In the two-plus decades that I have been behind bars, I’ve noticed some fads when it comes to what my brethren drink while we work. I’m not talking about sipping cocktails or some rare craft beer; I’m ...

Sometimes great ideas are too early for their time. Arrested Development, one of the greatest TV comedies ever, debuted in 2003 and was cancelled in 2006. Leonard Cohen wrote the song “Hallelujah” in ...

Carthusian monks have been making Chartreuse since 1605 — and at a Colorado Bartending Guild mixer at Colt & Gray on Wednesday, it quickly became clear that the French liquor has lost none of its ...

What’s the worst letter you’ve ever received from an order of monks? I’ll go first. So when the Carthusian monks—the order of silent French monks who make Chartreuse, coaxing dark herbal magic from ...

Check out Where NOLA Eats’ picks for food and drinks events around New Orleans. WEDNESDAY (Feb. 20) Chartreuse paired dinner — Josephine Estelle at the Ace hotel (600 Carondelet St.) serves a ...

We’re uncorking our latest column, Bottoms Up — a weekly guide to everything brewed, bottled, blended, barrel-aged and generally booze-soaked. Up first, the strange-but-true story of chartreuse, an ...

Bartenders and lovers of Chartreuse are experiencing a hard lesson in supply and demand with the recent shortage of the distinct green liqueur. Chartreuse is from the French Alps and has been made by ...

MANY WAYS: Self-described “liquor nerds,” Audrey and Bill Kopp, share several ways to enjoy Chartreuse. Photo by Hannah Ramirez Once one ventures beyond the “base liquors” used to create cocktails — ...

Chartreuse, the eerie green/yellow hue, suggests moss, algae and eels. Not that moss, algae and eels are squeezed into chartreuse, the eerie green/yellow liqueur. The 130 alpine herbs captured in the ...

Reservations! What a concept. And bread while you wait too. Are owner Sandy Levine and chef Doug Hewitt stuck somewhere back a decade ago, before “wait 1.5 hours at the bar” and “starve before your ...

The menu spoke to me. one look at the website, one extra furtive glance online at that menu in the midst of the workday, and I was primed. This, I was sure, was going to be a transformative experience ...