If you spend enough time around Campari, the iconic Amaro that everyone I talk to knows, you eventually realize something important: the Negroni isn’t the destination—it’s a “gateway drug.” A “Beyond the Usual Suspects: Campari Cocktails Worth Your Time”
On December 31, 2025, actor, author, and all-around aperitivo evangelist Stanley Tucci (one of my favorite actors of all time) shared a holiday cocktail that immediately caught my attention: the “Manhattan? Boulevardier? #5 – Fanciulli Manhattan with Stanley Tucci”
One of the quiet joys of traveling with a Negroni obsession is seeing what happens when you stop ordering from a menu and start a conversation with the bar. At “Negroni # 109 “Marin’s Negroni Sour”, BKLNY, Curacao”
Why Double Double? Because the very accomplished, and very interesting, bartender Laura Dubiosso made me two of my favorite cocktails in one evening. If you weren’t around in the ’50s, “Bar Franco Montclair Negroni # 108 Boulevardier # 4 – A Double Feature – Double Header”
Our visit to Untouchable was long overdue. Opened by our friends Yukie and Tom Schmitz some months ago, you may know them through their other bar and restaurant and music “Negroni # 107 Japan meets Italy in Newburgh at Untouchable Bar and Art and Music Venue”
In beautiful Scottsdale, AZ for a business conferences, Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort, and after a day of sessions was able to enjoy the lounge with many business friends and associates. “Negroni #106 “Negroni de Bourdain” Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort”
Are you scared, concerned, excited, and/or profoundly moved by AI? I am all of the above. Yet I use it every day in almost every aspect of my life. However, “Playing with AI – AI Is Smarter Than Me, but Because of You and Me. The Negroni Test!”
Via Carota—the wonderfully excellent, wildly popular restaurant that’s famously hard to get into—has seven distinctive Negronis on its menu and a bottled version to can find in many stores and “Not a Negroni but Very Italian – Via Carota Martini Italiano”
We, Diana, Nell, Pierce and I were in Brooklyn for a concert of one of our favorite artists of all time “Air” — the French music duo from Versailles, whose “Negroni #105 Smole and Mirrors – Clover Club”
I’ve already written about more than 100 Negroni variations. You’d think I’d be done by now—that I’d have exhausted every possible combination of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth. But here’s “The Next 100 Negronis (and a Few Boulevardiers Along the Way)”