Comments on: DOTW: Savoy Special #1

by: Anita

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:32:04 +0000

Oh my gosh, Joan — did you guys wait in the hours-long line to get a bottle of the St George absinthe? Brave!

If you want more absinthe recipes, there are a lot floating around the blogosphere at the moment for obvious reasons. Any recipe that calls for pastis or pernod was probably originally meant to use absinthe. I’d suggest the sazerac (http://marriedwithdinner.com/2007/07/06/dotw-sazerac/) as a classic preparation that no absinthe drinker should skip, and the Friday After Five is gorgeous — and Bergamots are in season in California right now: http://marriedwithdinner.com/2007/03/02/dotw-friday-after-five/

But my absolute favorite drink using absinthe right now is the A La Louisiane:
http://marriedwithdinner.com/2007/12/21/dotw-a-la-louisiane/

by: Joan

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:19:53 +0000

We spent Christmas in Alameda (across the bay from you) and went to St.George Spirits out at Hangar One. My sister-in-law, who lives there, was ordering a bottle of absinthe for a birthday present for my son later this month. So, I have been looking around for cocktail recipes using it to send to him. I happened across your recipe by accident since I am also participating in the Dark Days Challenge. Thank you for the great pictures and descriptions.

by: Thomas Crubaugh

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:11:13 +0000

Hi Anita,

Congratulations on winning. You are in good company with Michael Ruhlman and won over other great cocktail bloggers such as CocktailChronicles through which I found you weeks ago. While exploring your site, I was just looking at your pictures on flickr and saw the Becca-cino. I searched your site for it but came up empty. It’s in your Zig-Zag set. What is it? I love the mood your pictures set for the Zig-Zag even the women’s room picture adds to the tone. I want to go there but is that what I need to do to find out what the Becca-cino is?

Keep up the good work, the kudos are well deserved (even if Paul is jealous.)

by: Jay Hepburn

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:38:58 +0000

Damn - I had meant to pop by the Savoy before it closed to have a cocktail or three… I didn’t realise it was closing quite so soon though. See you in 2009 then.

Congrats on the blog award too - much deserved!

by: Tartelette

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:38:11 +0000

Congratulations on winning! I am glad my voted counted!!

by: cookiecrumb

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:49:44 +0000

Hey, when are you going to brag? Jeez!
Congratulations.

by: Kalyn

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:30:24 +0000

Congratulations on the food blog award! I’m so happy you won.

by: dietsch

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:02:01 +0000

You won! Congratulations!

by: ilva

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:00:47 +0000

I’m so happy that you won, it’s nice when quality wins! Congratulations!

by: Natalie - The Liquid Muse

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:29:52 +0000

Hello Anita,
Love your piece here. I went to the savoy this summer - very exciting to visit such a famous bar. Unfortunately, Salim was not there that night.

Anyway, wanted to tell you that you can buy “mixing new orleans” here: thebookmerchant.com

Kind regards,
Natalie (aka: The Liquid Muse)