This post is all about New Orleans craft cocktails. Put your guide books down, because I’m about to lay out a map for you of six craft cocktail bars that we visited on a completely unintentional bar crawl. We had planned to go to Compere Lapin for a nice evening …
Welcome to Negroni Week 2017, y’all! A full week devoted to my favorite drink and charitable giving – what could be better? I’m a regular girl who likes to enjoy a tipple, but if you tell me I’m supporting good causes while I drink? Well, I’ll feel downright obligated to go …
Several months ago, I was in a popular cocktail bar and, as one often does (it’s not just me, right!?), ordered a drink of which I didn’t know/understand half the ingredients. One of the listed items was a shrub. I paused a bit at that, wondering if I was going to …
You know that saying “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover”? The Velvet Tango Room in Cleveland, Ohio, was a double whammy for me. I’ve been visiting Cleveland – well technically the suburbs of Cleveland – for 20+ years, visiting family. For years, the visits were focused around weddings, …
This past Friday and Saturday, I had the privilege to attend Tales of the Cocktail 2016. This internationally-known, hugely popular cocktail festival dates back to 2002, and attracts premiere industry veterans from all over the world. I was supposed to be working in Istanbul, Turkey- a place near and dear …