We've Seen Some Great Shaker Faces, But This One Is the Best

There's a whole lotta shakin' going on.

Posted 08/12/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: cocktails, eben freeman, mixology, newsfeed, tailor

$5 Margaveza Among ‘GQ’ Top 20 Cocktails in America

A punky Brooklynite is in distinguished Manhattan company.

Posted 07/22/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: audrey saunders, cocktails, daddy's, death and co., eben freeman, kaffir collins, margaveza, mixology, newsfeed, nightlife, pegu club, tailor

John Hodgman Unlikely Star of Mixologist Calendar

In what will surely become mixology’s version of Yankees Stadium's Monument Park, Jill DeGroff, wife of “King of Cocktails” Dale, has sketched caricatures of a dozen “cocktailians” and included them in a calendar that’s going for $17.95 (about the price of an overpriced drink!). Some of the local drink-slingers whose recipes and rosy-cheeked mugs are featured: Audrey Saunders from Pegu Club, Julie Rainer from Flatiron Lounge, and Sasha Petraske from Milk and Honey. Our favorite part, though, is the page on which a pants-less John Hodgman gives his preferred synonyms for booze.

Posted 10/17/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: audrey sanders, dale degroff, flatiron lounge, jill degroff, john hodgman, julie rainer, milk and honey, mixology, newsfeed, pegu club, sasha petraske