In cocktails, you could say that there’s two types of creativity, the easy kind and the hard kind, and the reason the Debbie, Don’t cocktail is so impressive—to say nothing of being brilliant, ...

Watch a bartender whip up a tantalizing cocktail in just a few minutes — viciously shaking shakers, delicately adding garnishes — and you may just think it’s magic. But mastering the craft of mixing ...

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 ...

The Bronx Cocktail. God, where do you even start? People used to be conflicted about the Bronx cocktail, but they’re not anymore. I’ll tell you why in a minute, but first, a bit of context: From its ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: parties, parties, and more parties. If you’re hosting a seasonal gathering this year, you want to do everything you can to make ...

After testing for taste, speed, and ease of use, we recommend the Bartesian and Bev. While neither replaces the quality cocktail an adequate bartender produces, both make good enough cocktails faster ...

Many of the drinks that are still beloved in bars today are cocktails from the Prohibition Era, when bars went underground ...

In the canon of classic cocktails, you’ll find plenty of well-known drinks, like the Negroni or the Old Fashioned. But you’ll ...

WHY DO cocktails always seem to taste better at bars? It begins with the proper operation of a cocktail shaker. While all-spirits drinks like Martinis are stirred to preserve their clarity, daiquiris, ...

To explain: Novelty is the dragon we bartenders are always chasing. New cocktails, new seasonal lists, new trends, it never stops—when you’re creating a drink, you need to do something that you ...