Learn how to simply and easily upgrade your bartending game. I’ve been tending bar for more than 30 years now, everywhere from corner dives with sticky floors to James Beard Award-nominated ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. Gone are the days of the sad mocktail — the cranberry cocktail topped with a bit of ...

A good Manhattan is like a trusted friend at the bar: reliable, refined, and always there when you need a confidence boost. It’s the kind of cocktail that says, “I have a classic sense of style, but I ...

The longer that bars remain partially (or completely) closed, the longer you may feel like exchanging your quarantine bread-making hobby for a decidedly boozier option. You don’t have to throw away ...

If you were to craft a list of the world’s most classic cocktails, the Old Fashioned recipe would undoubtedly sit at the very top. For over 200 years, the whiskey-heavy drink has served as a ...

Kara Newman is a cocktails and spirits writer based in New York. In addition to her writing for Food & Wine, she is the spirits reviewer for Wine Enthusiast and has appeared in publications such as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emily writes about what’s in your glass and why it matters. During a recent trip to London I ended up in a bar with a very limited ...

The Gin-Gin Mule was created as the solution to a problem. Here was the problem: As difficult as it may be for us wizened veterans of the cocktail zeitgeist to understand, the issue, in the year 2000, ...

The story goes like this: The Seelbach is a hotel in Louisville, opened in 1905 by Bavarian immigrant brothers Otto and Louis Seelbach, who had a mind to build a grand, European-style hotel in the ...

Everyone has their favorite drink that they love to pour to unwind after a tough day or to enjoy with friends. Personally, I always used to go for a good gin and tonic. Gin is not for everyone, but if ...