Best Sips

Lambrusco

Here in the winter months, especially at holiday time, I can’t think of a more festive wine.

The Würz That Can Happen

Originally deriving from Tramin, in northern Italy, Gewürz in German, means “spice,” so Gewürztraminer translates to “that spicy grape from Tramin.”

The Green Fairy

When water is added, the clear absinthe turns a cloudy, opal green—this is known as the “absinthe louche,” or releasing “the green fairy.”

Dynaco

The food menu at Dynaco makes short work for the indecisive. The list is monosyllabic in its entirety: Cake.

Eternally Friday Night

If homes have hearts—kitchens, per the idiom—then the pulse at Frog hammers out from the pool table.