Good things in small packages
Good things in small packages
The Lunar New Year has begun, with revelers saying a very relieved goodbye to the Rat – believed by many to be symbolic of the past year’s misfortune – and ushering in the Ox. At The Chronicle, this week marks a change for us as well, as today is our last…
Cooking up the manliest rum-based cocktail
An e-mail sent to a handful of cocktail geeks recently asked a question of earth-shattering importance: “What would you say is the manliest rum-based cocktail?” The Carbonated Piston Slinger sprang to mind almost immediately. It’s a creation of Ted Haigh, a…
Mina’s latest, RN74, a wine bar with fine food
Raj Parr had wanted to open a wine bar since his days as a novice sommelier at Rubicon. In 1997, at the height of dot-com glories, he marveled as savvy barely 21s in T-shirts ordered bottles of Chateau Latour. “There was no pretense about it,” Parr recalls….