Author Archive for Chris Watkins

3 Days in 3 Minutes: Atlanta Food and Wine Festival 2012

3 Incredible Days in 3 Minutes

With just 2 weeks to go, we thought you might need a little reminder for why you need to purchase your tickets to the 2013 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival before they’re all gone!

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Holiday Cocktail Guide 2012

Tis the season…to be drinking

For most, the holiday season can be placed in one of two categories: pure enjoyment and utter annoyance. Being a Scrooge and coming from the school of thought of the latter, I try to keep some extra holiday cheer on hand to get me through the tough times.

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Experience Lust in Liquid Form with Vixen Vodka

Naughtiness…distilled

Ladies. You’ve had a long week. Non-stop, on the go, hustling and bustling, you’ve accomplished more in one week than most do in a month. In between soccer practice for the kids, cooking gourmet meals for the family, and ruling the boardroom at the company——all while making sure that your make-up is flawless and no hair is out of place, you deserve a reward. You deserve…something special.

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Things May Get Wickedly Naughty This Halloween

This is one Wicked Vixen…

Ok. So you’ve got your Halloween costume all set. Guys, you’ve grown out your beard all month in preparation to be Wolverine…or maybe Alan from The Hangover. Ladies, you’ve gone to great lengths to make a “sexy” version of every profession and monster known to man. You deserve a great Halloween-inspired cocktail. And we’ve got just the trick…or treat using one of our favorite new vodkas, Vixen Vodka. Boo-yah!

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Beer Sage Ale Sharpton Brings You the Inaugural Beast Feast

Unleash your inner drunken neanderthal…

When our go-to beer consigliere Ale Sharpton of Cruisin’ for a Brewsin told us he was curating a one-of-a-kind beer feast, we could barely hold in our excitement. If you know Ale, you know he’s super passionate and knowledgeable about all things beer, so we knew off the rip that the idea would be best described in a word he often holds sacred for his favorite brews…gangsta.

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Angel Brown Touwsma on Cucumber Cocktails, Taste of Atlanta 2013, and On-The-Job Training

Meet Angel Brown Touwsma, the new head honcho over at TofA.

Imagine getting hired for a position in which you only have 3 weeks to learn everything you can and prepare for the one event that defines your job. Talk about pressure. Then talk to the awesome and easy-going Angel Brown Touwsma, the new director for Taste of Atlanta.

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Atlanta’s Culinary Block Party Returns

So this is what Atlanta tastes like…

Atlanta’s premier food experience returns to Midtown in its 11th year with 80+ restaurant tastings, chef demonstrations, and family fun.

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Hit the Links with Caorunn Gin

Blending the past with the now…

Summer may be coming to a close, but there is still time to enjoy uniquely crisp and refreshing cocktails before the onslaught of fall and winter. And what better activity to enjoy the mild weather than on a the golf course. So in conjunction with the world’s premier golf pro’s making their stop in Atlanta to compete for a cool $8M at the PGA TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, we’ll be clueing you in on spirit the Scots make just as well as whisky…gin. It’s high time you get to know Caorunn Gin.

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Gone Fishing: Fifth Group Casts Its Lure

Go ahead…get hooked.

It was only a matter of time before ATL restaurant think tank Fifth Group added delights from the briny deep to its culinary repertoire. With Italian (La Tavola Trattoria), European (Ecco), Mexican (The Original El Taco & Alma Cocina), and Southern (South City Kitchen Vinings & Midtown) offerings already represented, it was a natural progression to develop a concept focused on seafood and global coastal traditions.

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The Speakeasy Cocktail Festival

Atlanta’s first cocktail festival takes center stage…

In a city where beer festivals are weekly and almost every street has their own, I often wondered when it would be time for an event solely focused on cocktails. It’s an easy sell. A Prohibition-era themed cocktail festival in the vein of Tales of the Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail Classic is the stuff dreams are made of for a cocktailphile like myself.

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