The Best Ingredients for Your Home Bar: Spirits, Bitters, and Mixers: bonappetit.com

Bon Appetit gives a shout out to two of our favorite bitters. Dr. E’s Boker’s and Scrappy’s Celery. Continue

Thanks again for thinking of us, Bon Appetit!

Home Bar Ingredients

BTW BA, we love the Scrappy’s Celery in gin, too! (A few dashes are also great in soda water)

Via The Best Ingredients for Your Home Bar: Spirits, Bitters, and Mixers: BA Daily: bonappetit.com.

Beyond Green Beer: 5 Great Chartreuse Cocktails for St. Patrick’s Day | Serious Eats

Just say no to green beer… Continue

Something else green and boozy.

Chartreuse

Today’s drinks feature the lushly herbal Chartreuse in all its emerald glory

We agree with Dietsch. There’s a lot more to drink on St. Pat’s day than green beer. We enjoy the herbal deliciousness that is Chartreuse, but if you’re looking to go a bit more traditional, check out this great sister article about drinks with Irish Whiskey.

via Beyond Green Beer: 5 Great Chartreuse Cocktails for St. Patrick's Day | Serious Eats: Drinks.

Add Bitters To Your Soda! 12 Combos We Love | Serious Eats

Yet another way to experiment with bitters. Mix them with soda! Continue

Coke & Angostura

One of our favorite beverages around the Serious Eats office is bitters and soda. We’ve got a good dozen types of bitters in the Serious Eats liquor shelves—cranberry! Peychaud’s! black walnut!—and just a few dashes can turn plain ol’ soda water into something much more exciting.

Love this idea and look forward to trying through the combinations (and coming up with more!)

via Add Bitters To Your Soda! 12 Combos We Love | Serious Eats: Drinks.

Closed Feb 8th & 9th!

We’re closed Friday & Saturday due to the blizzard. Continue

Due to Winter Storm Nemo coming to town, we’re going to close the store Friday and Saturday for the safety of our crew and customers.

Hope you get a chance to relax at home, stay warm and sip on a cocktail. (I’m going to enjoy a bottled, carbonated Negroni I’ve been working on.)

Be safe out there!

Cheers,

Adam

P.S. That also means any web orders submitted won’t be picked and packed until early next week. Sorry for the delay!

Last Day to Order - Christmas 2012

Here’s a handy chart to know when to order to have your goodies by Christmas Eve. Continue

Christmas ordering deadlines

The holidays are upon us! Please refer to the dates below to determine when you need to place your order to receive it in time for the holidays. Christmas deliveries are based on shipments arriving by Monday, December 24th. Deadlines include the time that it takes us to pack everything up and get it out the door.

Please note, under the “peak-season service guarantees” UPS only guarantees Air Service delivery dates during the holiday season.

When in doubt, send us an email or give us a call at the store @ 617-718-2999, and we can help you choose the service that will get your order to you on time.

Delivery Service Last Day to Order
Ground Sat, Dec 15th
3 Day Select Tue, Dec 18th
2 Day Air Wed, Dec 19th
Next Day Air Thu, Dec 20th

Thanks Bon Appetit! - Nick & Nora Glasses and Barker & Mills Cherries

Thanks Bon Appetit for the mention and the great photo! Continue

Bon Appetit Dec12The Nick & Nora glass looks lovely! They’re one of our favorite glasses too. Anything that’s served “up” or in a “martini glass” is extra elegant in a Nick & Nora.

We’re psyched to see that the Barker & Mills Cherries were so well received! (And sorry to run out of them so quickly.)

Ryan pits each cherry by hand, and hand-numbers each jar, so there’s only so many available each year. We’ve already started a waiting list for the ones we’re expecting near the end of 2013, so if you’re interested please contact us and we’ll put some aside for you.

via Manhattan: Recipe: bonappetit.com.

We’re live!

Welcome to our new website! Continue

After over a year of planning and work, our new website is live! (Ain’t it purty?)

I’m going to take a break and imbibe a beverage, but look for some updates pointing out some of the cool stuff we’ve done and some of the folks we can thank for it.

In the meanwhile, poke around and tell us what you think.

2012 Holiday Hours

For the month of December we’re open extended hours for the the holiday season. Continue

Holiday Hours (The month of December)

Monday - Friday: 11-8
Saturday: 11-8
Sunday: 11-6

Holidays and Early Closings:

Date Weekday Description Hours
11/21 Wed Day before Thanksgiving 12-6
11/24 Thu Thanksgiving! CLOSED
11/25 Fri Black Friday 12-7
12/24 Sat Christmas Eve 11-5
12/25 Sun Christmas Day CLOSED
12/26 Mon Day after Christmas CLOSED
12/31 Sat New Year’s Eve 11-5
1/1 Sun New Year’s Day CLOSED