Vanilla Goodness

Last week I enjoyed Madagascar in it’s liquid form at Tailor in the West Village.  Our hostess with the mostest, the brand ambassador for Navan Vanilla Liqueur (which is, of course, a liqueur made from Madagascar vanilla beans and cognac), Aisha Sharpe, was out in full form (she’d been drinking since brunch that morning).  This [...]

Summer…meet Fall.

Do ya feel the nip in the air?  Huh?  Do ya!?
I do, and frankly, I’m glad.  Don’t judge me for liking the Fall weather better than Summer’s excruciating humidity.  Although there tend to me more ingredients to work with during the summer (cocktail-wise, that is), the Fall still lends itself to some wonderful favorites (enter [...]

Don’t turn off that annoying Taxi TV…& USBG-NY Happy Hour!

You may just catch a glimpse of me making some Fall wedding drinks.  Gosh darnit – didn’t realize how much play it would get.  Folks have come out of the woodworks to tell me about how they saw me in a cab on their way home.  So if you get into a cab in NYC, and it’s [...]

Pic Your Olives Not Your Toes!

A couple of years ago (geez, has it been that long!), a young lady approached me as I was slinging drinks at The Campbell Apartment for commuters catching their 6:32 Metro-North trains. (As a side bar, if you haven’t been over to this magnificent prohibition-era cocktail lounge, you’re missing out.  There is not other space [...]