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“From a consumer point of view, ordering a martini — essentially a two-ingredient drink — and being served from a premade mix feels insulting,” said Alyson Sheppard, a beverage and food writer for the Robb Report who joined in the Twitter exchange.
For a week in August downtown Mobile turned into a backyard luau.
Las Almas Rotas’ motto is: “Tequila to wake the living. Mezcal to wake the dead.”
Some of the drinks need to be served with an instruction manual--evidence of the ambition this place has.
Windmill Lounge — in its current iteration — looks as if a dive bar was drowned in bleach, shellacked over with erotic art and told to smile.
You cannot build a dive bar. Dive bars are formed slowly, like stalactites, after years of buildup of scuff marks, spilled beers and punched walls.
It really feels like a house party, as if the bartenders are at home, reaching into a private, well-stocked bar cabinet to serve you and their friends drinks.
This impressive cocktail bar has massive windows and bubbly drinks that enliven and light up the whole neighborhood.
Never did we think Hungarian goulash would become our favorite Dallas bar food, but here we are.
Even if you’ve never been to a séance before, you know how they work in the movies. And just like an overly produced séance, Bowen House has the visuals, but not the soul.
Many of us have become desensitized to craft cocktails. Instead of abandoning the category altogether, we can seek out bars with palate-cleansing drinks: well made, no-nonsense classics that remind you why you loved cocktails to begin with.
Phoenix may be situated in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, but culture in this town is far from barren.
ILL exists in the science fiction future, where every high-rise contains all of your necessary amenities — brewskies, slices of pepperoni and potential dates — so you never have to exit the building.
In the current bar landscape of Deep Ellum — where Uptown-like bars are invading with lame concepts, bad drinks and boring crowds — this strip of Elm Street is proving itself to be a legit, blossoming cocktail destination.
Bar Institute, the premier program for peer to peer education built by and for the bar community, will host classes in Dallas focused on the business of the bar. Writer Alyson Sheppard will lead the seminar "How to Get the Media to Pay Attention to Your Bar."
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Alyson Sheppard has been named publisher and editor in chief of the soon-to-launch Edible Lower Alabama, where she will cover food and drink from Montgomery to Mobile.
Tales of the Cocktail has named Alyson Sheppard a finalist for its Best Cocktail & Spirits Writer Spirited Award. The winner will be announced in July.
