When the tried and true is new again

Bang! Bang! Bang! The sudden noise startled all of us. Especially since we weren’t due to open for 20 more minutes. The man peeking through the…

With weather like this, it’s time to get creative with your cocktails

Is it the winter of our discontent? Or the springtime of our loving? That all depends on whether you subscribe to William Shakespeare’s take, or Led…

The Bartender Method isn’t just for bars

I was at the giant home repair store for no other reason than it was convenient. I am quite the regular at my local hardware store…

Being polite and being a pushover are not the same

I sat on my bicycle at the top of the zigzagging trail, pondering the differences between being “laid off,” and being “on vacation.” My final deduction…

Two legacy families team up to make Marin County cabernet sauvignon

Herb Rowland, 71, owner/operator (along with his wife Debbie) of Pacheco Ranch and Vineyards in Novato, tells a story about how he recently read in a…

Feeling the love for Valentine’s Day again

It certainly wasn’t a midsummer night’s dream. Firstly, it wasn’t mid-summer, it was mid-winter, and it wasn’t a dream, it was real. Only now, a year…

Lowering the Bar with the Barfly, Hanson’s “Inked” cocktail kit video

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Democracy is both messy and beautiful

For more years than I care to count I have worked nights. Those are typically the best shifts to work in the restaurant/bar business. And I…

Marin’s Tyler Florence weighs in on restaraunt industry, cocktails

As we head back into restaurant reopening and the slow march back to normalcy, it is important to consider what parts of that normalcy we might…

The most beautiful things in life are often quite fragile

It had to be a couple of years ago. It certainly was more than one. I know that because I was standing behind the bar and…