The Cooking Banana Cocktail

Plantains are never the stars of the show. The starchy cooking bananas are a lot like the malt that makes malt whisky. It takes a process to turn sweet.

Dolores Park Swizzle

In these caronavirus times, with bars throughout San Francisco closed, I’ve found myself increasingly willing to make more complicated cocktails. The Dolores Park Swizzle is one such drink. Hailing from the Death and Co. Cocktail Book, the drink contains X …

New Best Friend

We decided to start with the Old Pal as a template and started by subbing a blend of Laphroaig and Glen Moray in for Rye whiskey. We found that the Campari dominated the concoction, so we went back to the drawing board.

Laphroaig-groni

It’s Negroni week 2019 in San Francisco! A veritable Christmas for lovers of the best cocktail out there in which each bar features its own special variant (or multiple variants) of the cocktail. The problem is figuring out where to …