Lustau

7.45pm After a frozen coffee pick-me-up at Café du Monde, I learn that’s it’s (allegedly) National Daiquiri Day, so I make my way to the Ace for a Bacardi toast. I end up eating steak skewers in the corner by myself (daiquiri in hand) while befriending a sweaty chef and charging my phone. I make one more stop – and sip one more frozen cocktail – before calling it a night. It is only the first day, after all. … [Read more...] about The rum (and vodka) diary: how I spent 7 days at a cocktail festival in New Orleans

But it was only the following night that I really understood what flamenco could feel like — and caught a glimpse of how it’s been performed for centuries. At tabancos, old taverns unique to Jerez, sherry is poured straight from the barrel and, at some, your running tab is written directly onto the bar with chalk. At night, flamenco takes center stage. … [Read more...] about Cádiz, an Underrated Corner of Spain