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Campari Calling: Americano

by eleni on April 23, 2010

Americano with a new take on a citrus garnish.

Winston-Salem: Milano-Torino.

Thankfully this isn’t the SAT or the GRE. But if you visit Campari’s site (which incidentally is repeated word for word on Wikipedia’s entry) you will discover the Americano was first called the “Milano-Torino” for Campari which hails from Milan and Cinzano, the vermouth, endemic to Turin.

The drink is straightforward: equal parts Campari and vermouth with a splash of club soda; served on the rocks. Don’t forget the garnish. [click to continue…]

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Sunday Night Cocktail Class with Adam Lantheaume of The Boston Shaker

by glenn on April 20, 2010

We Wineaux are an adventurous bunch – with our ears to the ground, always on the look out for the new and worthwhile, ready to go with a trend if we find it appealing.  A phenomenon of the Ought Decade, cocktail culture has grown in prominence. Every restaurant and bar now offer a signature – or so they hope – cocktail menu. In our travels, we’ve come to look for either good renditions of cocktails from the past or new twists on these classics. We are fans of Drink, Barbara Lynch’s craft cocktail bar. We’ve attended classes given by Jackson Cannon, head mixologist at Eastern Standard. And we adore – yes, adore – the “Model Behavior” at The Woodward Tavern, a sublime blend of St. Germain, Hendricks gin, Chandon Brut, and cucumber foam. When the opportunity presented itself for Adam Lantheaume, proprietor of The Boston Shaker, to conduct a class for us, it became our SNSC event for April. [click to continue…]

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Mai Tai Trail – Newton, Mass.

by eleni on April 20, 2010

South Pacific, Newton

The sign beckons you.

You know you want tiki.

Feeling like an intrepid reporter I set out to revisit South Pacific prior to Sunday Night Supper Club. Even if it wasn’t my intended destination, how could I resist? Then again, despite more than four years in California I can’t seem to reconcile myself to restaurants in strip malls.
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Campari Calling: The Jungle Bird

by eleni on April 17, 2010

The Jungle Bird

Last night I tried the “Jungle Bird” which I discovered on the Ladies United for the Preservation of the Endangered Cocktail (LUPEC) Boston blog. I am biased because the only organization that intrigues me more is the League of Chianti.
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Campari Calling: Anno 1960

by eleni on April 14, 2010

Anno MCMLX

I’m not sure why this drink isn’t called “Anno MCMLX” but I could be easily be accused of overusing Latin in these posts.

The Anno 1960 is a martini-style Campari-based drink. Even though I prefer ice-based drinks, I delighted in making it because I forgot how much I like my martini glasses and I need to branch out sometimes (hence my argument for starting Try Something New Night). But I felt a bit disappointed when I looked at the finished product; it resembled a Cosmopolitan and all the associations that come with them. [click to continue…]

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The Mai Tai Trail – North

by eleni on April 10, 2010

Chen's Garden, Manchester, NH


Easter egg hunts, sack races and piñatas.  It was enough to tire out any adult.  So it seemed like a good time to try out a completely new location for a mai tai adventure.

And I mean new.  This is a brand new building erected where once there was nothing.  I can’t think of the last time I sat in Chinese restaurant located in a brand new building.

Bit I digress.

Chen’s Garden, Manchester, NH

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The Ineluctable Pursuit

by eleni on April 8, 2010

Sloe Gin Fizz

Like Sisyphus rolling the rock up the hill eternally, my quest for a signature drink feels as futile.

Sure, it’s easy to like Manhattans (they are my father’s drink, too – see Glenn’s 3/23/10 entry), Martinis, and Margaritas, but a signature drink has to be more than that. For me it has to be a little bit different. But only a little bit. It has to be something you can get in pretty much any establishment. Unfortunately I’m a bit eclectic and even a bit too retro for my own good.

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The Gin Mill Spirit

23 March 2010

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Image of Nashoba Winery via Snooth

We do not spring fully formed from the head of Zeus but are nutured by our mortal parents. Often their likes and dislikes become ours. And so it was from my father that I acquired a love of manhattans and to this day no one can match my father’s skill [...]

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After the Ball…….Franklin Cafe Southie

26 January 2010

ShareWe Wineaux have a certain fondness for the South End Franklin Cafe, the result of an evening during which we drank our way through the entire cocktail menu. When we learned that an outpost of the cafe had opened in Southie, we put it it on our Bucket List. Now Southie isn’t our usual territory, so there [...]

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