How ’bout a Harvey Milk Punch?

I’m not necessarily a last-minute kind of guy.  This past weekend I decided to stray away from that mold and hold a spontaneous Oscars party at our apartment in Brooklyn.  It was small.  Small to us really means small.  Anything bigger on such short notice would have been disasterous. 
Food was a given.  I cooked a [...]

The Bitter Truth of it All

It’s a very sad weekend in the liquor business, for this is the weekend we say goodbye to LeNell’s Wine and Spirits Boutique in Red Hook, Brooklyn.  LeNell has been gracing us with her presence now for the last few years in the Hook, and yesterday she had to shutter her doors for good (at [...]

The Experimental Experience

For those who may not know, I just returned from a week-long soujourn in Paris and Champagne. Tough life, ain’t it? I was urged that if I were to only go to two cocktail lounges in Paris, that I should visit the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Hotel and the Experimental Cocktail Club in the [...]