Cocktails Recipes
Jamie Boudreau explains how to avoid unwanted explosions, offers up a cocktail recipe.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 11, 2010 at 01:14PM
In case you missed it, my coworker-in-crime Chris Werner recently talked to Jamie Boudreau about making ginger beer. Check out Boudreau’s recipe and advice on how to avoid unwanted ginger-brew explosions, then make the Cablegram: a simple mixtures of whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup, and ginger beer.
Cablegram Cocktail
Recipe courtesy Jamie Boudreau
Ingredients
2oz rye or bourbon
¾oz lemon juice
¼oz simple syrup
ginger beer
Technique
Shake and strain first two ingredients into an iced Collins glass, top with ginger beer.
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The once-a-year wine classes are not to be missed, but one is already sold out. Get your tickets now.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 11, 2010 at 12:51PM
Taste Washington is just three weeks away and as I did last year, I’m going to heartily recommend you sign up for one of the seminars on Saturday.
Sunday’s Grand Tasting is great, but the seminars are fascinating and intimate, and will focus your tasting skills before you begin the sip-and-spit marathon at Qwest field. The food pairing seminar with Tom Douglas has already sold out, sadness, but there are a couple of others that sound good.
I like, in particular, the concept of Icons of Tomorrow: the Proving Grounds. The class explores which wines will be: “the next Cayuse Vineyards, Col Solare, Leonetti Cellar, or Woodward Canyon.” Grand Reve, a very fruitful collaboration of talented Washington growers and blenders (with a tasting room in Kirkland), will be there. And Efeste will be on hand to rock everyone out with its Big Papa Cab, as will Gramercy Cellars and its syrah knockout, the 2007 John Lewis.
Icons of Tomorrow is $40 and runs from 1:45 to 3pm on Saturday, March 27. All seminars are held at The Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Sign up here.
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Happy Hour
Croque monsieur sliders. What else is there to say, really?
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 11, 2010 at 10:32AM
Headed out to Redmond yesterday and what did I happen upon while lost amongst the strip malls of Redmond Way? Jerzy’s Wine Bar and Bistro, a little wine-bar-in-a-house nestled improbably, adorably between shopping centers. Spotting it, I did a dangerous left turn into a nearby parking lot and crept over to investigate.
As I skulked around the red shingled house to a sweet little patio area near the entrance, a goated man pulled up on a bicycle and we got to chatting. There was a language barrier, but I gathered he was an employee, and soon enough the owner came out and joined us. I was soon invited inside, where I found a cozy little barroom with bottle-lined shelves and curlicue ironwork and one blue wall and a lot of other randomness that all somehow added up to something good, to somewhere you’d want to spend a little time.
Happy hour at Jerzy’s runs Monday through Saturday from 5 to 7pm (the bar is closed Sundays). There are $5 reds and white, five different types of bruschetta, croque monsieur sliders, and various “tapas” (olives and whatnot). Jerzy’s also has a very nice lunch deal: soup or salad, entrée, and a glass of wine for $8.
My Redmond go-to happy hour has always been the Matador, but now I think I might be hitting up Jerzy’s. Croque monsieur sliders? Come on now. Wonder what other HH gems are hiding out there in Microsoft land….
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Happy Hour
Five Points announces new HH, Owl and Thistle’s old HH is still good stuff.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 10, 2010 at 10:01AM
The Five Points Cafe recently announced a new happy hour. It’s 4 to 6pm on weekdays and begins Friday, March 12. Deals include a cheeseburger and fries for $2.50, $3 deep-fried Beecher’s cheese curds (hmmm, at that price, I wonder how they compare to Steelhead’s), and calamari for $3.50. Well drinks are also $3.50 while domestic draft beers are $2 and microbrews cost $3.
Another good dive-bar happy hour is that at Owl N Thistle. I’d always thought of the out-of-the-way basement bar on Post Ave as a sleepy lunch spot, but it comes alive at HH. Bud and Bud light are $2 a pint, micros and well drinks are $3. You can get fries or soup for $2.25, a burger, beef stew, hummus platter, or spinach and artichoke dip for $2.95. Fish and chips are $3.50.
But what really recommends Owl N Thistle is that the staff is generally welcoming to everyone and the customers tend to be pretty mellow. I’ve been in dive bars in Seattle where juiced-up bartenders wielded insane accusations at customers for no reason, and others where customers drank too much and put the staff in the unfortunate position of giving them the boot. I’ve also been at dive bars where the bartender would only serve his friends and/or was obnoxious to everyone whose clothing didn’t reflect die-hard death metal fandom. There seems to be a minimum of such bad energy at ONT, and the service is always friendly, casual, and slightly inattentive. (This isn’t Canlis after all, no one needs to put your napkin on your lap.) That’s the way it should be at a proper dive, and the reason I suggest it to you.
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Pucker up for vodka-based specials at the SLU hotel bar.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 09, 2010 at 02:16PM
We started this SP season off with Tom Douglas’ Beer Blast but if vodka cocktails are more your thing, check out the green drink specials at the bar the Pan Pacific Hotel.
There is the Go Green: Cucumber Dry Soda, pear vodka, and Sour Apple Pucker schnapps, and then there is the Irish Pride: pear vodka, triple sec, and Cucumber Dry.
Hmm. Which of these would I choose? I guess the second one, because it doesn’t have Sour Apple Pucker schnapps in it, which sounds like it tastes like a Jolly Rancher. I don’t really drink vodkas though, unless I’m in suburban Connecticut, where my parents live, and where the Grey Goose flows like it’s Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow. I do like an infusion now and again though, why not? And Cucumber Dry is good, though I prefer it with gin. I’m digressing: if these sort of drinks are up your alley, lucky you. The Pan Pacific will be serving them on Wednesday, March 17 for $10 a pop.
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