The gimlet, as Terry Lennox tells Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” is “half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.” Now that’s a helluva ...

A guy walks into his regular bar, a beer-and-shot kind of bar, at half past 6 on a Saturday. He walks in wanting a beer, but the woman behind the bar is a new girl, and her unfamiliar face combines ...

The story of the gimlet, one of our favorite cocktails, goes back more than 150 years. A man named Lachlan Rose created and patented a product named Rose’s lime juice. Rose, who was in the British ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. For me, the gimlet is a tale of two extremes. In addition to ordering it at establishments that are savvy ...

The gimlet, or something resembling it, dates to the turn of the nineteenth century, and having watched many of its contemporaries—old-fashioneds, classic daiquiris—become bartenders’ darlings of late ...

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is arguably Los Angeles' greatest (anti)hero. The hardboiled, hard-drinking private eye is the quintessential detective of American noir, world-weary and wandering ...

This month’s Remix is best accessorized with a shoulder-clawing parrot, or maybe just a striped T-shirt: Some say the Gimlet was named for British Royal Navy surgeon Sir Thomas Gimlette, who ...

A spicy, lime-filled, ice-cold cocktail is perfect for the dog days of summer. The sweltering heat of August cries out for a little chili pepper to help us sweat and cool down while also demanding ...

August was always a time for gimlets. For five summers, I would arrive to the midcoast of Maine to visit my then-boyfriend's parents for a week of eating lobster, reading on the porch, and stuffing ...

Cocktails offer a wide array of flavours. Everyone has their favourite, and their choices are often predicated by the season. In cooler months, people prefer drinks crafted with spirits like bourbon ...