Barfly wins “best column” in California!
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
If you’re a Manhattan or Negroni drinker, you don’t need to be told that the vermouth used in either should be just as good as the…
“Can you put the debate on?” asked someone clearly clueless as to how bars function. Want to see a fight? Mix booze and politics. Every bartender…
“You guys know what you should do?” asked the man standing two people back, wedged in sideways. He didn’t even know where or how to stand…
To say that Kendric Vineyards is off the beaten track is a gross understatement. It’s maybe 2 miles west of Highway 101, but that too is…
It was awkward from the get-go. Both women sat staring straight ahead with their hands clasped in their laps. Were they sisters? Or were they friends?…
The stage of seduction was set, as it so often is, with both soft lighting and soft music. Wine was flowing, cocktails were being had and…
It rained the other day, and if the smell of the woods after the first rain can be called petrichor, the smell of the freeway after…
“Why didn’t you bring me any sugar?” asked the woman sitting by herself at the end of the bar. I scanned her place setting: appetizer plate,…
“I should write a book,” said the woman unbidden by anyone. In fact, it was such a non sequitur that two people turned away from her…
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” once opined William Shakespeare. But would it taste…