Poll: Do You Drink At Brunch?

From Serious Eats: New York Too early or no? [Photo: Robyn Lee] Many New Yorkers plan their weekends around brunch—and at many restaurants, brunch means cocktails. Some will include a mimosa or two in the price of your pancakes or Eggs Benedict; others will have an extensive cocktail menu just for the midday meal. And we’ve even seen all-you-can-drink brunches… not that the drinks are likely to be much good. Some love to kick off the weekend with a Bloody Mary or two, but for others, a few drinks before the afternoon starts is just too much. How about you? Do you drink at brunch? Take the poll

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Vegan Drinks XXVIII is Thursday, August 26th!

[Drinks for vegans!] Don’t miss the last Vegan Drinks of the super humid months! Show up at 7pm on Thursday, August 26th, order a drink (or two or three) and meet some new friends! As always Vegan Drinks NYC takes place at Angels & Kings Bar in the East Village. The drink specials are CHEAP: $2 off everything until 8pm and then it’s $1 off draft beers and well drinks from 8pm to 9pm. Folks who don’t drink alcohol are also quite welcome, but you do have to be 21 to get in. We’ll turn down the music around 8:15pm and encourage people to promote themselves, their groups and/or causes for 30 seconds. If you represent a veg*n or animal rights group, come prepared with your (very short!) spiel and literature. Do you fancy yourself a decent photographer? Or, do you, at least, own a very nice camera capable of taking very good photos? If so, bring it with you on Thursday. Shoot a bunch of pictures. Upload them to our Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vegandrinks . Check out our map of restaurants near Angels & Kings where you can grab a bite after the event. And if you haven’t already, link up with Vegan Drinks on Facebook and MySpace . Vegan Drinks is held from 7…

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Time for a Drink: the Oaxaca Old Fashioned

From Recipes There are many ways to tinker with classic drinks, but unfortunately not all or even most of these adaptations are good (mango mojito, anyone?). Here’s a relative newcomer that more than makes up for so many lackluster takes on classics: the Oaxaca Old Fashioned . Developed by New York barman Phil Ward a few years back while managing the bar at Death & Company (Ward is now at the agave-oriented Mayahuel ), the Oaxaca Old Fashioned takes one of the central, and, if I may say, greatest drinks in mixology and gives it a south-of-the-border spin. The result is a drink that is simple yet elaborate, with the sparky mellowness of reposado tequila accented by the ethereal smokiness of mezcal, with traces of spice and chocolate dancing around the edges. What with all the recent mezcal discussions that have been taking place here and in the New York Times , the Oaxaca Old Fashioned is a fantastic way to get started at the mezcal well. (One note on ingredients: when the New York Times first ran …

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Time for a Drink: Planter’s Punch

From Recipes Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke ( The Cocktail Chronicles ). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers! Holy smokes, it’s hot out there. With Independence Day behind us and the wide, sun-baked expanse of July and August before us, it’s good to have a few basic drink recipes banked away for those times when you want something cold and refreshing. And when it comes to basic, cold and delightful, few drinks can beat a Planter’s Punch . The Planter’s Punch flowed out of the rum-rich Caribbean well over a century ago, and its origins date back centuries. Originally a simple combination of a full-flavored rum with lime juice, sugar, some form of spice and plenty of ice, the Planter’s Punch morphed over the decades into elaborate concoctions containing pineapple juice, grenadine, several types of rum and so on, and the drink is the common ancestor of all those tiki drinks and punches that are once again in vogue. While messing with original recipes is often disdained in the cocktail world, the Planter’s Punch is the kind of laid-back drink that it’s best not to get too worked up about. Feel free to experiment with the basic recipe (this one is …

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Vegan Drinks is Thursday, June 24

[No, not that kind of vegan drink!! It's just an event to get vegans together at a bar. (Photo by Kevin Prichard on flickr .) ] Welcome summer with us this Thursday evening, June 24, at Vegan Drinks. We celebrated our second birthday last month, and now it’s time for you all to help make sure our terrible twos are a force to be reckoned with. As always, we’ll be at Angels & Kings Bar from 7pm to 9pm. Two-for-one drinks before 8pm, and $3-$4 beers for the whole event. If you have a vegan/animal-related cause/group/event to promote, we’ll turn down the music around 8:15pm and encourage people to promote themselves for 30 seconds. Come prepared with your (very short!) spiel and literature. DJ Lil Ray will be back behind the decks (or laptop, whatever) to make the music happen. Check out our map of restaurants near Angels & Kings where you can grab a bite after the event. And if you haven’t already, link up with Vegan Drinks on Facebook and MySpace . Vegan Drinks is held from 7pm to 9pm at Angels & Kings , 500 East 11th Street (btw Ave A & Ave B), New York, NY 10009.

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Vegan Drinks XXV: We’re Two Years Old! Celebrate Us on Thursday, May 27th!

