If you've never had absinthe, it may be because you've heard that it isn't exactly pleasant to drink. However, if you're still curious about giving it a try, there are ways to dip your toe in the ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...

Absinthe is a spirit made from distilling a combination of wormwood, green anise and fennel. The resulting drink is known for its green tint, aniseed flavour, and high alcohol content – some ...

So when we heard about the Absinthe Lounge over on Lamar Street ... down version made from a less potent kind of wormwood. The drink itself has few, if any, redeeming qualities.

and Bénédictine herbal liqueur with a few dashes of absinthe and Peychaud’s bitters. This classic, spirit-forward cocktail was served as the house drink at La Louisiane, a high-end restaurant ...

It calls for sweeter blanc vermouth which accentuates the herbal notes from the absinthe. Drink this alongside briny and plump oysters from Duxbury, Massachusetts. They have lovely brothy salinity ...

Wormwood is a bitter herb and an ingredient in the alcoholic drink absinthe. It may have antimicrobial properties, relieve pain, stimulate digestion, and more. However, it contains thujone ...

Invented in Switzerland in the late 1700s, absinthe quickly became the French drink of choice, with consumption skyrocketing so quickly that the years before the First World War were dubbed ‘les ...

Few cultures are more romantic than the French, and À Côté Bar à Absinthe channels that spirit ... making it much easier to duck out after one drink if that's what you need to do.