Kara Newman

1 day ago | foodandwine.com | Kara Newman

Credit: Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography / Getty Images Order an Infinite Negroni at St. Bibiana, an Italian restaurant within Hotel Bardo in Savannah, Georgia, and a slim white booklet may arrive alongside your crimson-hued drink. Inside the booklet: a lengthy list of the bottles used to build the drink. As one batch is nearly depleted, another is mixed and added to the previous batch, so it’s ever evolving, not to mention never-ending.

1 week ago | wineenthusiast.com | Kara Newman

Rod, reel and…. rum? For those who enjoy fishing, the summer and fall months ahead bring myriad opportunities to combine the outdoor sport with your favorite drinks. The combination makes sense for obvious reasons. “Both are associated with relaxation,” explains Phillip Dobesh, activities manager at The Ranch at Rock Creek, Montana, which offers an annual “Whiskey and Water” weekend. “In fly-fishing, it’s a time when you can find a flow state, or time seems to sort of stand still.

2 weeks ago | punchdrink.com | Kara Newman

What does it take to run a bar within a space that was never intended to be a bar? This month, Izzy Tulloch and Danielle “D” De Block, formerly of the New York bar Milady’s, are running their makeshift bar, A Pop-Up Called Pancakes, within S&P, a luncheonette from the team behind Court Street Grocers. The venue is a nearly century-old diner in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, a long, narrow space that the new owners, Eric Finkelstein and Matt Ross, left more or less intact.

2 weeks ago | wineenthusiast.com | Kara Newman

A “clean tequila seltzer” created by a registered dietitian. A “feel good” tequila that “causes fewer hangovers” because it’s made with “clean ingredients.” A “healthier” ready-to-drink margarita, made with “additive-free” tequila. These products, which all recently landed on my radar, seem to lean into tequila as a magical wellness elixir. And I’ve had enough. It’s time to stop talking about “clean” tequila. I don’t hear wellness-adjacent claims made about whiskey, Cognac or even mezcal.

3 weeks ago | blog.resy.com | Kara Newman |Ellie Plass |Deanna Ting

Today 2 Close Remove 2 Add Update Close WEST10WEST map West Village Photo courtesy of WEST10WEST The bar section at this moody, dark-academia-style spot has to be our favorite place to sit, preferably sipping on a glass from their wine list that changes weekly. When everything goes right in our lives, you’ll also see us sharing bread and cultured butter, seared octopus, and beet gnocchi with ricotta with someone handsome. Book Now Good Guy's map Lower East Side Good Guy’s is right next door...