Lesley Jacobs Solmonson

It's a rare day that you can enjoy a drink in both a bookie bar and an ice cream factory — at the same time. In its previous incarnations, the Chestnut Club (from the folks behind Black Market Liquor Bar and Scopa Italian Roots) was both. In fact, the faded......

A funny thing happened over the last few weeks on Facebook. Many bartenders changed their profile photo to a common image: that of a debonair-looking man, with piercing eyes, a beard and tattooed arms. His name is Charles Joly and, in the bartending community, he is the current hero at......

David Kaplan and Alexander Day met, fittingly, at a bar.  Death & Co. in Manhattan's East Village, to be exact, the much-lauded cocktail joint that Kaplan opened with Ravi DeRossi in 2006.  At the time, Day, who was managing another bar while going to grad school, lived a block and......

In the past five years or so, tequila has experienced an upswing in popularity that defies prediction. Once the boozy choice of collegiate party animal shooter games, and relegated to single-use status in the margarita, the agave spirit has risen to a place not only of respect, but adoration. The......

Today, we raise a glass to an American engineer named Jennings Stockton Cox, the purported creator of the daiquiri cocktail. In 1898, soon after the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba, Americans began to lead iron ore expeditions and Cox's team ended up in a little town named Daiqiuri......

The Piña Colada is the national drink of Puerto Rico, where the name means "strained pineapple." While several bartenders claim ownership of the drink's creation, it can most likely be traced back to the 1948 invention of Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut (emulsifiers and all) in Puerto Rico, which meshes......

In life, some things are sheer contrivance and others are full of such serendipity that they almost seem contrived in their coincidence. Such is the story behind Melrose Umbrella Co. — which opened in February in the former Foundry space on Melrose — a locale where Prohibition, wet weather and family history all collide......

In the old west, snake oil salesmen wandered the plains, peddling their wares to unsuspecting folk.  A good deal of their business was in health-giving tonics, which were little more than a mixture of various herbs, roots, and whatever else they could toss in (thus the snake oil).  Back then,......

"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived." - Bernard DeVoto  On National Martini Day, June 19, this quote from historian Bernard DeVoto is particularly apt, describing a concoction that......

Located downtown attached to the Orpheum theater, the Broadway Bar is something of an anachronism. It's been around since 2005, before the classic cocktail boom took hold of the city and because of this - or maybe in spite of it - it's been caught in a sort of boozy time warp......