When a restaurant named Foreign Cinema opened on Mission Street in San Francisco in 1999, a lot of people were curious, but many were uncertain it could survive on a block with many vacant buildings, including the adjacent and long-closed New Mission Theatre. Continue reading
The “hot versus cold” dichotomy may be one of sake’s biggest distractions. Continue reading
The Negroni is one of the simplest and most elegant drink formulas around: combine one part gin, one part sweet vermouth, and one part Campari, then stir and serve over ice.
Not every revolution requires an insurrection, and not every renaissance begins in salons, galleries or cloistered chambers. Continue reading
by Daniel Barnes and Darcey Self-Barnes
6% ABV
Purchased at Taylor’s Market ($4.99/22 oz. bottle) and poured into pint glasses. Continue reading
by Vince Keenan
We’re all facing the same problem right now: planning our Canada Day cocktail menus for July 1. The most popular drink among our neighbors to the north is the Caesar. Continue reading
by Daniel and Darcey Self-Barnes
10% ABV
Purchased through Rare Beer Club and poured into tulip glasses. Continue reading
by Vince Keenan
“Prohibition? They tried that in the movies and it didn’t work.”
—Homer Simpson Continue reading
Here there be spoilers.
If we start talking about time travel—jotting little notes on cocktail napkins and trying to visualize what must be a clusterfuck of a temporal highway interchange—then we’ll never get anything done. Continue reading
by David Templeton
Cinematic history is crammed with films in which, at one moment or another, someone talks about wine, shops for wine, or actually drinks wine — or in the case of the Creature in Young Frankenstein , just tries to drink wine (“A toast . . . to a long friendship!” Crash!). Continue reading
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