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01/05/104:15 pm

If you’d like to keep the holiday party rolling, get yourself to Rye on January 11 for a bartending contest featuring 10 local mixologists duking it out for the title of champion. The chosen spirit is Combier triple sec and the event begins at 7 p.m.. RSVP to greg@ryesf.com or call 415-786-7803.

With people like Momfuku's David Chang in town promoting his book and doing 7x7 panel discussions, all the talk in the food world has been about the NYC-SF rivalry in the food world. But it’s not only in the kitchen that the two coasts have their differences. Bartenders in New York and San Francisco have long had a rivalry, though it tends to be less contentious than the chefs.

10/16/073:52 pm

Sweet Talk

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Using their old-fashioned wiles, liqueurs are seducing the new guard of bartenders.

Using their old-fashioned wiles, liqueurs are seducing the new guard of bartenders.When a customer at the restaurant Nopa brought in some lovely, red-stemmed mint grown organically in a nearby community garden, there wasn’t enough of it for the kitchen to feature it in a dish on the menu. But bartender Neyah White, a spirits obsessive, had an idea for how to put it to good use. He set the mint to soak, with some organic cane sugar, in Square One organic vodka, which gave him a homemade version of the liqueur known as crème de menthe.