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Restaurants - Charleston, SC
BOWEN’S ISLAND
www.bowensislandrestaurant.com
1870 Bowens Island Road, Charleston, SC 29412 (view map)
T: 843.795.2757
Roasted oysters, cold beer. It's a real South Carolina experience and the only place like it I've ever encountered.
Charleston Area
Seafood
232 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401 (view map)
T: 843.805.5900 (make a reservation)
For the seafood. I've never seen such consistent quality in my life, and Mike Lata is the king of seafood in Charleston, in my opinion.
Downtown
Seafood
GLASS ONION
For fries with béarnaise and well, anything on the menu.
Charleston
Southern / Soul Food
76 Queen Street, Charleston, SC 29401 (view map)
T: 843.577.2500 (make a reservation)
For the beef rinds and all things brunch.
Charleston
Southern
2 Unity Alley, Charleston, SC 29401 (view map)
T: 843.577.0025 (make a reservation)
Charleston
Contemporary American
MONZA
For the pizza and the butter bean salad.
Downtown
Pizza
TACO BOY
For guacamole and frozen screwdrivers.
Multiple Locations
Mobile Taco Truck
TRATTORIA LUCCA
For pasta, and anything.
Downtown
Italian
WILD FLOUR PASTRY
For the sticky buns.
Charleston
American
Cocktails - Charleston, SC
CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
For beer.
Charleston
American / Bar
232 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401 (view map)
T: 843.805.5900 (make a reservation)
I would start with a Negroni at FIG, because the bar is comfortable, the bartenders are knowledgeable, and because a Negroni is the perfect start to a long night of eating and drinking. Bartender Ryan Casey is worth visiting.
Downtown
Seafood
Coffee - Charleston, SC
HOPE AND UNION COFFEE COMPANY
For coffee.
Downtown
Coffee / Tea
Restaurants - Louisville, KY
BLUE DOG BAKERY AND CAFE
Louisville is home to, no lie, some of the best bread in America. Blue Dog Bakery - Kit and Bobby, the owners, make phenomenal breads, and their cafe is my favorite place to eat in the city. I LOVE that place. It exudes their passion and their hard work. A must visit.
Crescent Hill
American Cafe / Bakery
GARAGE BAR
A pizza/oyster/country ham joint.
East Market / NULU
American
Cocktails - Louisville, KY
BOURBONS BISTRO
They have great selections.
Clifton
Southern
OLD SEELBACH BAR
500 South Fourth Street, Louisville, KY 40202
T: 502.585.3200
Serious history at the Seelbach Bar.
Downtown Louisville
Hotel Bar
Louisville gave birth to some of the best cocktails in the world: The Old Fashioned, The Seelbach Cocktail and the Pendennis Cocktail.
PROOF ON MAIN
Bartender: JENNIFER PITTMAN
Jennifer Pittman and the bar staff at Proof on Main are doing some of the best cocktails in Louisville.
Louisville
Contemporary American / Gastro Pub
URBAN BOURBON TRAIL
You need to visit the spots on the "Urban Bourbon Trail."
Multiple Bars
Bourbon
Cocktails - Boston, MA
CITIZEN PUBLIC HOUSE AND OYSTER BAR
Bartender: COREY BUNNEWITH
Fenway
American
Cocktails - Chicago, IL
AVIARY
953-955 W. Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607 (view map)
Well, I'm blown away by what I've seen/read/heard about Aviary in Chicago.
Fulton Market
Cocktail Lounge
SABLE KITCHEN AND BAR
Bartender: MIKE RYAN AND FREDDY SARKIS
505 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (view map)
T: 312.755.9704 (make a reservation)
River North
American
Cocktails - New Orleans, LA
www.arnaudsrestaurant.com/french-75
813 Rue Bienville, New Orleans, LA 70112 (view map)
T: 504.523.5433
French Quarter
French /Creole/ Classic
Cocktails - New York, NY
Williamsburg
Seafood / Wine Bar / New Orleans
PEELS
Bartender: YANA VOLFSON
NoHo / East Village
American / Southern
Cocktails - San Francisco, CA
Nine times out of ten I want to drink something fresh, simple, approachable, so I really like what Thad Vogler does at Bar Agricole in San Francisco.
