Salt Shakers

Sodium chloride hits the cocktail glass

Salt in restaurant food is receiving a drubbing these days. In the cocktail world, though, salt is not exiting the bar or restaurant--it's leaping into the drinks...

Not Potato

Vodka grows some local roots

Vodka has been working on an image change. For years, cocktail snobs and mixologists have been bemoaning vodka's increasingly bland and ubiquitous flavor. However, thanks to a few...

Written in Foam

A journal for your drinking exploits

Across the country, these are boon times for drinking craft beer: Coffee-flavored stouts and freshly hopped ales are now as commonplace as Bud. But with this abundance of quality...

Big Ideas, Small Hands

Throwback cocktail staples for the modern mixologist

Small Hand Foods' Jennifer Colliau is an invaluable resource for the most dedicated bartenders in the Bay Area. Now, Colliau is taking some of her impeccable syrups and extracts...

Bitter Repose

No Angostura? No worries.

The recent shortage of Angostura bitters has serious cocktail buffs in a bind. This secret blend of herbs and spices, which has long outgrown its original purpose--disguising the...