Lead · Bottle of the Day
Oslavje
Radikon · Friuli, Italy
Skin-contact reference. Four weeks on skins, aged in botti. Argues the whole orange category by itself.
More bottles →Filed tonight
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The Pour · Filed 5:00pm
The Pour is open. What are you drinking?
One bottle worth buying. One cocktail worth building. One bar worth walking to. And a pairing that ties it to what you're already eating.
Cocktail of the Day
Mezcal Negroni
Contemporary
1oz mezcal espadín · 1oz Campari · 1oz sweet vermouth · orange peel
The Negroni bent through Oaxaca. Order it after tacos.
One Bar
Trick Dog
San Francisco, CA
3010 20th St. · est. 2013. Filed nightly by rotating voices; Trick Dog is the anchor of our SF beat.
Read the room →The Pairing Engine
What are you eating?
Every Food Dispatch article surfaces a drink from us. Every dish you name here comes back with a bottle, a cocktail, and a bar nearby. This is the bridge the two papers were built for.
Open the pairing engine →Sample · From The Food Dispatch → carne asada burrito
El Farolito · Mission, SF
Bottle
Rubentis Txakoli
Ameztoi
Cocktail
Mezcal Negroni
Contemporary
Nearby bar
Trick Dog
3010 20th St.
Salt-driven Txakoli cuts through the crema; the mezcal Negroni is the second stop, four blocks up 20th.
The Columnists
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The Sommelier
Refined. Bottles worth buying. Cellar picks worth chasing.
Weekly · Thursday · 25 filed
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Fun and social. Cocktail culture, technique, bar life.
Daily · The Last Pour · 98 filed
The Collector
Rare bottles, cellars, auctions, provenance.
Monthly · First Sunday · 6 filed
The Traveler
Hotel bars, lounges, drinking your way through a city.
Weekly · Sunday · 19 filed
The Host
Dinner parties, pairings at home, entertaining.
Weekly · Friday · 2 filed
Recent Dispatches
From the beat.
San Francisco, CA
The menu is the artifact. The drinks earn it back.
Trick Dog · filed by The Bartender
San Francisco, CA
A dining room disguised as a bar. Or vice versa.
True Laurel · filed by The Traveler
San Francisco, CA
A disco for people who read import labels.
Bar Part Time · filed by The Sommelier
New York, NY
No menu. Tell them what you drink.
Attaboy · filed by The Bartender
Brooklyn, NY
The James Murphy wine bar is the actual wine bar.
The Four Horsemen · filed by The Sommelier
New York, NY
The Ludwig murals. The piano. The martini as it should be.
Bemelmans Bar · filed by The Bartender
The Last Pour · 5:00pm
The evening habit, delivered before dinner.
One bottle. One cocktail. One bar. One pairing. Filed by whichever of the five voices is on tonight. Read it on the walk home from work.
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