advertisement | your ad here home of the Subscribe to the weekend Chronicle Search Restaurants SFGate Recipes Barbecue Wine Web Search by YAHOO! Top 100 Restaurants Sign In | Register Businesses | Advanced Top 100 Wines Bargain Bites Reservations Cold outside? Warm up inside with seasonal drinks Inside Scoop SF 1-3 of 21 Galleries Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, December 22, 2011 PRINT E-MAIL SHARE COMMENTS (6) FONT | SIZE: Now you can have your cake and drink it, too. 10 Tweet With winter officially here, our 37 favorite bar drinks are getting a seasonal makeover, with everything from eggnog to 0 cinnamon to chai making their way into cocktail glasses. And while some are relatively light, like hot toddies, others, like hot buttered rum, might as well double as desserts. My Ride 1977 Mercedes Benz 300D Limelight Listing Barbi Benton's... Two-story Tudor in Burlingame with... advertisement | your ad here Not that the decadence is stopping anyone. "We sold more of those this weekend than anything," David Garrett, bar manager at Murray Circle at Cavallo Point and the adjacent Farley's Bar, says of the hot buttered rum. Lance Iversen / The Chronicle A Hot Toddy is one of the many holiday cocktails offered at Farley's Bar in inside Cavallo Point Lodge located at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. IMAGES It's no surprise that, come winter, the two fireplaces at the Sausalito restaurant become the most trafficked areas of the bar. It's simply that time of the year when we seek warmth, be it from food, family or 1. BP Seeks Recovery of All Gulf Spill Costs From Halliburton 2. Top 10 new restaurants of 2011 3. Oregon outlasts Wisconsin 45-38 in Rose Bowl 4. Panetta Said to Offer Revamped U.S. Defense Strategy This Week 5. Oklahoma St beats Stanford 41-38 in Fiesta Bowl 6. German Unemployment Falls as Economy Staves Off Crisis 7. CalWORKS recipients losing due to parent payments fireplaces. Get San Francisco Daily Deal alerts. For places specializing in spirits, that means creating cocktails that play on familiar ingredients. Please enter your email here. Today's Deal in San Francisco View All Images (7) "People want a beverage that warms them from inside out," says Garrett, who also serves a Coffee Flip and a hot toddy. "The drinks can be hot or cold, but they all involve warm spices, like cardamom, cloves, cinnamon $39 for 8 Bhangra Dance Classes at Dholrhythms Dance Company ($80 Value) SALE ENDS IN 36:04:25 and allspice." SAVE 51% So popular is the last, in fact, that there's practically a run on the hard-to-find rum-based allspice liqueur at this time of year. Garrett uses allspice dram, also known as pimento dram, in his hot buttered rum, along with a house-made spiced butter. Scott Beattie of Spoonbar in Healdsburg and Plum Bar in Oakland really puts the butter in hot buttered rum. His ultra-rich drink is made with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and copious amounts of butter - a quaffable dessert, for sure. FROM OUR HOMEPAGE Spices are also at the heart of Aunt Crystal's Holiday Punsch at Bluestem Brasserie in San Francisco. An Austrian take on mulled wine, the drink is a tribute to co-owner Adam Jed's aunt, who loved to heat red wine, Austrian rum, orange juice, sugar, cinnamon and cloves together for a warm punch. Meanwhile, Carlos Splendorini, the bar manager at Michael Mina in San Francisco and one of this year's Chronicle Bar Stars, has taken a liking to maple syrup. He "smokes" it in a saucepan with peaked whiskey, and uses the mixture in equal portions with cognac and sherry for his aptly named Tis the Season to Be Sherry! cocktail. "It's something very seasonal, especially for Christmas," Splendorini says. Gingrich: Romney is a 'liar' With caucus today, Newt takes off gloves in slam on national TV. Comments & Replies (0) Romney unease | Ron Paul support Winter drinks at the Farm at Carneros Inn in Napa include the Spice of Life - almondinfused Bulleit Bourbon, pomegranate chai simple syrup, lemon juice and apple juice and the creamy Mexican Hot CoCo, which bartender Jacob Chaney makes with goat's milk caramel, coffee and brandy. As for a drink that's hot and cold? The Fire & Ice Martini at Madera Restaurant & Bar in Menlo Park is as high-tech a cocktail as you'll find, featuring "molecular pearls" of house-infused chile vodka that burst on the palate. Most of these winter drinks will be served well past the holidays, and if you crave variety, you can also catch the last few days of the "12 Days of Christmas Cocktail" specials going on at Five in Berkeley and Americano at the Hotel Vitale in San Francisco. Unsexy real estate porn An agent used this photo to sell a home. And here are others that take unappealing to new levels. Comments & Replies (0) And for those seeking nonalcoholic beverages, there's always mulled cider - a drink bartenders are happy to serve. "It makes the bar smell really good," Garrett says. E-mail Janny Hu at jhu@sfchronicle.com and follow her on Twitter: @janny_hu. This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 new restaurants PRINT E-MAIL 0 SHARE We Recommend Tweet 10 From Around the Web 37 [What's this?] Cathy Corison - Chronicle's Winemaker of the Year 2011 How to Throw a Winter Cocktail Party (Home & Ramen Underground, S.F.: Late-night noodles 5 Secrets of Dieters Who Have Lost Weight and Kept it Off (MyDailyMoment.com) Top 10 new restaurants of 2011 Cotogna is on the list for 2011. See who else made it. 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