Previously in my Milan Cocktail Notes series, we experienced Mag café, Backdoor 43 and FARMILY botanical liqueur. [November 2017] – Located in the Porta Venezia neighborhood, Bar Barba is one of the newest to the Mag group. Here, the space had…
MILAN: Navigli nights continued
Previously on my Milan Cocktail Notes: We arrived at the quirky Mag Café located on the grand canal of Milan’s Navigli neighborhood. Scanning the bottles displayed around the bar, I had spotted a bottle of FARMILY botanical spirit. [November 2017] – I…
FARMILY: a small batch botanical spirit
As mentioned in my MILAN: Navigli Nights blog posts. A non-gin, non-vodka, non-tequila, and non-rum small-batch liqueur for Italy’s modern cocktail scene. [Milan, November 2017] – FARMILY is a botanical spirit created by Flavio Angiolillo, Marco Russo, and team; renowned…
MILAN: Navigli nights and Mag Café
[November 2017] – My first night in Milan brought me directly to the Navigli neighborhood; known for the bars and nightlife along the big canal. Or at least that’s what I remembered from the time when I was studying here…
REDISCOVERING MILAN: Three days of cocktails & art
Links to all MILAN posts at the bottom. [13 December 2017] – It had been ten years since I last visited Milan, and I know a lot had changed. Including new neighborhoods that apparently popped up – some as a…
Vermouth & Soda Aperitivo Cocktail
[Rome 2017] – My hunt for modern Italian cocktail culture took me outside of Rome’s city center to the Pigneto neighborhood. Once a rough working-class neighborhood, Pigneto has welcomed young tattooed individuals bringing in new locales along the area’s main…