TotC 2010: Plate & Glass Seminar

SeanMike | August 7, 2010

Due to some confusion on my part about timings, I’d signed up for a mezcal session at the Royal Sonesta at 1 PM.  Getting out of the cab with John the Bastard at the Monteleone after checking into my “work” hotel (La Pavillon, over in the CBD, or Commercial Business District), I ran into a [...]

Leopold Spirits

SeanMike | September 9, 2009

Hi guys!  Remember me? It’s been a while.  We hit Tales of the Cocktail back in July – and not long after I got back from that I found out that my job was sending me out of the country.  It was the first time for me doing so, which also meant I got to [...]

ToTC Recipe Book Winner

Marshall | September 8, 2009

Annnnnnndddddddd . . . we have a winner!  The rules were pretty simple.  Tell me how you started down the cocktail path, the catalyst if you will, and tell me your favorite cocktail. And the winner is Helena Tiare Olson from Stockholm, Sweden.  Tiare is also the writer of A Mountain of Crushed Ice.  And [...]

What do you think of when you hear “Dr. Bamboo”?

SeanMike | June 27, 2009

I think of a fiendish villain in a mountain lair, twirling his fu manchu mustache while drawing entertaining pictures of his enemies being destroyed… …or of tiki drinks with a bamboo garnish. Like Jay, I’m afraid today’s is going to be sans picture because I don’t have one ready for it and I need a [...]

Where’s the fire?

SeanMike | June 13, 2009

Unfortunately my camera isn’t good enough to catch the fire I wanted, and I wasn’t good enough to get the flames I was hoping for.  But this is a short and easy drink that – honestly – I did drink, and did like quite a bit. Tiare of “A Mountain of Crushed Ice” is a [...]