A playful, first-person newsletter by a self-described martini enthusiast who ranks and reviews martinis across New York City, aiming to find the best one in Manhattan. It also covers restaurant recommendations for specific occasions and guides to the city's sweet treat and bakery scene.
Website: https://emiliekorm.substack.com
Expedition Society Journal publishes long-form adventure writing on explorers, historical expeditions, and remote places, paired with cocktail recipes and drink history. Its excerpts include a Halloween piece on Caribbean ghost legends, an account of Michael Rockefeller's fatal 1961 New Guinea swim, and a travelogue from Slab City in the California desert.
Boothby is an independent bar and cocktail journalism newsletter covering the Australian and Singapore bar scenes, with bartender profiles, venue reviews, menu news and industry data. Readers get insider reporting on bars, drinks trends and awards such as the Boothby Drink of the Year.
A personal food blog by a home cook covering experiments with ingredients like doubanjiang, kitchen gear reviews such as a replacement scale, and year-end restaurant recommendations from travels. The writing is informal and first-person, mixing recipes, equipment opinions and travel dining notes.
A bar owner shares running numbers and lessons from his Hamburg-style cocktail bar, including weekend day-drinking sales, sales of the Gin Basil Smash, and tests of weekday tasting events. Each issue mixes concrete sales figures with personal reflections on hospitality business.
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