Cocktail trends come and cocktail trends go, and sometimes they even come back again before you even know they went. According to today’s Times, rum is on the up and up, meanwhile, it seems like just yesterday that tiki bar Waikiki Wally’s opened, then closed, in the East Village.

But you really don’t realize how ridiculous [...]

Most American hard ciders are too sweet to pair with food, so we were thrilled to discover this tart, dry Bereziartua cider at Vinegar Hill House. Not only is this sparkly drink a great palate cleanser, it goes well with meat, cheese and everything autumnal in between.

It’s available at Astor Wines for $9.99. Astor Wines, [...]

Some warm summer nights call out for sangria, but with the weather as fickle as it’s been, you rarely know it 12 hours in advance. Fortunately there are shortcuts to traditional sangria that will make it taste as if it’s been steeping all afternoon, even if you put it together at the 11th hour. This [...]

This Asian spin on a Bloody Mary was inspired by Sake Bar Hagi, though it isn’t served there. As at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, an Asian Bloody Mary is the cuisine of a country that doesn’t actually exist.
On a recent night at Hagi with Joey Deckle, he asked for some shichimi pepper. This blend of chili [...]

This past weekend, a few of us whipped up an excellent drink from the BVI. The Painkiller originates from the Soggy Dollar Bar in Jost Van Dyke, just north of St. John. The only difficult thing about this drink is finding one of the ingredients, Coco Lopez (creme de coconut – not the same as [...]

Some people taste one of the many new iced teas filling up the cooler at Whole Foods and think, that’s good. Others try the same tea and think, that’s good, but it would be even better with alcohol.
I have an addiction to Teas’ Tea. It’s not pretty: I will spend 10 or 20 minutes looking for [...]

Poor Mexico! Just when they were getting the drug cartels under control, along comes the swine flu. On this Cinco de Mayo, toast to their improved health – and the future health of tourism there – with a Michelada.
Translating literally as “my frozen beer,” the Michelada is hard to find outside of Mexico but extremely [...]

This recipe for Scandanavian mulled wine, glogg (pronounced GLOOG), is adapted from the Market Cafe, where proprietress Fanny Farkas used to serve a number of holiday specialties from her native Sweden.
Alas, the Market Cafe is not serving glogg this season, since Fanny seems to be traveling, but it’s simple to make yourself. (I like making [...]