SF Cocktail Week

ByThe Barkeep

golden-gate-bridge-picture.jpgCocktail week is back again with an opening gala at Le Colonial tonight and after party at 15 Romolo. Tomorrow, Harry Denton’s Starlight Room hosts a US Bartender’s Guild National Competition with a host of celebrity judges, after party at Cantina. Events continue throughout the week, the highlight being Thursday’s Bar School, a series of classes taught t by SF’s best bartenders in their native environment. Saturday, I am looking forward to the North Beach Historical Bar Tour hosted by Tablehopper.com. Sunday, Alembic will be serving recipes from the 1930s Savoy Cocktail Book.

Cocktail Week concludes on Monday with a reception at absinthe where guests can run elbows with the SF Cocktail glitterati.

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