The Lush

NoPa neighbor Ivan Hopkinson (a co-founder of Brewtruc) was first trying to open the Fulton Street Brewpub in the former Fulton Street Bar space at Masonic. Next, he was planning to open his brewery and restaurant BARREL HEAD BREWHOUSE in the former Auto City Repair and Body Works at 834…

On Saturday December 8th, GOLDEN GATE WINE CELLARS will be hosting a holiday wine tasting at a secret location somewhere near Stonestown. There will be more than 14 California wineries represented (with the owners/winemakers present!), many of them smaller and hard to find in stores. Plus, there will be…

Prohibition ended on December 5th, 1933, and it’s always a good idea to toast to the end of our country’s driest years on Repeal Day. Make your way to CANTINA on Wednesday December 5th for a Repeal Day Costume Ball. Come dressed as your favorite cocktail (and by…

Good news for fans of Jason “Buffalo” LoGrasso’s delicious cocktails: he is now heading up the cocktail program at ~RICH TABLE~. He most recently led the fab program at Cotogna and Quince, and has also been behind the stick at Beretta, Alembic, Bourbon & Branch, and Rickhouse. Look for…

PRESS CLUB’s wine director Mauro Cirilli is starting Wine Wednesdays on November 28, a monthly wine tasting event. The first one is a dinner that will lead guests through holiday pairing techniques (paired with four courses of food). 6pm-8pm, $75, contact Teresa Breaux. 20 Yerba Buena Lane at Market.…

Well, the Olympics have been over for a while, baseball season was awesome and is also quite over, and election season finally passed, too, so now what are you to do with your competitive streak? There’s always football, sure, but even better is the BARBACK GAMES from Fernet-Branca. The…

The Bay Area’s own ST. GEORGE SPIRITS is celebrating its thirtieth year of distilling artisanal spirits for your imbibing pleasure. Raise a glass to three fabulous decades at the anniversary party, called 30 Years Under the Influence, on Friday November 30th. The event will take place at the distillery…

For the past few months, I’ve been tracking the closure of DECO LOUNGE in the Tenderloin, and now Mission Mission reveals the new owners are the same ones who own Bender’s Bar in the Mission. Stand by for more details—and it looks like the bar’s history…

The French liqueur company Cointreau is taking over a Potrero Hill warehouse for a week and has transformed it into the specially designed La Maison Cointreau. The event features a variety of rooms, each designed to explore a particular facet of Cointreau’s past and present (including a cocktail lab,…

The images and stories coming in from the East Coast have been haunting, to say the least. Many West Coast residents have found themselves at a loss for how to help from so far away. A bunch of folks in our local bar community have an event planned to help…