With 200-plus Oktoberfest celebrations expected to take place around the country, and more than 6 million beer drinkers descending on Munich for the 16-day traditional festival, this is definitely a month for beer promotions. Okay, your...

Three new books by RESTAURANT HOSPITALITY contributing editor Robert Plotkin can help you boost your beverage business. All are published by Bar-Media, www.barmedia.com...

BEER TASTE, CHAMPAGNE BUDGET: Special dinners at Oscar's in the Waldorf-Astoria raise beer drinking to a new level. Anyone who assumes beer drinkers aren't a refined lot has never attended a beer aficionado's dinner at Oscar's, an American...

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CLEAR & COOL: Superpremium vodkas are ideal in an up martini. Born from water, air, earth and fire, no purer representation of time and place exists than the quintessential eau-de-vie, vodka. Its transparency and brilliant character are an...

HOT AND COOL: Reinterpret Bloody Marys with the hot pepper touch. JUICED UP: El Torito Restaurants' Mexico City menu promo offered the Agua de Granada (sweetened lime and pomegranate juices), Granada Margaritas, and the Key Lime Colada. We...

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