Tequila cocktails, fried chicken, live music

Lauren Clark is the publisher of drinkboston.com (bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown), a freelance drinks journalist and a former bartender and brewer.
Ho-hum. Just another slow night in NOLA last night:

Cocktails by the best people in the bar biz amidst an exhibit of Mardi Gras art and artifacts, plus live jazz, at the Presbytere. Tequila [...]

Fun

Lauren Clark is the publisher of drinkboston.com (bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown), a freelance drinks journalist and a former bartender and brewer.

I come to Tales every year for one reason: it’s fun. In fact, so far this year it has been heavenly. Take this exact moment: I’m in the media suite (yes, we have [...]

Paying the piper: your hangover and you

Lauren Clark is the publisher of drinkboston.com (Bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown), a freelance drinks journalist and a former bartender and brewer.
So, you failed to heed the advice in How to drink all day at Tales without getting (too) drunk? Time to break out the hangover remedies, my friend.
What richer subject is there for [...]

Jerry’s Kids and the Three Amigos

Lauren Clark is a freelance drinks journalist in Boston. She chronicles the city’s drinking landscape at Drink Boston.
Anyone who thinks media coverage of bartenders and cocktails is part of some new trend did not attend this morning’s panel Jerry’s Kids: The Life, Drinks and Legacy of Professor Jerry Thomas. (Check out a blow-by-blow post on [...]

I drank what?!

Lauren Clark is a freelance drinks journalist in Boston. She chronicles the city’s drinking landscape at Drink Boston.
I was a responsible adult yesterday until about 4:30. I abstained from joining my fellow Yankees in NOLA for lunch at the Napoleon House, because I had to prepare for my panel, How to Get Your City, Bar, [...]

Getting Your Booze Into the News

This is the first post from Lauren Clark, a freelance drinks journalist in Boston. She chronicles the city’s drinking landscape at Drink Boston.
For those of us who write about and promote drinks and mixology, Tales of the Cocktail is a magical time when we are surrounded by thousands of kindred spirits who want [...]