A sold-out Chef’s to Watch Awards Dinner and fundraiser was held out Harrah’s New Orleans Aug. 24. More than 400 foodies and supporters of the restaurant and hospitality industry attended.
Post Tales of the Cocktail Spirit Awards, revelers 2nd lined from Harrah's to Latrobe's in the Quarter. The parade was in mourning of the death of three cocktails that should have died a long time ago - for instance 'The Red Headed Slut.' The Bartenders Breakfast was sponsored by Plymouth Gin and if this is what bartenders do for breakfast, why do they bother to go out? The mayhem spiraled into varying degrees of insanity until about 4am...
Tales of the Cocktail 3rd Annual Spirit Awards honors the best and brightest of those cocktail slingers, bars and - hell - anybody that advances the craft of the cocktail by their efforts worldwide.
In the world that is Tales of the Cocktail, the Seven Deadly Sins - Lust, Envy, Greed, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Anger - are not reasons for guilt and penitence...they're seven good reasons to party like evil rock stars!
Tales of the Cocktail presents "l'heure verte", "The Green Hour". Cocktail revelers met the "Green Fairy" Thursday afternoon when distillers presented their interpretations of that venerable Emerald Lady, absinthe. Many times vilified but oft kept in the closet by savvy European women everywhere, your Mama says, "Drink your absinthe!"
Tales of the Cocktail stikes again! The Hendrick's Gin Party...The Enchanted Portal to the Peculiar. What can we say? The name says it all but Incredible! Awesome! Enchanting! Transporting! Otherworldly! Hott! Sexy! and downright un#@%$!believable bloody good fun and fabulously fantastic will nick your senses away from the real world...also covers it.