The topic of protecting ones creative cocktail works has amp’d up lately. After Eben Freeman's session of cocktails and intellectual property (which unfortunately I couldn’t attend due to a conflicting event) the conversation has started to polarize and two camps are forming – for protection and against protection
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Copyright & Cocktails
After a glorious outpourious of teams last week, I hoped for my Labor Day fun to continue last night at the Elm with a bountiful bevy of brain-busting bar -ticipants with which to share my quiz. However, many Denveronians must have been pooped out from barbecues and day drinking and horseshoes and DUI arrests, and as such I was greeted with 2 and a half teams.
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Back to Basics Bitches
Great night for quizzery last night at the Ballard Loft! The weather was a little poor which always puts a damper on the turnout but this is Seattle folks, if you don’t go out in the rain here then you are basically agoraphobic. Still, plenty of real Pacific Northwesterners out here showed up to compete and a tough competition it was! A lot of challenges to the answers last night as well, most challenges being correct! See, sometimes it does pay to give me a hard time.
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Wasn’t She a Great Big Fat Person?
Geeks Who Drink Blog This last Geeks was an abnormal one for The Rockslide; the overcast clouds threatened to end the show before it began, and our fearless alcoholic leader was absent, which left me in charge for the first time ever. Dustin and I were like two fat, belligerent versions of Lindsay Lohan from The Parent Trap; trading places and covering each others back, with an eerie bro-mantic subtext lying ever so subtly beneath the surface.
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Daniel is a White, Geeky Machete
“Would you like a drink of water,” he seems to be saying, “out of this thing that looks like a urinal?” One of the odder sights at the farmers’ markets this summer has been the impromptu wa…
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NYC’s Department of Environmental Protection Flogs Its Own Drinking Water
A DRINK driver was three times the legal limit when he hit a cyclist fatally throwing him through the windscreen of his vehicle and onto a passenger.
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Drink driver was three times the limist when he killed cyclist
A food, drink and floral show celebrating the best of Northern Ireland’s produce will take place at Belfast’s Botanic Gardens this month. Related Stories Banknote printer woes cost £35m Sales jump 10% at budget hotel chain Cultra Manor set for £3m revamp UK house prices edge ahead by 0.2% Coca-Cola plant ‘will bring benefits to Northern Ireland’
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Food and drink show gets blooming better
DRINK-driving offences in the Albury area are set to soar past the 100 mark before Christmas.
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Albury drink-drivers close in on a grim total
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 1) Upper West Side : Per a tipster, the long-vacant space that was formerly Monsoon at 81st and Amsterdam Ave is “showing signs of life.” It’s going to be a branch of NYC Thai chain Spice [PLYWOOD] 2) East Village : EV Grieve snaps a shot of signage for Cafe St. Marks, the upcoming FroYo and tea spot that’s taking over the old Red Mango space, thus continuing the never-ending cycle of FroYo and tea on St
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The Plywood Report: Spice, Casa Havana, Percy’s Tavern, and More Coming Soon
Sorry, no updates just yet on M.Volt’s anticipated new restaurant , but after chatting up the chef at TOBH, he conceded to arranging a treasure hunt for Eater and will drop clues about the new endeavor, right MV? Anyway, Josh Goldman , former Sommelier at The Langham and M.Volt’s right hand man, also slated to takeover front of house plus vino duties at that upcoming eatery, apparently has some down time (which leads us to believe the restaurant is still a ways off?). So, Josh has decided to partner up with friends George Abou-Daoud (District, Mercantile, Delancey) and District chef Kris Morningstar to take over District ‘s alcohol situation as guest bartender/mixologist starting this Thursday and running for the next few weeks.
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Temporary Engagements: Josh Goldman Guest Bartends at District This Thursday
Although the dining rooms of the city are filled with many happy couples, they are also inhabited by lovesick diners looking to catch the eye of that special someone. Sometimes, these people take to Craigslist, to try and find that guy or girl who they saw from across the dining room, but weren’t able to muster the courage to say something to. Here now are a few restaurant missed connections — perhaps love is on the menu for these lonely people sometime soon
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Matters of the Heart : New York Restaurant Missed Connections
This summer, we jumped in our pink Cadillac and hit the road. As we indicated a few months back , our Stateside voyage across to the last frontier was a hotel hunt of epic proportions and turned in some treasure… We couldn’t believe our luck when we stumbled upon Dunton Hot Springs (left), a one-time ghost town, sat snug in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains . The old mining village has been converted into cosy boutique cabins, and you can still have a drink in the original Saloon, where former patrons have included Butch and Sundance.
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New hotels: Rockies retreats and eastern jewels
Inside The Taste of Beverly Hills, Saturday afternoon. [Photo: sadjeans ] · Best thing I ate at the L.A
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Listage: Eagle Rock Brewery Brews L.A. Beer Week Beer; Wendy’s To Phase Out Unpopular Hamburger Sandwich
Photo: Gauthier Soho Welcome to Bon Vivant ’s summary of the critics’ restaurant reviews. Enjoy! AA Gill, The Sunday Times AA Gill visits Tinello , a ‘simple and smart’ restaurant in Pimlico with ‘very reasonable prices’ and a ‘soigné atmosphere’.
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Bon Vivant’s Restaurant Reviews Summary
A SERIAL drink-driver duped the authorities into wiping her “clearly deserved” five-year driving ban off the official records, York Crown Court heard.
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Drink-driver duped DVLA to wipe record clean
Two drink-driving mothers caught over the weekend had their children in the car with them.
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Drink-drivers caught with children passengers
In-N-Out Burger busy I am no longer an In-N-Out Burger virgin. When you’re a reporter within the restaurant trade industry, it’s a rare chain whose name you don’t at least recognize. So I’d heard of In-N-Out Burger for years, but it wasn’t until I read Tricia Honea’s blog post here at Uptake on the chain that I had an inkling it was a fast food favorite.
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In-N-Out Burger Mania = Huh?
Greetings All! It is a great release coming your way this weekend – wines hailing from the southern Rhône valley from the spectacular 2007 vintage. Most of the wines from the southern Rhône appellations are blends which predominantly include Grenache and Syrah
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Vintages Value List Release Saturday Sept. 4, 2010
The hurricane is fizzling out before it gets here, but we’re running for cover anyway. See you all back here bright and early on Tuesday morning. Happy eating .
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EaterWire: Snapshots From Johnny Iuzzini’s Awesome Vacation and Other Holiday Weekend Sendoffs
At the opening gala for our photo exhibition last nigh, the jury designated Guillaume Amat the winner of the 2010 PHPA Prize… Guillaume seemed really pleased to have won the prize, which comes with a cheque for 3,000 euros. Even better than that: this year we have a new partnership with the prestigious Esther Woerderhoff Gallery which means that Guillaume will have his own exhibition there next year
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Guillaume Amat wins the 2010 PHPA prize