Category Archives: VVC cocktail lounge
VVC Cocktail Lounge: Jen’s Lychee Cranberry Sunrise
Today’s cocktail lounge submission comes from my (Jess’) sister, Jen, and this is as much of an introduction as we’re going to get. Since we’re both devotees of the lychee martini, I’ve been holding out for her secret ratios. And since her boyfriend is a photographer, I figured we were all in luck. This final […]
VVC Cocktail Lounge: Abracadabra!
Today, “The Rum Diary” hits theaters, and I have a deep and complicated love of Hunter S. Thompson (we had our differences, but I think we would have gotten along in spite of them), so I wanted to mark the occasion with a rum cocktail. Perhaps a room-temperature bottle of cheap, dark rum would be […]
VVC MOCKtail Lounge
Wanna feel like a fancy pants but choose not to drink? That’s cool, that’s all healthy and stuff. Mocktails are awesome because they’re more affordable than cocktails, they have less calories and are usually less sugary, and they don’t give you that headachy feeling the morning after a raucous night (unless that Nojito was really […]
The VVC Cocktail Lounge: Hot & Spiked
Yes, that’s an alcoholic beverage in my ultra-cheesy chipped mug. So it’s not very classy, but my name’s spelled right, and who doesn’t love rainbows? My chipped mug has stood by me for the past 30 years, and I always turn to it in times of need. Alas, I am ill. Not horribly so, but […]
The VVC Cocktail Lounge: Moscow Mule
Moscow Mules are a refreshing combination of ginger beer, lime juice and crisp vodka that first rose to popularity in 1950s Los Angeles and Manhattan. I’m sure more than one mug has been spotted at a bar on Mad Men. It’s that cool. Since it’s not every bar that happens to have ginger beer stocked, […]
VVC Cocktail Lounge Field Trip: San Francisco
What goes better with a trip to San Francisco than a solo dining experience at Millennium? The answer is: nothing. And what goes better with a solo dining experience at Millennium than a fancy twelve dollar cocktail? Again, nothing. Out of the six featured cocktails on the list, I had to try […]
