March 5, don’t you know, is National Absinthe Day. Well, that’s the word on the street — the Wormwood Society, devoted to all things absinthe-y, doesn’t say a thing about it. Rimbaud loved it, so that ...

Walking up the stairs to the bar inside the new Gaspar Brasserie feels a little like stepping through a portal into early 20th century France. If the polish of the brass and newness of the surfaces ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. The Death in the Afternoon is a two-ingredient cocktail made with absinthe and brut ...

Few cities do spooky like New Orleans. Mix Anne Rice’s vampires, aboveground burials and a tradition of jazz funerals and you get a city undaunted by death. Mix gin, vermouth and absinthe and you get ...

I walked through the open doors from Bourbon Street into the Old Absinthe House on a Friday afternoon as people were revving up, knocking back beers and plugging away at the jukebox. But in the corner ...

A swing and a miss. When we showed up at Sugar House on a Wednesday, it was closed. Had I looked at either of the Sugar House websites — www.sugarhouselounge.com, which describes a cool lounge for ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up and ...

And that dash of anise-forward absinthe “is definitely New Orleanian.” “The absinthe creates a flavor profile cocktail lovers expect from many of our city’s drinks,” Bodenheimer added, “just like the ...