For some, surviving a Seattle winter means heading to Washington’s snow-covered slopes. Others jet off to someplace full of blue skies and sunshine. At our downtown Seattle restaurant, we think the best fortitude for winter comes with spirits. So, we asked our bar team to assemble five essential winter cocktails, including a punch for your…

With the bounty of summer slowly fading in the Pacific Northwest, Heartwood Provisions bartender Michael Cadden is preserving up a storm. With cherries on our heels, and peaches and nectarines just coming to an end, he hustles to turn stone fruit to syrups and jams that mix nicely into cocktails and mocktails and shrubs. “Preserving…

Recently, beverage director Amanda Reed was thinking spring drinking and Beaujolais—the light, red-fruited, gamay from France—came to mind. If the flavors of fresh strawberries and earthy mushrooms work so beautifully in those wines, she imagined they’d work well in a cocktail too. So, she added some grassy rhum agricole and savory fennel and a fresh…