Cocktailia

Yesterday I finished giving Cocktailia a much needed facelift. Gone is the stark white design with little to no indication of what’s what or where around the site. I think this new design is quite a bit more…

I attended WordCamp Portland last weekend, a technical “unconference” for WordPress users and developers, and the subject of cocktails came up. It all started when one of the conference organizers mentioned that she holds the number one Google…

I freely admit that I haven’t been doing a very good job keeping this site updated lately. There are a few reasons for this, not the least of which being laziness, being a crap blogger, being busy with other things,…

Cocktailia reader Camille, who writes a food, drink, and entertaining site over at wallflour.com, recently visited Tokyo and stopped by some of their celebrated bars. Of particular interest are two of the bars mentioned in the August Bon…

The folks over at CocktailDB have released Cocktails, a drink database for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application contains 1,500 drink recipes from sources such as The Savoy Cocktail Book, The Joy of Mixology, <a…

San Francisco cocktail week begins tonight, kicking off the festivities with an opening night gala at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room, at the Sir Francis Drake hotel on Union Square. Lots of other great events follow, through Sunday night. …

Today Cocktailia 2.0 launches! We now have a new, magazine-style layout rather than the old blog-type design we were using before. The visual look is much cleaner now, and allows us to showcase recent articles as well as older…

Getting out for a drink usually just means going to one of the neighborhood bars but we’ve recently visited two of the nicer bars in the bay area.

First, Kevin was in town from Portland a couple weeks…

After over a year of driving up to a Russian deli in the Richmond when I needed to restock the Youri supply in my freezer, Beverages and More is finally carrying it, and a few dollars cheaper to…

Sarai and I went to K&L Wines over the weekend to make use of a $50 gift certificate we received for Xmas. We rarely spend over $10 for a single bottle of wine so we went in with the…