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Champagne cocktails at Green Street 2/12/07
Champagne is special. Cocktails are special. Put the two together and you get something even greater than the sum of its fabulous parts, a champagne cocktail. And I’m not talking about the drink where...
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Night of bubbles and booze
What better way to spend a Monday night in February than at a cozy neighborhood restaurant drinking champagne cocktails mixed by some of Boston’s best bartenders? That’s the sound reasoning that...
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Martha Washington Punch & Champagne Juleps
I was lucky enough to be present at a July 4 roofdeck party where Misty Kalkofen appropriately brought along a batch of Martha Washington Rum Punch. The stuff was to be admired on principle alone;...
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The Mrs. Jones Cocktail
A friend of mine recently asked me to create a cocktail for her wedding. I was honored. I immediately began imagining cognac and champagne mixtures with fresh citrus and exotic liqueurs. Then my friend...
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Feel the fizz!
No, 2004 wasn’t a fluke. The Red Sox just won the 2007 World Series. And incidentally, Manny Ramirez knows more about baseball than you do. Let’s not stop drinking bubbly ’til New Year’s! In victory,...
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The most fun I ever had at a library
Last night, the Boston Athenaeum, one of America’s oldest private libraries, threw a Roaring Twenties party for some of its members with the help of drinkboston. There was a password to get in...
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Lady’s Martini at Mooo
I tend to be skeptical of trendy new drink menus, especially those at trendy new restaurants that are obviously cashing in on a popular concept. In this case, I’m talking about the drink menu at Mooo,...
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Can-Can
LUPEC Boston (invented for Chartreuse party) 5 sour cherries 1 oz yellow Chartreuse 1/4 oz fresh grapefruit juice 1 dash Angostura bitters Sparkling wine Muddle the sour cherries in a mixing glass. Add...
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Mrs. Jones
Lauren Clark (invented for Mrs. Jones’ wedding, 2007) Makes 2 cocktails 1 oz gin 1 tsp simple syrup 4 dashes Regan’s orange bitters 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters Champagne Shake first four ingredients...
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Dancing Scotsman
Invented at Eastern Standard 1 oz Dewar’s Scotch 1 oz lemon juice 1 oz honey syrup Shake with ice and strain into a coupe. Fill with sparkling wine and garnish with a flamed lemon twist dropped in....
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