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Farmer Bottega’s Rosie Elephant inspires one’s inner Rainbow Warrior

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Quentin Tarantino cocktail suite at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas

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The Dude abides with 619’s White Russian

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Fruits, nuts, and flowers instead of Glocks, gin, and blunts

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Farmer Bottega’s Rosie Elephant inspires one’s inner Rainbow Warrior

When the Farmer’s Bottega bartender Shannon Pierce created The Rosie Elephant, she looked to local farmlands and African savannas for inspiration. “It really originated out of nowhere!” she says. “I ...

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Quentin Tarantino cocktail suite at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas

Mobsters generally don’t like surprises – and yet to stay in the game they have to be full of surprises. Just ask Nice Guy Eddy, Mr. Pink, or Mr. Black ...

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The Dude abides with 619’s White Russian

619 Spirits North Park is the tasting room and eatery for its mothership, 619 Vodka. Both were named for San Diego’s area code, but that doesn’t mean 619’s founder and ...

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Fruits, nuts, and flowers instead of Glocks, gin, and blunts

Pacific Beach Alehouse is brewing up more than beer on its menu these days, says Pacific Beach bartender Sierra Berryessa. The surfside suds factory still spins its palate wheel of ...

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Neither smoke nor sweet

The Maguey Agrio served at Banker’s Hill is the Mexican answer to the whiskey sour, says its creator, Banker’s Hill bar manager Colin Berger. Referencing mescal’s plant of origin and the Spanish word for “sour,” ...

January 11, 2019

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Fruit bound for cocktail glory

Citrus myrtaflora—more commonly known in its native Italy as the chinotto—is a diminutive member of the orange family, and it has a secret. But it’s one of the worst kinds of secret—one that everyone knows ...

December 28, 2018

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December 14, 2018

A spicy Old Fashioned

Consider the quotidian comforts of the common whiskey flask. The preferred vade mecum of serious sippers, this versatile vessel fits in pocket, purse, or petticoat—a genie in a bottle who, at a moment’s command, provides ...

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November 30, 2018

A Mai Tai that courts the palate with a flourish of flavors

The Monkey King (aka Sun Wukong), a Buddhist superhero of Chinese legend, carries a 17-ton staff and can travel 13,500 miles in one somersault. He can also effortlessly transform into any inanimate object or living ...

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September 13, 2018

Hybrid Mule in Pacific Beach

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August 23, 2018

Waterbar’s Merlion

Sing, o goddess, of the rage of Singapore’s Merlion!... Well, okay, Homer never got around to singing about Singapore, but the old Greek scribbler also never had Waterbar’s Merlion to get his inspirational juices flowing… ...

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August 10, 2018

Voodoo culture

The Cat Eye Club is a weird hybrid— a Tiki bar with a speakeasy vibe. It might be too dear to refer to it as a “Tik-easy,” but stranger things have come out of the ...

Booze News Drink Recipes Little Italy

July 26, 2018

A strong stirred direct cocktail

If your tongue is quiet enough, it can taste the whisper of Japanese whisky folded gently into the other spirits that Herb & Wood’s cocktail curator Meghan Balser puts into her Vodka & Lavender. “I ...

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Booze News Drink Recipes Little Italy

Nighttime spreads its cloak

The Cloak & Petal’s bar manager Faisal Asseri explains that the name for Little Italy’s Japanese-inspired restaurant blends opposites to form a new whole. “Cloak” communicates mystery and intrigue, and “Petal” is a rough English ...

July 3, 2018

Booze News Drink Recipes Gaslamp

A warm greeting in a glass

Say “Sawatdi!” to the Sawadee! “Sawatdi” is a common Thai greeting (like Hawaii’s “Aloha!”) and the Sawadee (same word respelled for the American palate) is one of the newest inspirations from Prohibition mix-master Heath Wetherbee. ...

April 5, 2018

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January 17, 2018

Not Yo' Mama's gin and tonic

Co-owner of Pillbox Tavern, Ryan Jones has something preposterous. He’s messed with that bit of perfection known as the gin and tonic. And what he’s come up with — well, it’s not your dad’s gin ...

Downtown San Diego Drink Recipes

January 3, 2018

A mojito with grassy flavor

The Gaslamp’s newest Cuban eatery, Havana 1920, seeks to capture the heyday of America’s Playground and its pre-communist jazz-and-limelight nightlife. The restaurant’s beverage director Ryan Andrews says that its owners were inspired to open the ...

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Farmer Bottega’s Rosie Elephant inspires one’s inner Rainbow Warrior

Quentin Tarantino cocktail suite at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas

The Dude abides with 619’s White Russian

Fruits, nuts, and flowers instead of Glocks, gin, and blunts

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