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Cocktail San Diego

Polite Provisions Dark Harvest Cocktail

Polite Provisions, the airy San Diego bar from Erick Castro and multi-talented business partner Arsalun Tafazoli (Craft & Commerce, Neighborhood, Noble Experiment and more) in once-sleepy University Heights delivers one of the most complete...
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Bar Crawl Los Angeles

Blogger Bar Hop Careens Through Hollywood, Los Feliz, Pasadena and Downtown on the Trolley of Death

Caroline on Crack founder Caroline Pardilla’s e-mail arrived on December 28, enlisting a crack group of cocktail commandos to join her and “L.A. cocktail ringleader” Aidan Demarest on a bar crawl. It was the...
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Bartender San Francisco

Off Duty Drinking: San Francisco Bartenders

I recently asked eight of San Francisco’s top bartenders one simple question: “Where and what do you like to drink when you’re not at work?” Their responses may surprise you. Brooke Arthur (Prospect) Honestly,...
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Bartender San Francisco

Interview: bartender Erick Castro (Rickhouse)

Riverside County native Erick Castro has achieved acclaim as one of San Francisco’s top bartenders, but his career began at an unlikely but ultimately invaluable venue: a San Diego branch of BJ’s brewhouse. “Working...
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Bar San Francisco

Rickhouse: Yo Ho Ho And a Barrel of…Bourbon

When two trusted mixologists both agree on a bar, there’s little doubt that your next move should be to go there. That’s what happened two weeks ago when Copa d’Oro bartender Vincenzo Marianella and...
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