It may be a little more taboo to call a hotel “Virgin” than an airline, but Sir Richard Branson’s gone there. Virgin spread its in-on-the-joke, cocktail-clinking image to the hospitality industry this year when it opened the sliding room doors at their first Virgin Hotel – a 250-room space …
Perched along the coves of Tomales Bay in the land of the oyster, Nick’s Cove offers cozy waterfront accommodations and an impressive restaurant with an oyster, cocktail, and wine bar. Of the 12 unique cottages on property, five sit directly on the water, with porches extending over the shores, …
“He Loves Me, He Loves me Not..” Here are a few San Francisco cocktails, with both bitter and sweet elements, to help count the ways San Francisco’s sourcing spring. “6.” – Trick Dog The number 6 ($13) is a nice play on the classic Martinez. The Tanqueray Old Tom …
Flames erupt from wooden canisters, wrapping the factory in a sheath of oaky smoke that turns incandescent under the ceiling lights. The white oak barrels are charred from the inside, their interiors turned a charcoal black that cracks and blisters under the heat. There is the sound of metal on …
Childhood nostalgia and adult beverages make a great pair. San Francisco’s latest iteration of child’s play and booze is Brewcade, a Market Street bar-arcade curated by Kai Villegas (formerly of Monk’s Kettle). The bar – opened on December 10 by the owners of neighboring cocktail bar Blackbird – has 25 …
The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin honors the dark stuff with a massive museum housed inside a giant Guinness pint glass. The property, which was initially used as a fermentation house in the early 1900s by founder Arthur Guinness, exhibits a history of the brand, ingredient sourcing, …
The Bombay Sapphire Distillery, located in Hampshire, England in an old paper mill, opened to the public for the first time on October 1 after a four-year refurbishment. Visitors can now tour the distillery, learn about the gin’s history, take a bartending master class, or simply sip Sapphire at the …
Standing Stone Brewing Company, located in quaint, green downtown Ashland, stands out as down to earth in the predominantly Shakespeare-themed town. At the bi-level brewpub, which features a bar, brew deck, and outdoor patio, taste the Steel-Cut Stout, which is brewed with 100 pounds of oats and won Silver at this …
Beer Belly bar has been filling guts with LA’s craft beer and crafty food since 2011. Sourcing most of its brews from greater Los Angeles, married owners Jimmy and Yume Han rotate 12 taps daily to include rare sours and barrel-aged specialties at the relaxed bar in LA’s Koreatown. With mosaic …
Industry City Distillery, the experimental Brooklyn distillery behind sugar beet-based Industry Standard Vodka began leading tours through its factory at the City Foundry this June. For their Industry Standard Vodka, the distillery uses an immobilized cell bioreactor fermentation system to transform beet sugar into 80-proof vodka made with yeast grown on-site from …
Bear Republic Brewing Company, located in scenic downtown Healdsburg, CA, and just a few miles from the Russian River, brews and pours their famed Racer 5 IPA and Red Rocket Ale along with seasonal brews from Brewmaster and COO Richard “Ricardo” Norgrove. Open since 1996, the brewpub, which has a sister …
Revitalizing transitional spaces with pop-ups is a San Francisco signature. The latest to make the most of the interim is The Hall, a collection of vendors that opened in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood, an area the city hopes to bring back to excitement over the next couple of years. In …