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Best Of 2014: The Best Things We Drank This Year
From sipping on moonshine to hanging out with ghosts to hearing bartenders' most freaky and sordid tales, we really had fun getting drunk with you this year.
I'll Make a Cocktail For Neutral Milk Hotel but Not Nirvana
Because music is such an important part of my life, I'll name a lot of my cocktails after songs or bands, and I treat music at Spuntino very seriously. But I've got a strict "no Nirvana" policy, with all apologies to Kurt.
What It’s Like As a Bartender to Watch Your Awkward Tinder Date
I see you bringing four different dates in over the course of a week. I see you telling the same stories over and over. And unfortunately, I see you trying to get a blowjob in the corner.
New Orleans Bartenders Are Genteel Amid Chaos
The best bartenders in the world live here in New Orleans, but I’m completely biased. We know how to drink off the job, act genteel, and handle things when they get crazy—like the time I had to pull a dancing 50-year-old Zumba instructor off of a bar...
How-To: Make a Straight Law Cocktail
Watch as Boston bartender Will Thompson shows our host Lee Tiernan how to make this classic two-ingredient drink (comprised of gin and sherry) that's as simple to make as it is easy to sip.
Chef Andy Ricker Has Always Been Destined for Greatness
The first line of my first review of Andy Ricker's Portland restaurant, Pok Pok in 2006: "You think you know Thai food, but you don't." It was true then, and it's true now. But I already knew people would surely flock to his doors like a methadone...
How-To: Make The Last Word Cocktail
Chef Lee Tiernan travels to Seattle to meet up with bartender Murray Stenson and learn how to make one of his favorite cocktails, The Last Word—a simple mixture of green chartreuse, gin, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice.
The Enigma of Pulque
I've written quite a bit about pulque in passing. But in all the years that I've known about the ancient Mexican "drink of the gods," I've never been as stumped by it (as a subject) as the time not too long ago when a reader asked me to describe its...
This Ivy League Degree Bartender Is Probably Smarter Than You
Young people are increasingly resorting to work in the service industry to make ends meet after college. That's how this bartender found his unexpected calling, even though most of his customers thinks he's a completely incompetent idiot.
Robot Bartenders In Germany Will Make You The Perfect Margarita
Do they have the sage-like wisdom of human bartenders, though?