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• Things Get Messy When Bartenders Crack an Egg

  After the Department of Health cited Manhattan’s Pegu Club for serving a cocktail that contained raw egg, some mixologists are thinking twice before cracking a shell. Read More... Posted Feb 02 2010, 06:23 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Eggs, Bars, Salmonella (Bacteria), Bartenders, Cocktails, Health Department

• Dining Briefs | Recently Opened: Bar Pleiades and Ardesia Wine Bar

  Two sleek new bars come from illustrious food families: Ardesia, descended from Le Bernardin; and Bar Pleiades, from Daniel Boulud. Read More... Posted Jan 12 2010, 05:21 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, New York City, Le Bernardin, Bars, Boulud, Daniel, Wine Bars, Cafe Boulud

• Shaken & Stirred: 500-Year-Old Liqueur Hits the Cocktail Circuit

  Bénédictine, which celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2010, has evolved from a bitter medicine formulated by French monks into a fancy-schmantzy after-dinner liqueur. Read More... Posted Dec 24 2009, 09:44 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Bars, Cocktails

• Shaken & Stirred: The Choices? Rum and Rum

  Roneria Caracas, which opened last month inside Caracas Brooklyn, is the latest incarnation of what could be the next new thing in drinking. Read More... Posted Dec 11 2009, 08:54 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Bars, Rum, Cocktails

• Winter Drinks Issue: The Final Frontier? It’s an Eye-Opener

  Drinking at brunch is nothing new, of course. But brunching at places where people go mainly to drink is. Read More... Posted Dec 01 2009, 06:44 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Holidays and Special Occasions, Bars, Cocktails

• Heads Up: Singapore’s New Breed of Bar

  As the city’s thirst for cocktails has grown steadily over the last few years, a new generation of bars and clubs has emerged in some memorably unusual places. Read More... Posted Oct 30 2009, 12:00 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Travel and Vacations, Bars, Singapore

• Dining Briefs | Checking In: Rocky Sullivan’s

  It may profile as Grumpy McDuff’s, but Rocky Sullivan’s bar in Red Hook, now two years out of its original lower Lexington Avenue home, is coming into its Brooklyn own. Read More... Posted Oct 27 2009, 03:54 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, New York City, Red Hook (NYC), Bars

• Shaken & Stirred: Cheers Minus the Beers: Let’s Drink to Small Talk

  Increasingly solemn, the new breed of bartender, found at cocktail-centric bars, keeps a strict and near-exclusive focus on what’s inside the glass. Read More... Posted Oct 16 2009, 03:04 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Bars, Bartenders, Cocktails

• ‘Boneless’ Wings, the Cheaper Bite

  The once-lowly wing is selling over what has long been the standard of poultry parts, the chicken ***. Read More... Posted Oct 12 2009, 07:28 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Recession and Depression, Bars, Chickens

• The Pour: A Place for Wine Without the Lecture

  You would never know that the Ten Bells is a wine bar except that the wines are so good, and so offbeat. Read More... Posted Oct 05 2009, 12:40 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Wines, New York City, Bars, Wine Bars, Lower East Side (NYC)

• The Pour: A Beer, Please, and a (Good) Menu

  Great beer abounds today in New York. But while aficionados yearn to have beer taken as seriously as wine, too often beer is presented in a context that diminishes the respect it deserves. Read More... Posted Jun 23 2009, 03:37 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Beer, Bars

• It’s Not So Mysterious: The Secret Is in the Swizzle

  A category of cocktails that are not shaken or stirred, but rather swizzled with a genuine swizzle stick, snapped off a tree native to the Caribbean. Read More... Posted Jun 23 2009, 03:02 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Bars, Bartenders, Cocktails

• Mixing Drinks With Work and Staying Sober, Too

  Although the hospitality industry has outgrown many of its hard-partying ways, nondrinkers and bar or restaurant work don’t always mix easily. Read More... Posted Jun 23 2009, 02:54 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Alcoholic Beverages, Alcohol Abuse, Bars, Bartenders, Chefs, Stress (Human)

• Dining Briefs | Bars: A Bar With a Hypothesis

  With Mayahuel, the barman Philip Ward makes his case that tequila and its cousin, mezcal, are not occasions for sunburned debauchery, but rather opportunities for contemplative drinking. Read More... Posted Jun 16 2009, 05:13 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Bars, Tequila

• Food Stuff: These Wines Don’t Have to Travel Well

  Michael Dorf, the owner of City Winery, has the wines made at his wine bar and event space in SoHo. Read More... Posted Jun 16 2009, 04:37 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Wines, Bars, Wine Bars, Dorf, Michael, City Winery