cocktails

Millesime – $1 Oysters at Happy Hour

March 18, 2012

Why not, indeed!  Not much makes me happier or more excited than $1 oysters.  So when I saw this sign outside of Millesime – the bar and restaurant inside the Carlton Hotel  – I knew my next Happy Hour (read: the very next day) would be filled with those $1 Oysters.

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And Even Better To Be Green and Frosty

August 18, 2011

When you take the candied limes and turn them into  Frozen Candied-Lime Margaritas! We enjoyed these too much – and drank them too quickly to get a photo – but I wanted to share the recipe nonetheless.  Cause I *know* you all made those Candied Limes I talked about and are looking for things to […]

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Againn – Gastropub (?) in D.C.

July 10, 2011

We lucked out and found that one of the restaurants we were most interested in trying – Againn, a decidedly contemporary, upscale, high-brow-cocktail version of a Gastropub –  was literally right around the corner from our hotel.  So this was our later-side Saturday night dinner pick….the last chance we’d have to sit back and relax […]

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