Apr 24, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Food, Sustainability, Travel
Chef Gabriela Cámara, whose revolutionary restaurant Contramar in Mexico City introduced the concept of sustainable seafood to the commercial culinary scene, is heading back to Mexico City to work as an advisor in the Lopez Obredor administration. Contramar is going...
Apr 5, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Events, Mezcal: Mexico in a Bottle, Tastings, Uncategorized
We’re just three weeks away from Mexico in a Bottle Chicago and we’ve put together a whole bunch of great programming, both in and out of the event. Chicago Rum Fest is Saturday, April 27th at Logan Square Auditorium and we are very happy to be working...
Mar 20, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Mezcals, Tastings
I had a chance to meet Ivan Vasquez, owner of Madre! at the recent Culver City screening of Agave: The Spirit of a Nation and arrange time for a visit while I was in Southern California for the week. It’s located in Torrance, or in LA speak, the South Bay. My friend...
Mar 14, 2019 | Agave, Bars and Restaurants, Brands, Events, Mezcal: Mexico in a Bottle
We are not going to bury the lede – it did not rain! What a lovely day it ended up being for our second Mexico in a Bottle event at San Diego’s Bread and Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan. More than 300 people packed the house, tasting 150 plus expressions of...
Feb 7, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Brands, Mezcals
There is irony here. For eons in Mexico at bars and restaurants, most carried house mezcales, note lower case and not Mezcales. Someone usually had a connection through family or friends and offered them in glass or plastic jugs behind the bar. My early days in Oaxaca...
Jan 28, 2019 | Agave, Bars and Restaurants, Events, Tastings
Just back from the San Antonio Cocktail Conferences (my recap is here) where I was able to attend some terrific seminars helmed by a few leaders in the industry, who happen to be women. I say it like that because I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable with how...
