Food and Drink Features
Charles Martin
Four coconuts, one large butcher’s knife, a copious spread of juices, fruit, garnishes and bottles of alcohol were the makings of what would be the best night of research ever.
Thursday 23 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: cocktails
Tiki time
Tropical cocktails often go heavy with juices and garnishes, but can still pack a deceptive punch.
Food and Drink Features
Charles Martin
Four coconuts, one large butcher’s knife, a copious spread of juices, fruit, garnishes and bottles of alcohol were the makings of what would be the best night of research ever.
Dr. Strangebrew
It may not replace that perfect porter, but beer cocktails abound in town. You just need to stop being pretentious.
Food and Drink Features
Charles Martin
After 13 years as a legal member of the church of good beer, dumping a bunch of mixers and spirits into a perfectly crafted brew seems blasphemous.
Skinnier cocktails
Bars around the metro are starting to offer skinnier versions of sugary favorites, but some cocktails have always been skinny.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
You know “skinny” is a popular trend when Cheesecake Factory adds menu items under that category. The chain best known for massive portions and the signature dessert in its name added low(er) calorie cocktails at the beginning of 2011, most notably a skinny Mojito and a margarita, classic drinks with a week’s supply of sugar in the recipe.
Space heater for your heart
Forget starting a fire! These holiday treats will have you warmed up in no time.
Food and Drink Features
Luke Atkinson
Some holiday sippers locate the nearest bottle of whiskey and mix up a makeshift hot-chocolate treat, but that isn’t what Christmas is about.
Mock mixes, authentic fun
Ring in the new year hangover-free.
Food and Drink Features
Heide Brandes
One New Year’s Eve, Patrick Allmond and a dozen celebrators rented a van to party-hop all over Oklahoma City.
Thunder-drunk
Liquid cooling
A cool cocktail in hand is the only way to beat the summer heat.
Food and Drink Features
Nicole Hill
When it comes to beating the heat, there are two strategies: Stay inside with the cold clutches of the lonely air conditioner, or counteract summer’s scorched-earth policy alongside your fellow sufferers by refreshing your taste buds with some cool cocktails.
Drink it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Sidle up to The Art Bar for some cocktails — well, an art exhibition inspired by cocktails, at In Your Eye Studio & Gallery, 3005-A Paseo, through July 28. But attend the free reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday so you can purchase libations while appreciating the works by Gayle L. Curry, Lynn Cummings, Michelle Metcalfe, Regina Murphy and above Nicki Albright. Call 525-2161 or visit inyoureyegallery.com.
Friday, ongoing
Like it dirty?
Shaken or stirred, a martini can be enjoyed in more ways than one.
