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Restaurant Greulich, Zurich

May 10, 2012 – 11:58 am | No Comment
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Accidentally falling upon extraordinary restaurants is, for me, a bit like finding money in an old jacket pocket. Unexpected but completely welcomed. Such was the case at Restaurant Greulich, an unassuming yet delicious find tucked …

ABSOLUT London

March 6, 2012 – 5:34 pm | No Comment
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London’s creativity and rich style heritage is celebrated in this recently released, limited edition Absolut bottle. Set against a London backdrop, the design brilliantly features some of the most powerful fashion players over the past …

Liquid Love

February 2, 2012 – 12:48 pm | One Comment
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If this isn’t your first time stumbling across The Urban Grocer, then you’ll know we’ve got it bad for wine labels. Anything from Oz-based Mash makes us swoon, not to mention the creative team of …

Food + Drinks + Music = Awesome Infographic

December 15, 2011 – 11:38 pm | One Comment
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Wine and food. A classic combination. Music and food? Well, while you may love to rev up your favorite beats while in your kitchen, it’s not often that we pair music and food and drinks …

Return of the Living Red

December 12, 2011 – 7:59 pm | One Comment
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Forget the chateaux. Forget the birds. Forget whatever nonsensical French-countryside illustrations you’ve seen on wine labels. And enter Mash. Always creative, never predictable, Mash is one of our favorite creative agencies. Hailing from Oz, their …

Para Mí y Para Ti: Contigo

November 10, 2011 – 4:40 pm | No Comment

“Connection, communication, collaboration, and conviviality.” These are words that sound more like they were spoken at your latest staff meeting, rather than describing a restaurant. But it is how the minds behind San Francisco’s Contigo …

Hello, Winter. Blossa Glögg 2011

November 3, 2011 – 3:35 pm | No Comment

It’s getting cooler over here in the Northwestern hemisphere and so it seems our bellies are turning faithfully to those luxuriant hot cuppas to take off the chill…be it hot cocoa, café mocha, apple cider …

Poteki!! Redefining the Chips Bowl

October 18, 2011 – 4:49 pm | No Comment
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It’s really about time someone reinvented the chip bowl. Chips aren’t going out of style but dumping a mound of them into a steel bowl in the centre of the table seems a little too …

Lovely Labels: TUG’s Top Wine Label Picks

October 14, 2011 – 5:56 pm | No Comment
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Admit it. Sometimes you impulsively buy a wine bottle for the label. And that’s not always a bad thing, especially if that label speaks as much to art and creativity as it does wine. We …

Barley Basher: Cervecería Sagrada

October 4, 2011 – 3:39 pm | No Comment

Beer and professional wrestling: Now there’s a winning combination. No, we’re not talking about Coors Lite and Hulk Hogan. This is a much more sophisticated and exotic kind of pairing. This is Cervecería Sagrada, and …