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Valentine’s Day Drinking, Seattle Style

A Tom Waits cover band, specialty cocktails, and sparkling suggestions for tonight’s toast.

By Jessica Voelker February 14, 2011

Good champagne, bad marriage.

Sad bastards descend upon Bottleneck tonight to drown their sorrows with Tom Waits cover band Dust and Bourbon. The performance begins at 9pm.

Other goings-down:

The Pink Door has a special Valentine’s cocktail: Love Is Bittersweet. It’s freshly pressed blood oranges, Campari, and prosecco in a champagne flute—which sounds delicious. It also sounds a lot like The Walrus and the Carpenter’s version of Le Perroquet, but we’re sure nobody will sue. (Not that it matters since cocktail recipes are not protected under law anyway). That’s $10.

If you’re headed for dinner at Tulio, bring your sweet tooth. The restaurant is featuring three special Valentine’s Day cocktails. The first is homemade cherry brandy liqueur (what, no Heering?), white creme de cacao, and a brandied cherry. The second is Grand Marnier, Godiva Chocolate Liqueur, and candied Sicilian orange. The third combines Nocello, dark creme de cacao, and walnut brittle.

Finally, if you need a last-minute idea for a bottle of champagne, may I suggest the most romantic champagne in the world, Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin Rose? So what if Kelsey Grammar and his ex-Real Housewife of Beverly Hills were drinking it in that wrist-slitty segment when she accompanies him to the Tony Awards. It’s still romantic. (And don’t look at me like that, I know you watched it.)

I’d point smaller budgets to Northwest bottles from Argyle, Pacific Rim’s White Flowers (great with raw oysters), and Mountain Dome. And then there’s that ole Alsatian work-hourse Lucien Albrecht. Always tasty.

Okay then, Happy Valentines Day! Take us out of here, Waits.

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