As I've mentioned before, I live in the boonies, which is lovely but not exactly hopping with art museums, ethnic cuisine or cool historic bars where you can order a vintage cocktail. So, when I visit ...

Easily overheard in Buffalo over the past six months or so is the question, “Have you been to High Violet?” Behind Buffalo’s most dapper custom-tailored suit shop, BUREAU: you will find HIGH VIOLET.

“No cell phone use inside lounge. Proper attire requested. Please, no baseball hats. Sorry, no reservations. … No O-bombs. No Jager-bombs. No bombs of any kind ...

If you’ve seen fantastical violet cocktails popping up on Instagram and wondered what lashings of food dye were required, the answer is nada. The distinctive hue comes from butterfly pea blossoms, ...

Around four o’clock one morning in mid-June, Toby Maloney and his business partner Jason Cott were frantically unpacking liquor in preparation for the opening of their new Wicker Park bar, the Violet ...

In the recipe headnote for the drink Eeyore’s Requiem — a complex, nuanced Negroni riff — Toby Maloney, head mixologist and driving force behind Chicago cocktail bar The Violet Hour, asks, “Is it so ...