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Talkin’’bout the Midnight Rambler, Dallas’ ambitious new cocktail arrival
Everything is illuminated: The new gem in Dallas’ cocktail scene. With a month gone by since the jewel that is Midnight Rambler beamed into downtown, it’s hard to believe it was barely a year ago that...
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Charlie Papaceno leaves the Windmill Lounge with plans to open a new bar
Esteemed barman Charlie Papaceno: No longer tilting at the Windmill. Charlie Papaceno has officially left the venerable Windmill Lounge to launch a new project, marking an end to one of the...
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Coming soon: Five pop-up bars all under one roof — and it’s all for charity
Bolsa’s Kyle Hilla, left, is all smiles as the pop-up bar “draft” gets underway in preparation for Sunday’s annual fundraiser. As Ryan Fussell of Fort Worth’s Bird Café put it, it was a veritable...
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2014: It was the best of times, it was the thirst of times
An unforgettable cocktail launched an unforgettable year: Martensen’s Apple Boilermaker. It was the best of times, it was the thirst of times, and 2014’s constantly unfolding craft-cocktail...
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Dallas’ craft-cocktail community rallies around ailing elder statesman; you...
Charlie Papaceno, who left the Windmill to start a new bar, faces a new challenge. They call Charlie Papaceno the godfather of Dallas’ craft-cocktail scene. Ten years ago, he and then-wife Louise Owens...
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Bolting Bolsa: Stalwart bartender Kyle Hilla departs for parts north
Seven-year itch? The longtime face of Bolsa’s bar program is headed to NorthPark. Bartenders are a mobile bunch, so it’s rare that a name becomes as synonymous as a place as Kyle Hilla’s did at Bolsa....
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The Singapore Sling: Two Dallas bars give the much-maligned drink a classic...
Over the years, the Singapore Sling came to be known as a tropical drink like this one from Dallas barman Lucky Campbell. Its origins are nowhere as sweet — but arguably just as delicious. The...
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Parliament, in Uptown, breaks new ground with ‘Arbor Day Eve’ party
Bartenders Jesse Powell and Jermey Elliott weren’t so much in the weeds as they were the trees at Parliament’s Arbor Day Eve party Thursday night. It’s probably fair to say that no other craft-cocktail...
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Sugar and spice and everything nice: 2018’s best in DFW cocktails
Some of the year’s best, clockwise from upper left: Cody Riggs’ Bitter Marriage at The Mitchell; Griffin Keys’ Let Me Clarify at Boulevardier; Matt Konrad’s Witch Hunter at Thompson’s Bookstore; and...
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Dallas’ hotel bars continue craft-cocktail legacy with appeal to locals and...
Dallas’ Midnight Rambler, in the lower level of downtown’s Joule Hotel, was named one of the country’s four best hotel bars for the second year in a row. Chad Solomon and Christy Pope, owners of...
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