tequila

  • Fuck It, Make Your Dirty Martini With Tequila

    Fuck It, Make Your Dirty Martini With Tequila

    My relationship with martinis can be traced back to the bar at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, an iconic establishment that’s decorated like a French bordello. Desperate to be perceived as refined, I ordered a dirty martini with my shrimp cocktail and ribeye. Marco — the platonic ideal of an old-school bartender — asked if I…


  • This Classic Margarita Is My Ride or Die Cocktail

    This Classic Margarita Is My Ride or Die Cocktail

    Nine years ago today, my partner and I went on our first date. Of course, I didn’t know it was a date at the time, and neither did he — we were acquainted through music and had played shows together, so when he was passing through the Bay Area (where I was then living) on…