Greetings from currently rainy New Orleans! I’m here till Sunday checking out the 10th annual Tales of the Cocktail, a gathering of bartenders, liquor reps and booze enthusiasts that draws attendees from all over the nation for a week of seminars, tasting rooms, dinners, parties and general alcohol-fueled revelry. (I’m…
Last night amidst a whirlwind of whiskey shots inside the business card-encrusted walls of New Orleans’ Old Absinthe House (the only bar on Bourbon Street I’ve found that’s worthy of visiting so far, and the spot where everyone who’s anyone seems to convene post-Tales dinners and parties), I ran into…
The Standard Pour in Uptown decidedly un-standard. Their menu is full of “cravings:” seemingly haphazardly chosen apps, entrees, sides and desserts with cutesy titles like “conversation starters” and “centers of attention.” There are Asian tastes, Mexican tastes, Italian tastes, French tastes and American tastes. It’s like the Olympics up in…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each day. We’ll do our best to keep you up-to-date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced food and drink specials. As always, we’d…
With Belgium’s Independence Day falling on Saturday, retailers and pubs specializing in good beer are celebrating all week with specials on Belgian beers, starting last night and running through Saturday — though the celebration runs through next week with the Libertine Bar’s Belgian Beer Dinner Tuesday the 24th. Other Belgian-inspired…
Anglophiles rejoice — Uptown will soon be home to another den of fish and chips and football. (And by football, we mean soccer.) Owners Larry Martin and Edgar Carlson, who are also behind the chain Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub, will open the British Beverage Co. in the Quadrangle at 2800…
If you wanna talk cocktails in Fort Worth, you’re likely speaking of one person and one person only: Brad Hensarling. The thirtysomething behind dive bar The Chat Room and creative cocktail den The Usual has almost single-handedly shaped the Cowtown craft drink scene, and today he expands his empire with…
Tonight at 7 o’clock, the Libertine Bar offers a beer dinner featuring beers from Weihenstephaner, a Bavarian brewery — the world’s oldest, in fact. In that time, they’ve clearly mastered the brewing art. Their Korbinian is my personal favorite doppelbock, and the others to be featured ain’t half bad either…
Chef Vijay Sadhu’s cocktail-centric restaurant and bar Pepper Smash (7200 Bishop Road) soft-opened Monday in the same Shops at Legacy spot where his upscale-Indian venture Sutra closed in March after being open for less than a year. The bar program is the brainchild of Keith LaBonte, the mad scientist mixologist…
Every time I go to a Flying Saucer beer festival, or BeerFeast or whatever they want to call them, I ask myself, “Why don’t I go to these more often?” And then I remember — distance. My fantasy is that the chain opens an outpost in Dallas proper within walking…
Hear that? It’s the sound of thousands of peoples’ livers collectively breathing a sigh of relief. A boozy whirlwind of a weekend concluded last night with the Craft Cocktails Texas wrap-up party at The People’s Last Stand in Mockingbird Station. The rum flowed like a river as drinkers enjoyed delightfully…
Each year as the third Sunday in June approaches, I get a little wistful. My parents split up many years ago, as parents so often do these days, around the time I discovered Boone’s Farm and fruit punch-flavored Zima. (Remember that stuff? I’m still convinced teenage girls were their target…
Surely it’s difficult to convince your spouse that it’s a good idea to quit your day job to distill whiskey. Considering that’s exactly what Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson did, they must be really good talkers. In a salvaged Prohibition-era warehouse south of downtown Fort Worth, they’re filling barrels and…
If you’ve ever sipped a $12 cocktail in Dallas, you’ve likely sampled the handiwork of Jason Kosmas. When we last caught up with him, he was boozing it up as the beverage director at Marquee Grill, but he’s also done time at Neighborhood Services and Bolsa and lent his expertise…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each day. This week we added specials at Aw Shucks, Truluck’s, Dave & Buster’s, Monica’s Aca y Alla and Goff’s Hamburgers. We’ll do our…
Everyone’s favorite booze-soaked, chain-smoking, adultery-laden television series is about to disappear until 2013; yes, Mad Men’s season five finale airs this Sunday on AMC. (If you need to catch up, the first few seasons are on Netflix. You’re welcome.) But there’s no reason that your thirst for Old Fashioneds and…
Now that the greyhoundy tequila tasting is postponed to next Thursday, I’m sure you’re all wondering where you can get your premium spirit this weekend. The answer, if you have cash money to spend, is at Abacus…
Update: This event has been postponed until next Thursday, June 14, because of weather. Tequila and dogs. They go together like wine and olives. Not particularly well. Except, of course, when you’re drinking tequila for an organization that supports four-legged friends. You can do just that at Maximo Cocina Mexicana…
Summer is just about upon us, and with it lighter session beers, wheats and wits. And while those can be complex, satisfying brews, it’s still nice to take the occasional break from them for richer (and more alcoholic) choices. Or maybe that’s just my too-tolerant liver talking. A few events…
Have you had the pleasure of viewing the new Jägermeister television ad? No? Allow me to set the scene for you. The setting is some unknown snowy landscape; the wind howls as we spot the signature Jäger deer in the distance. A dude who may or may not be a…
There are a lot of things that irritate me about clubs (long lines in the girls’ bathroom, aggressively flirty dudes in Tapout tees), but the thing I hate the most is shitty, expensive drinks. Fourteen dollars for a poorly mixed gin and tonic made with well liquor that’s guaranteed to…
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind,” Humphrey Bogart once said. His wise words are printed on the menu at Tate’s, a craft cocktail outpost housed in an old Victorian house on Mckinney Avenue that opened last December, and where I found myself in…
