Shelley Lindgren | Co-Owner and Wine Director, A16 & SPQR
There are few people, if any, more synonymous with San Francisco's wine scene than Shelley Lindgren. The co-owner and wine director of two of the city's most iconic Italian restaurants—A16…
Earthquake Devastates Napa’s Wine Industry
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Napa Valley on Sunday, leaving a significant damage to the wine industry, according to The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Reuters. It was the largest earthquake…
Drink Tank: Cindy Loughridge, Photographer | San Francisco, CA
Welcome to Drink Tank, a week-in-the-life peek of creative drinkers across Instagram. Each week PUNCH follows a photographer, writer, winemaker or bartender from bar to bar to bar.
- story: Punch Staff
- photos: Cindy Loughridge
What Are CA Bartenders Doing About the Drought?
California is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts in its history. Many bars continue to do business as usual, but as the situation worsens a growing number of bartenders…
- story: Caroline Pardilla
- photo: Don DeBold
Martin Cate | Owner, Smuggler’s Cove
"There's really no connection between tiki, rum and the fez," explains Martin Cate of his epic headpiece. "People like tiki and people like secret societies," he says referring to the Shriners,…
The Old-Fashioned Is New Again
The Old-Fashioned is one of America's oldest cocktails, but it's never felt more new. Robert Simonson offers a peek into the drink's past and modern rebirth.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Should Cocktail Programs Figure into Restaurant Ratings?
The San Francisco Chronicle's food and wine editor and restaurant critic Michael Bauer weighs in on the idea of a separate rating system for a restaurant’s bar program. After writing…
Reports of Tiki’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
In all of its unabashed kitsch, it's easy to dismiss tiki as a category of drinks chronically prone to passing fad. Robert Simonson makes a case for the opposite and…
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Daniel Krieger
The Buena Vista Café: America’s Irish Coffee Mecca
At San Francisco's historic Buena Vista Café, the Irish Coffee has become its own American ritual.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photos: Eric Wolfinger
Irish Coffee
First introduced to the United States by way of San Francisco’s Buena Vista Café, the Irish Coffee was invented at the Foynes Airport’s restaurant in 1943.