[Dang! That's one good lookin' logo!] Help us celebrate Vegan Drinks NYC’s 2nd birthday this Thursday, May 27th, from 7pm to 9pm at Angels & Kings Bar . We’ll give away some books, drink some drinks and applaud ourselves (that includes you, Vegan Drinks attendees) for keeping the Vegan Drinks’ dream alive for the last 24 months! The drink specials are CHEAP: 2-for-1, folks! And, the crowd is so fresh and so clean. We’ll turn down the music around 8:15pm and encourage people to promote themselves, their groups and/or causes for 30 seconds. If you represent a veg*n or animal rights group, come prepared with your (very short!) spiel and literature. Check out our map of restaurants near Angels & Kings where you can grab a bite after the event. And if you haven’t already, link up with Vegan Drinks on Facebook and MySpace . Vegan Drinks is held from 7pm to 9pm at Angels & Kings , 500 East 11th Street (btw Ave A & Ave B), New York, NY 10009. [ Comments (1) | Read Comments and Add Your Own ]

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Time for a Drink: The Kangaroo, aka Vodka Martini

From Recipes Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke ( The Cocktail Chronicles ). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers! While compiling the list of “The 25 Most Influential Cocktails of the Past Century,” which I posted about on Wednesday, there was one drink that I thought clearly deserved to be on the list, but which is likely unknown to most contemporary drinkers under its original name: the Kangaroo . The Kangaroo first started cropping up in drink-recipe books and on bar menus sometime around 1950. It was based on vodka, then a relatively new spirit behind American bars; many bartenders, initially uncertain about how to use the new booze, started working with it by simply taking gin-based drinks that were already in circulation and instead making them with vodka (so, for example, the Orange Blossom, made with gin and orange juice, begat the vodka-based Screwdriver). Not surprisingly, somebody, somewhere took what was at that time the most popular gin-based cocktail, the Martini, and tried making it with vodka, dubbing the new mixture the Kangaroo. (Why? Who knows.) The drink shows up by …

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Everything We Wanted to Know About the NYC Veggie Prom And Weren’t Afraid to Ask

The NYC Veggie Prom 2010 is tomorrow night, Friday May 14th at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Doors at 8pm. The event is 21+. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Team SuperVegan put together some questions for event organizers Jessica Mahady, DJ Lil Ray (of Vegan Drinks fame), and Robyn Lazara. SuperVegan: Do people have to dress up fancy? DJ Lil Ray: It’s highly encouraged, but certainly not required. Theme parties are more fun when everyone plays along, but we’re not haters. Jessica Mahady: People are wearing all kinds of things … ’80s prom attire, ’60s vintage … SuperVegan: What kind of music will you be playing? DJLR: We’ve gotten requests for ’80s and ’90s dance music. DJ iLan and I both love all kinds of music, so we’ll probably touch on party classics from a number of eras. We’ll have a little Top 40, probably some Motown, Disco, and Funk … music that makes everyone feel good! SuperVegan: Will there be a prom king and queen? DJLR: Heck yeah! JM: Nominations for prom court closed on Wednesday. All of the nominees will wear a special “Veggie Prom Court” ribbon so everyone knows who they are. Our emcee…

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Time for a Drink: Tequila por mi Amante

From Recipes “Be sure to use strawberries at the peak of ripeness to get the best flavor.” [ Photograph: Robyn Lee ] Fresh strawberries are appearing in markets around the country, and depending on where you live you may already be neck-deep in the lush, red fruit. When local strawberries are at their peak (not quite yet, here in Seattle), one of my favorite drinks to make is a simple preparation called Tequila por mi Amante . Tequila por mi Amante isn’t something you put together to enjoy tonight—rather, it’s an infusion that takes a few minutes of work and a few weeks of waiting, but the payoff is definitely worthwhile. Combining the bright, aromatic sweetness of strawberries with the peppery earthiness of tequila, Tequila por mi Amante tastes like joyous summer. The preparation entered the larger drinks world in 1939, when Charles H. Baker listed the recipe in his Gentleman’s Companion . Be sure to use strawberries at the peak of ripeness to get the best flavor. I usually prepare mine with reposado tequila, simply because I like the way it comes out, but …

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Support Galapagos Animals this Thursday, April 29 at Vegan Drinks!

This Thursday, at Vegan Drinks , we are going to have a special bake sale to benefit Darwin Animal Doctors (formerly named Amigo Fiel before our US incorporation this month), my project to start the first animal hospital in the Galapagos. This is part of World Vegan Bake Sale Week , and the bake sale will take place at Angels and Kings bar from 7pm to 9pm. Our head baker for the event is the amazing Laura Dakin , the vegan chef of Sea Shepherd and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis. There will be everything at this bake sale from cookies to cakes to vegan quiches to vegan pigs in blankets. Right now, the animals of the Galapagos suffer from car accidents, invasive germs, and other problems wrought from urbanization. We’ve started paying a full-time vet to save animals in the Galapagos every day, and he’s handling everything from invasive diseases to animal surgery. But he needs veterinary equipment and additional staff, so every penny made at the bake sale will go directly to helping the animals of Galapagos. Come and stuff

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