{"id":669,"date":"2019-05-30T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T01:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2019-05-30T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:31:47","slug":"an-evening-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/an-evening-in-albany\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you been to the Hotsy Totsy?<\/p>\n

Do you drink?<\/p>\n

Shot and a beer? Or something more clever in cocktail form?<\/p>\n

Do you like local memorabilia?<\/p>\n

Are you intrigued yet?<\/p>\n

The HTC has been a staple of the easy bay since 1934.<\/p>\n

Currently owned by Jessica Maria and Michael Valladares<\/span> <\/span><\/span>(since 2008) it’s a lovely combination of dive bar and craft cocktail establishment. More info on the owners here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We have had consistently good cocktails each visit.<\/p>\n

This visit we enjoyed a “Warm Hug” made with Merlet VSOP cognac, pumpkin butter and black walnut. A lovely dessert drink.<\/p>\n

The “Femme Fetale” with Magnus whisky, sour cherry liqueur, LoFi dry vermouth and saffron bitters.<\/p>\n

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All in all a lovely start to the evening which ended with dinner at Zaytoon on Solano Avenue which had their bar program crafted by Jessica Maria as well.<\/p>\n

We ate small plates-style and enjoyed several plates. Handsome was not wowed by the hummus but the rest of the Mazza plate ($12) was balanced, thoughtful and well-crafted.<\/p>\n

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The wine list is compact but selves into broad regions. We enjoyed both Greek and Lebanese wine with our meal (glass avg $12.50)<\/p>\n

The Warak Inab (Lebanese name for the more familiar Turkish dolma) was soft, and fragrant with herbs that made it a lovely contrast to the baba ghanouj and tabbouli $8)<\/p>\n

I look forward to trying more on our next visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you been to the Hotsy Totsy? Do you drink? Shot and a beer? Or something more clever in cocktail form? Do you like local memorabilia? Are you intrigued yet? The HTC has been a staple of the easy bay since 1934. Currently owned by Jessica Maria and Michael Valladares (since 2008) it’s a lovely combination … Continue reading “An evening in Albany”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,14],"tags":[39,48,47,45],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinking","category-eating","category-thoughts","tag-dining","tag-east-bay","tag-restaurants","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-aN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}