WTF Cocktails

A brief update…. The experimental cocktail series entitled “This Might Work” was a successful push along the borders of the Cocktail Front during the Summer of 2014 in New Orleans. Over the...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/this-might-work-07-01-14-part-1-cool-blue-reason/

A quick recap… The experimental cocktail series entitled “This Might Work” was a successful push along the borders of the Cocktail Front during the Summer of 2014 in New Orleans. Over the c...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/this-might-work-06-24-14-taste-the-bright-lights/

For the next installment of “This Might Work” 06.16.14… I had a handful of cool cocktails on the docket but with unexpected legal constrictions, I can only say that that the term “sonicat...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/this-might-work-06-16-14-cast-your-net-wide-uncle-bobbos-medicine/

The experimental cocktail series entitled “This Might Work” was a successful push along the borders of the Cocktail Front during the Summer of 2014 in New Orleans. Over the course of three mo...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/this-might-work-06-10-14/

My goal for the coming Fall 2014 is to keep a short but concise running tab on all of the crazy shit I’m working on Root Squared. First up – my answer to Generation X’s favorite beverage fr...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/anatomy-of-a-cocktail-menu-mallrat/

Summer has finally landed in NOLA and it is time for a proper Tequila Reposado cocktail. If you haven’t noticed in your local market, bell peppers are everywhere. Red, yellow, purple, green –...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/anatomy-of-a-cocktail-menu-pretty-petty-thieves/

My cocktail menu for Root Squared was a daunting task. The reputation of Chef Philip Lopez and his culinary achievements in New Orleans in less than two years brought a good amount of attention t...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/anatomy-of-a-cocktail-menu-roll-in-the-hay/

Tuesday night – April 8th – I joined the festivities behind the bar at the American Culinary Federation’s “2014 Best Chef of Louisiana”. The event is a fundraiser-focused smorgasbord of...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/a-night-of-top-nola-chefs-hennessey-hibiscus-earl-grey/

Here in Louisiana – Strawberries are frakin’ everywhere. And they are so damn good in the South! It is hard to pass up a pound of strawberries for $2.79 at the local Rouse’s. And I love mak...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/ambitious-outsider-the-no-heat-strawberry-ginger-shrub/

It was a tough bartending run on Shelter Island this past summer. Per my previous blogs regarding “My Own Private Cocktail”, the rose fell off the bloom about two weeks into my tenure at La M...

https://wtfcocktails.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/summer-2013-part-1-shelter-island/