On a recent weekend away in the Queensland capital, we hit up some of Brisbane’s best bars and restaurants before our heads hit the pillow at designer haven Spicers Balfour Hotel. Here are our tips for eating and drinking in Fortitude Valley, just a short hop from this hip urban bolthole.
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This citrusy tropical drink was created and perfectly named by the Blues Bar in Curaçao. Servings: 1 Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Malibu rum 1 1/2 oz. blue Curacao liqueur 3 oz. pineapple juice Dash lemon juice Lime wedge Instructions: … Continued
Some restaurants let you have your chocolate and drink it, too. The Peninsula, Chicago When The Peninsula needed a cocktail to complete its chocolate buffet spread, bartender Aaron Johnson developed three, and all of them ended up on the regular bar menu. This S’mores Martini (pictured above) causes the most fuss: Patrons smell the barkeepsRead more »
On Saturday, January 28, Robert Furniss-Roe, Regional President of Bacardi North America, along with Facundo L. Bacardi, Chairman of Bacardi Limited and great-great grandson of Company founder Don Facundo Bacardà Massó, welcomed 150 of Miami’s most elite tastemakers, Bacardà … Continued
Tom Laslavic, our award-winning mixologist, is preparing for the Signature Event cocktail competition on February 29 in Portland. He earned the People’s Choice Award in 2010 with his cocktail The Camden Hike and this year he’s competing for People’s Choice and for top honors in a professionally judged cocktail competition.
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Bartender and mixologist Tom Laslavic recently had one of his cocktails included as part of a select number of cocktails that highlighted local ingredients around the country featured on a travel website, called Sharing Travel Experiences. Tom has created an entire series of Maine Made Cocktails and is still adding to the list of delicious [...]
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So how do bartenders manage to make perfect, spiral
lemon garnish for a cocktail? If you are planning on hosting a cocktail party anytime soon, be sure to watch this video from Jamie Boudreau, host of “Raising the B…
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