Drinks & Dining
The Best Craft Cocktail Bars in Every Major US City
The craft cocktail movement has matured past the point of mixologists in vests and overlong menu descriptions.
2025-01-24
JB
Jordan Blake
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Drinks & Dining
How to Plan a Food Crawl in Any City
A food crawl is the best way to eat in an unfamiliar city, and it beats committing to a single restaurant every time.
2025-01-22
Drinks & Dining
How to Throw a Backyard BBQ That People Remember
A memorable backyard BBQ has almost nothing to do with the grill and everything to do with the setup.
2025-01-19
Drinks & Dining
Why Every Guy Should Know How to Bake Bread
Baking bread is the most fundamental cooking skill a person can have, and it requires four ingredients: flour, water, salt, and yeast.
2025-01-11
Drinks & Dining
How to Make Your Own Hot Sauce in a Weekend
Making hot sauce at home is stupidly easy, deeply satisfying, and produces something infinitely better than the mass-produced stuff taking up space in your fridge door.
2025-01-09
Drinks & Dining
How to Pick a Bottle of Wine as a Gift Without Overthinking It
Buying wine as a gift triggers anxiety that is completely disproportionate to the task.
2025-01-07
Drinks & Dining
How to Read a Menu in French (or at Least Fake It)
A French menu is designed to make you feel either deeply cultured or profoundly lost, and there is very little middle ground.
2025-01-06
Drinks & Dining
The 10 Best Brunch Spots in London
London's brunch scene has evolved far beyond the full English, though a proper fry-up is still sacred.
2024-12-28
Drinks & Dining
The 10 Best Airport Restaurants That Are Actually Good
Airport food has been terrible for so long that we accepted it as inevitable.
2024-12-25
Drinks & Dining
Why the Dive Bar Will Always Beat the Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar charges you seventeen dollars for a drink served in a coupe glass by a bartender wearing suspenders.
2024-12-18
Drinks & Dining
Why You Should Learn to Make One Great Cocktail
Knowing how to make one cocktail well is more impressive than knowing how to make ten cocktails poorly.
2024-12-14
Drinks & Dining
How to Stock Your Pantry Like a Home Cook Who Gets It
A well-stocked pantry means you can make dinner from nothing on any given night.
2024-12-07
Drinks & Dining
The Case for Drinking Less (But Drinking Way Better)
The data on alcohol and health is not ambiguous anymore.
2024-11-30
Drinks & Dining
The Best Ramen in New York, Ranked
Ichiran in Midtown brought the solo dining ramen experience from Fukuoka to Manhattan, complete with individual wooden booths that shield you from other diners and a customization form where you choose noodle firmness, broth richness, spice level, and garlic amount.
2024-11-22
Drinks & Dining
The Penicillin: Why It's Having a Moment
The Penicillin cocktail was invented in 2005 by Sam Ross at Milk and Honey in New York, and it has steadily climbed into the canon of modern classic cocktails.
2024-11-18
Drinks & Dining
The Paloma: Why It's Having a Moment
In Mexico, the Paloma has always outsold the Margarita.
2024-11-16
Culture
Why Black Mirror Still Hits Harder Than Any AI Think Piece
Black Mirror has been predicting the worst version of our technological future since 2011, and the show's track record for accuracy is becoming unsettling.
2024-11-14
Culture
The Best Theater Shows Running in New York Right Now
Broadway continues to evolve beyond the jukebox musical era.
2024-11-10
Culture
The 10 Best Independent Bookstores Worth Visiting
Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, occupies an entire city block and contains over a million books.
2024-11-08
Culture
How Hayao Miyazaki Keeps Making Films That Feel Timeless
Hayao Miyazaki retired, then un-retired, then released The Boy and the Heron at age 82, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
2024-11-06