PA prepare four different Holiday Party Cocktails with NUVO Sparkling Liqueur, Cîroc Vodka, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum.Add this to your queueAdded: Mon Nov 23 02:11:05 UTC 2009Air date: Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 05:41  

Eater points out an interesting generalization made about Mission bars in a Chronicle article about North Beach’s Tosca: The implication is that time has passed Tosca by and so have the young drinkers who give bars energy. They’ve migrated to the Mission District, where a bartender must have a pedigree in “mixology” and a modeling portfolio, [...]  

It could be the comfort cocktail to end all comfort cocktails. This weekend, Owl Meat sent me a link to the recipe for the Bloody Bacon & Cheese. It's made with grilled cheese, bacon, tomato soup, garlic salt, ground pepper and sun dried tomato-infused vodka. I knew vodka comes in a trillion different flavors these days, but sun dried tomato-infused? Really?Here's a video where two mixologists guide you through the recipe. I love how the...  

Remember how the Hunt Club and Canlis are offering Twilight-themed cocktails right now? Me too! I can't stop remembering it. In fact, I was so excited about the idea, I decided to invent a few movie-themed cocktails of my own. Read all about it in this week's Concessions. Don't steal my ideas, Canlis! Ha ha ha! No, seriously, I will cut your face. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL BLUE (CURACAO) ORLEANS 2 oz. Blue Curacao 2 oz. champagne 1 lime...  

The better part of Wednesday's Dining section in the New York Times was given to their coverage of so-called winter drinks. But instead of toddies and warmers they talked instead about rum, though not the hot and buttered kind that would seem appropriate for this time of year. Rather it was aged rum in a tasting column by E Asimov and an article on the revival of rum-based tiki cocktails puncturing the mustachioed seriousness of the hardcore...  

Kate Beckinsale and Zooey Deschanel were tapped to be the faces of Absolut vodka's latest ad campaign. Both actresses look amazing in their shoots, which play with different costumes and guises that match up with a few of the brand's signature cocktails. It's hard to pick which of the playful poses is more fun, but tell us what you think - are you more into Kate or Zooey's ads for Absolut? View 4 Photos › Whose Absolut Ads Are You...  

Cha Cha's Tacos & Tequila has opened its doors in the heart of downtown Brea. The California-Latin-inspired eatery spotlights locally grown produce, dishes roasted in a hardwood-fired oven, meats slow cooked on a rotisserie and cocktails made with fresh squeezed juices and seasonal fruit. The result is a cuisine in which quality, integrity and flavor are always emphasized. "Our hope is to convey our appreciation for all types of Latin cuisine...  

A couple of weeks ago, I made sparkling pomegranate cocktails; since then, I've been looking for ways to use the elderflower liqueur known as St. Germain. I came across this fresh sounding recipe that combines the floral spirit with simple syrup, lemon juice, and gin. I know many of you aren't fans of gin, but since tomorrow is repeal day and everyone (gin and vodka drinkers) should be celebrating, I took the liberty of performing an...  

I can't tell you how to make the perfect martini. No one can. For the martini is the Rorschach test of cocktails. It is a window into the imbiber's psyche. Shaken or stirred? Olive or twist? These are merely signposts to the workings of the drinker's mind....