A toast to 2019: Ms. Barstool’s top 5 East Bay cocktails
Nosh’s drink writer looks back on the five cocktails that tickled her tastebuds this year, plus one noteworthy non-alcoholic drink that she calls “comfort food in a mug.”
Nosh’s drink writer looks back on the five cocktails that tickled her tastebuds this year, plus one noteworthy non-alcoholic drink that she calls “comfort food in a mug.”
Sipping the inventive seasonal drinks at this Park St. neighborhood restaurant takes you on an island getaway close to home.
Cocktail writer Risa Nye finds refreshing summertime-inspired drinks at the popular Berkeley burger chain.
In our latest installment from our cocktail columnist, Ms. Barstool, we visit the bar at Limewood, the new restaurant in the Claremont Hotel.
When visiting the new bar at Grand Lake Kitchen on a warm afternoon, the clear choice of a cocktail was poured out of the slushy machine.
The book, “There Was A Fire Here,” about the tragedy and how Nye and her family coped with their losses, has been described as a “searing memoir.”
Drexl is a comfortable cave of a bar in Uptown that makes top-notch cocktails great for happy hour or late-night libations
Ms. Barstool visits the Gourmet Ghetto restaurant and bar for seasonal cocktails in a garden-like environment.
At cocktail class Ms Barstool learns to ‘spank’ mint to avoid giving drinks a muddy taste, and not to assassinate a daiquiri with strawberries!
Ms Barstool was skeptical, but she now believes carrots in a cocktail can work — and the avocado Daiquiri she had at Oakland Juice & Co. was so good it nearly knocked her off her seat.
This new Berkeley spot offers an abundance of choice when it comes to drinks, food and a good ambiance.
Shakewell is a fairly new addition to Oakland’s Lakeshore district.
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