Clink glasses with Julie Reiner and David Wondrich at Clover Club.
Every joker with access to a hot plate and a Boston shaker is doing supper clubs these days. But count on Clover Club—a 2009 Eat Out Award winner and perhaps the city’s greatest cocktail bar—to do it right.
What does “doing it right” entail? David Wondrich, for one. The cocktail historian will be on hand during a cocktail hour to talk timeless tipples with CC owner Julie Reiner. Next up is a three-course meal from chef Craig Rivard (rack of lamb, “Statesman Soup” with quail confit), paired with wine. If you didn’t know Clover Club had (a) a chef and (b) a wine list, well, now you know. The cost: a pricey but likely worth-it $135 (plus tax and tip).
Announced today: Tickets to the seminars, hoedowns and demonstrations that make up Lesley Townsend’s bookish booze bacchanal go on sale Monday at 7:33pm. (Are we supposed to know the significance of this hour? Might it have something to do with, hm, the repeal of Prohibition?) The talent is multiple—all the usual suspects that you’d want to see (Philip Ward, Julie Reiner, David Wondrich, etc., etc.) will be participating in the weekend fest. Check out the bill of fare here. Save the dates (October 3 and 4)—because New York really does deserve its own version of Tales of the Cocktail. And commuting to the Astor Center is much easier than flying down to NOLA.
Feed favorite David Wondrich (Photo: Daniel Krieger)
Wondering where your favorite NYC barkeeps are this week? They’re staggering about the French Quarter sporting Panamanian straw hats. Annual New Orleans booze congress Tales of the Cocktail is fully underway, with seminars, parties and dinners happening all over the city. After battling Internet outages and a steady stream of intoxicants, we finally have a chance to bring you up to speed. Find some highlights (Trends! Geeks! David Wondrich!) after the jump. Read more »
Posted in Eat Out by Eat Out on March 4th, 2009 at 11:34 am
David Wondrich giddily shakes up a mess o' rum cocktails.
Aficionados are in for a treat this spring, when Mount Gay 1703 will pour forth upon Gotham. This luxurious spirit, which hails from Barbados and blends rums aged from 10 to 30 years, was the star attraction at an event held at Keens Steakhouse amid oak-paneled walls and a ceiling lined with rows of ancient clay pipes. Read more »
Posted in Eat Out by Eat Out on February 18th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
A sampling of bitters. (Photo: Michael Anstendig)
Cocktail bitters, unsung heroes of the libation world, got their props yesterday at Julie Reiner’s Clover Club in Brooklyn. Artisanal drink jockeys like Jim Meehan and Don Lee (PDT), Alex Day and Joaquin Simo (Death & Company) and even the honorable king of cocktails, Dale DeGroff, were on hand for an educational immersion into this macerated realm. Read more »
The tipular swells were out in full force last night at an event announcing a partnership between Saveur magazine and New Orleans mixology congress, Tales of the Cocktail. An artfully bearded David Wondrich cohosted the fete, which went down in Eben Freeman’s subterranean lounge at Tailor. Read more »
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