Credit for creating the Americano is given to Gaspare Campari. The Milan, Italy bar owner first served this bitter sweet cocktail some time around 1861. During the American prohibition on alcohol, Americans would flock to …

The Mojito was once the drink of the Cuban peasant class. Although it did find favor with some classic American entertainment luminaries like Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole, the Mojito was largely unknown outside …

Cafe Rouge has achieved noble status in the northern California East Bay city of Berkeley. Primarily a French/Californian restaurant known for its’ house aged meats, Cafe Rouge has also built its’ reputation with a great …

This is the signature cocktail from Globe, a restaurant and bar living in the shadow of the Transamerica building in San Francisco’s financial district. Like The Pony Up cocktail, it is another clever combination of …

by Roberta (Bob) Simpson,  special to MixPourSip.com
The question I have to ask is this: what do you expect from a bar or from a bartender? If all you look for in a bartender is someone …

This guest cigar review comes from Brooks Whittington over at smokingstogie.com.
Oliva Master Blends 1 (Torpedo)- Sadly, this cigar has more tattoos then me.
The Oliva Master Blends 1 was one of those cigars that I searched …

My single favorite food flavor comes from slow braised dried Mexican chili sauces. I learned to love this flavor while eating at a local burrito place in the small west Los Angeles town named Culver …

Experimentation is the foundation and the fun that being a good bartender is built on. John Pringle of Globe in San Francisco agrees. “I’ve been playing with St. Germain quite a bit lately,” he says. …

At MixPourSip.com, we are fans of updated classics. Dresses designed upon a foundation of classic styling updated with modern fabrics and attitudes give a girl a timeless-yet-now kind of look. In that spirit, Anthropologie.com offers …

Released in May of 1965, Maiden Voyage was Herbie Hancock’s fifth release as a band leader and followed the musically innovative and commercially successful Empyrean Isles. While considered to …