SOMA
American
Cocktails - Tucson, AZ
Ciaran Wiese is also a friend, and a madman, and an uber talented bartender.
Downtown Tucson
Bar
Cocktails - London, UK
ARTESIAN AT THE LANGHAM
Bartender: SIMONE CAPORALE
www.artesian-bar.co.uk/artesian.html
1c Portland Place, Regent Street, London W1B 1JA, UK (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.7636.1000
Have your mind blown by the cocktails.
Marylebone
Cocktail Lounge
THE CONNAUGHT
www.the-connaught.co.uk/restaurants_bars.aspx
Carlos Place, London, W1K 2AL, UK (view map)
T: +44/(0)20 7499 7070
The cocktails are heartbreakingly delicious and beautiful.
Mayfair
Hotel Bar
26 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.3301.8069 (make a reservation)
Have a proper Bicyclette at St. John.
City & East
British / English
COCKTAIL CLUB
www.thecocktailclubcharleston.com
479 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403 (view map)
I would end the night at the newly opened Cocktail Club. They did a great job with the space and the patio is a welcome piece of calm on the busiest stretch of nightlife in Charleston. Drinking a Carpano Antica Formula over ice, or one of their house specialty cocktails - the selection is vast, and I haven't had the chance to make my way through it yet!
Charleston
Cocktail Lounge
Drinks - Bourbon
OLD FITZGERALD
USA / Kentucky
Liquor / Whiskey / Bourbon
OLD GRAND DAD
Buy from these retailers
USA / Kentucky
Liquor / Whiskey / Bourbon
For bourbon, I would skip the high end stuff, because you can find a lot of those brands in bigger markets now (although a trip to Kentucky is a good excuse to stock up on Pappy); I would grab a bottle of some gritty, good stuff: Old Fitzgerald and Old Grand Dad.
Drinks - Aperatifs & Digestifs
AVERNA
Italy
Liquor / Digestif / Amaro
CAMPARI
Italy
Liquor / Aperitif
COCCHI APERITIVO AMERICANO
Italy
Liquor / Aperitif
LILLET BLANC
France
Liquor / Aperitif
Drinks - Sodas & Syrups
BLENHEIM’S GINGER ALE
It’s based here in South Carolina. Their stuff is insane good.
USA / South Carolina
Soda / Ginger Ale
FEVER TREE
Fever Tree, out of England, was my favorite tonic, but it was hard to track down in a lot of markets.
England
Soda / Mixers
Tyler Gray is doing some cool things with his new maple syrups.
Maple Syrup
MORRIS KITCHEN
For their ginger syrup.
USA / Brooklyn
Ginger Syrup
I don't know the guy, but I love what he is doing, and identify with him. My old friends in Louisville are using his stuff at their new project, Garage Bar, a pizza/oyster/country ham joint.
USA / Brooklyn
Soda / Syrup
SMALL HAND FOODS
Jennifer Colliau has certainly served as an inspiration for me.
USA / San Francisco
Cocktail Ingredients / Syrups
Resources - Books
MUD PUDDLE BOOKS
Mud Puddle Books has done a great job with re-issuing some classic cocktail books, but many of them are too esoteric for my tastes.
Cocktail Recipes
SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK
Buy on: Amazon.com
I love the Savoy Cocktail Book.
Cocktail Recipes
Resources - Magazines
CLASS MAGAZINE
I read Class Magazine online, because I can't afford a subscription.
Magazine
ESQUIRE
I can always count on David Wondrich to be right on the money in his Esquire articles.
Magazine / Website
IMBIBE
Imbibe is a great magazine and certainly has their finger on the pulse of all imbibeable liquids - coffee, beer, spirits, etc.
Magazine / Website
EATER
I obsess over Eater, and visit specific restaurant and bar websites they highlight.
Website
Resources - Websites
Cocktails - New Haven, CT
116 CROWN
They use Jack Rudy in their “Jack Rudy Margarita.”
New Haven
Tapas Bar / Cocktail Lounge
Who
Mixologist and FIG’s bar manager Brooks Reitz is the creator of Jack Rudy Cocktail Company, named in honor of his great-grandfather.
Why
Making handmade, small batch tonic, using all natural ingredients and raw quinine syrup (not tonic water), and since it isn't carbonated, it lasts longer.
Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. | Recommendations
July 21, 2011
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