Blaine Ashley founded CitySip.com. At the time, Blaine was also the City Editor for HauteLiving.com Hawaii, generating regular content for the online daily publication and covering the best of luxury lifestyle. Over the past 7 years, Blaine has also developed market research strategies for Haute Living, Modern Luxury Magazines and online forum, LeiChic.com. Blaine also spends a lot of time covering social and nightlife scenes for a variety of publications. Now based in Manhattan, Blaine’s key focus is managing daily spirited content for CitySip.com while she contributes a regular column, Sipped ‘n Scene ‘On the Town with Blaine Ashley’ to industry trade magazine, Tasting Panel. Blaine continues to contribute to WhoWhatWear.com, TheDailyMeal.com and more. Blaine’s ultimate passion is the luxe life trifecta: Travel. Food. Drink. And, lucky for her, CitySip is an ideal platform that perfectly showcases all three of these passions while allowing her to spend time in some of her favorite places especially winter at home in Hawaii! In just one year, CitySip is in 5 Markets: NY, SF, LA, LV and Hawaii with Boston just around the corner. Blaine is thrilled to expand CitySip into other city markets and bring the cocktail culture related site to life via spirited events across the globe.
Still in a sappy, sweet mood from Valentines Day? We certainly are which prompts us to tell you about Cent’Anni syrups. Our great City by the Bay based friend, Victoria D’Amato launched the spirit line a little over six years ago in her very own kitchen starting with a spicy Jalapeno syrup that was crafted [...]
On the heels of our pre-Valentines Day ‘Like It Hot’ event last week at The Pierre Hotel, we just can’t get enough of hot cocktails, particularly ultra toasty tipples. So, we set out on the streets of New York as the snow was starting to flurry this weekend to sample some of the tastiest Toddys [...]
Whether you’re staying in and preparing a home-cooked meal for your sweetie or taking your hot date out on the town. We have the perfect nightcap treat to top of your Valentine celebration. Elusive, sexy speakeasy spot, Angel’s Share offers another stellar service on top of their craft cocktail preparation that many might not even [...]
On Wednesday we revealed some LOVEly cocktails to consider whipping up for your loved one this Valentines Day. However, should your sweetheart prefer a glass of vino, bubbly or some other spiked alternative to a sugary V-day cocktail then CitySip’s favorite local wine store, Winfield & Flynn has got you covered. We took a trip [...]
The romance and seductive lure of Valentine’s Day beckons equally delectable cocktails. With lovey dovey day less than a week away, how about considering whipping up your sweetheart one of these fine tipples or two. Create an ultra-sweet ‘I heart you’ start to your February 14th date with these tasty cocktails: Primrose 1 ½ oz Hendrick’s Gin [...]
G’Vine Gin, is proud to announce the official launch of the G’Vine Gin Connoisseur 2012 (www.legcp.fr) – the global quest for the world’s best gin bartender. This year, the theme will hark back to a golden era of cocktail making paying focus to French Classics. Any bartender from anywhere in the world can enter the [...]
The Super Bowl is coming! So, where do you intend to watch the big game complete with an endless bucket of beers, greasy grub and most importantly, huge flat screen TVs? Here in NY, we can expect a mad house at any given bar seeing that our home team The Giants are facing off against [...]
This past Monday, CitySip New York held our second edition of Monday Brunch at Maharlika, a monthly affair that caters to the bar industry the last Monday of every month. Sponsored by Evan Williams Black Label Bourbon, PAMA Liqueur and Lunazul Blanco, Maharlika co-owner and bar star, Enzo Lim created three cocktails, each complimenting the [...]
On Monday night, Edible magazine joined forces with four-time whisky innovator of the year, Compass Box Whisky to host a bartending competition in search of the Best Great King Street Cocktail. The Manhattan vs. Brooklyn bartender structured tete-a-tete was thrown at the chic Ramscale Penthouse in NY’s West Village. Bar stars from each borough first [...]
Kevin Diedrich of Jasper's Corner Tap Leave it to trend-setting San Francisco to stay on the cusp of cool and ahead of the curb on cocktail couture. A couple of weeks back, CitySip put out two Sippin’ 5 Cocktail Trends for 2012 lists that that the City by the Bay happens to be precisely on point [...]
