First stop in Brooklyn was Char No.4 on Smith Street. This bar/restaurant specialises in Whisky, and they certainly have a great selection! As well as offering half price specials and flights they also do a short cocktail list. We tried the Noreaster (Old Crow Whisky, Ginger beer, Lime, Maple Syrup) which was a perfect refresher [...]
You can still get away from the glitz of gentrified Manhattan without leaving the island, and if Essex Street is anything to go by, it’s well worth trying. Sasha Petraske’s White Star bar began by specialising in niche spirits but has since deviated from this unusual approach and now serves a short menu of interesting [...]
I finally had chance to go on a cocktail pilgrimmage to New York and will be blogging about the experiences over the next few weeks. First impressions of New York were very encouraging on the liquid refreshment front. Our hotel, the Washington Square, had a cosy basement lounge. Remarkably they stocked my favourite beer from [...]
Tucked away in a quiet Paris side street, just off the funky Rue Montorgueil, is a petite bar with a growing reputation for it’s cocktails. The Experimental Coctktail Club has opened bars in London and New York, but it was nice to have the opportunity to check out the original Club in Paris. Smart and [...]
The annual Leeds Loves Food festival is always a great chance to sample some of the local culinary delights on offer from Yorkshire and beyond. If you didn’t manage to make it along, we did the hard work of tasting our way across Millenium Square, and have blogged the highlights for you. Cocktails were popular [...]
On a recent trip to Finland I spent a day in the European Capital of Culture: Turku. Following the international theme, I ate in a Brazilian restaurant. Not quite what I was expecting to find in the old capital of Finland, but the delicious food and fabulous Caipirinhas made it a worthwhile visit. I was [...]
Market Town Taverns has been quietly building a reputation in Yorkshire for quality pubs that provide a decent alternative to the hugely commercial pub chains that in places seem to have a stranglehold on town and city drinking. The ten pubs of the ‘Taverns group focus on quality beer and wine, most play no music [...]
Drinking cocktails is not the first thing that springs to mind in a predominantly Muslim country, such as Morroco, but opportunities do exist. The bar at the hotel we were recently staying at used either cocktail pre-mixes or little judgement in their mixing. On requesting an off menu choice of a Mojito, we received all [...]