I took Wednesday off for some R&R. It was a beautiful Indian Summer day, so I drove as far as Columbia Point to have a lunchtime walk with Lorna at work, then I left the car there and took the T to South Station.

It's always fun exploring Boston. On this day I scouted the North End for a Taurasi to wash down an upcoming Neapolitan Dinner (and succeeded twice over at Cirace's, then meandered down the Rose Kennedy Greenway to view the activities of Occupy Boston.

After that I needed to kill a couple of hours until Lorna arrived at South Station to join me for dinner; naturally I went to Drink.

Drink is a bar, after a fashion. It is a cocktailian bar, with extraordinarily knowledgeable staff and an unparallelled range of ingredients. When I have trouble with a classic cocktail, I head to Drink to get set aright.  When I am in Boston with time on my hands (after 4pm), I make the trip and explore cocktails made with ingredients I have been unable to find or unwiulling to spend the money on.

In this case, I had time for two: I started with a nod to our Occupy Boston comrades with a Liberal Cocktail, which is made with the virtually unavailable Amer Picon, and then I learned about the bizarre Allspice Dram with a Lion's Tail. Each of these is described in its own page, just follow the links!