Drink for Jason – Great Times for a Great Guy
Tagged: cocktails, drinkforjason, oak and alley, Warsaw
Oak and Alley, a cocktail bar located in my hometown of Warsaw, is my bar. When I say “my,” I don’t mean that I own it – that honor belongs to someone else much smarter than me. It is, however, the place I head to when I go out for drinks, the place where I feel most at home away from home, the bar where the guys welcome me with a hardy and pronounced “Tom!” whenever I walk in and the place where I have “my” seat. It’s the place where...
The Most Important Thing I Learned At My First Tequila/Mezcal Tasting And Food Pairing
Tagged: cocktail bar, cocktails, food, mezcal, oak and alley, tequila, Warsaw
Oak & Alley, Warsaw’s latest and greatest drinking establishment, recently hosted an event that I never thought would occur in our small Midwestern town. They had a tequila tasting on Tuesday and Tommy went (the allure of alliteration was totally worth referring to myself in the third person). Throw in some mezcal and food pairings and all of a sudden, Warsaw is throwing some pretty cool shindigs. I learned a lot that night. For...
An Introduction to Warsaw’s Oak and Alley
Tagged: cocktail bar, cocktails, indiana, oak and alley, Warsaw
When Oak and Alley Public House opened up in my hometown of Warsaw, Indiana, I couldn’t have been giddier. I had long fancied that our small but growing Midwest community needed a place that you could go to immerse yourself not only in the enjoyment of drinking as a social activity but to witness the art of making cocktails. As with many of my other “pie in the sky” ideas, this one was snatched up by someone headier...