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Good Food Awards
Congrats to Tender Greens, The Linkery and Ballast Point Brewing Co. — all three were just announced as finalists in this year's Good Food Awards, which recognizes the best craft food producers in the country. The winners will be announced at an event in San Francisco in January. [EaterWire}
The Eater Pappy Locator
The Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery's bourbon — often called Pappy Van Winkle or Pappy — is a cultural phenomenon. Bourbon connoisseurs have long held it up as one of the world's best, while limited production has ensured that it is also one of the world's most sought after bourbons. And now just so happens to be Pappy season, the time of year when Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery sends out shipments of its cult-like bourbon across the country. Here's the Eater Pappy Locator, with two San Diego spots on the list!
Hangover Power Hour
Eric Johnson, Noble Experiment's general manager will soon be spending some of his time behind the bar at Normal Heights' new Bells & Whistles-designed Sycamore Den, where he's developing the cocktail program. Where does he go to cure his hangover blues? Convoy's Yakitori Yakyudori for meat on sticks and steaming bowls of ramen. They're open til 12 a.m., if you need a before-bed snack too. [EaterWire]
Jayne's Gastropub Aims to Cure What Ails You
[All photos via Jayne's Gastropub]
Ah, the fine line between liquid medicine and booze. Zwack, a Hungarian liqueur, is digestif made with a healthy heap of 40 different herbs and spices — there's even a first aid symbol on the bottle.
At Jayne's Gastropub, bartender Sarah Ellis doctors up a gin swizzle(lime, gin, soda) with a dose of Zwack and some housemade Eucomint tea syrup. Served in a collins glass over crushed ice, it's called the Ex-Zwack-tly.
Ellis also had your health in mind when naming her favorite hangover cure, what she calls "the breakfast cocktail of the future", a Ramos Gin Fizz that delivers protein(egg whites), calcium(cream) and vitamin C(citrus).
Jayne's Gastropub [Official Site]
Meet Bartender Sarah Ellis [SDCityBeat]
Hangover Power Hour
The Patio on Lamont's Shawn Barker also endorses a hearty meal after a night of indulgence. He recommends the Bluegrass Brunch at North Park's Urban Solace on Sundays from 10 a.m to 2:30 p.m.. Chow down egg benedicts, beef cheek hash or butter-pecan French toast while a bluegrass band plays on the patio, just hopefully not too loudly. [EaterWire]
A Drink to Take the Edge Off; Or Try In-N-Out
Noble Experiment's Anthony Schmidt, two-time champ of El Dorado's Bartender Battle, advises that a good cocktail with help take the edge off a nasty hangover — something with ginger, fizzy water and healthy dose of bitters to settle the stomach.
Which might be why he put the Tin Pan Alley on the menu at the East Village speakeasy. The drink, combining scotch, lime, orange bitters, ginger and soda water just sounds therapeutic.
If that fails, Schmidt's hangover usually craves a run to In-N-Out; we're sure he's not the only one.
— Noble Experiment [Official Site]
— Sophisticated Imbiber: Anthony Schmidt [Urbanist]
Hangover Power Hour
Erick Castro, cocktail craftman behind the soon-to-launch Polite Provisions, says that his recommendation for a wicked hangover is a one-two punch of pho and Vietnamese coffee. Get a restorative bowl of beef noodle soup and strong, condensed milk-sweetened coffee at Mira Mesa's Pho Cow Cali Express . [EaterWire]