Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

If you grew up like me, going to a traditional Greek diner once a week, you probably encountered bars that looked something like the one pictured below that also happened to serve pastry. Most of the ...

In my early days of working in a bar, there were certain bottles that I simply never touched. They sat there unloved, unused and unknown, tucked away deep in the back bar of endless bottles, wholly ...

Demand from the United States for the plant-based liqueur Chartreuse has never been greater. But the French monastic community that makes it has refused to increase production, preferring to save time ...

Matt Ortile travels to the French Prealps, where the elusive green liquor, derived from a 1605 recipe and still made by Carthusian monks, represents far more than just a cocktail ingredient.

While it strives for all-local products, The Hangar bar at City Goods on W. 28th Street, uses some Chartreuse to produce traditional and classic cocktails. It will miss the French, green magic.

Chartreuse is a French liqueur that has a distinctive green color and a complex flavor profile. It is made by monks of the Carthusian Order in the Chartreuse Mountains of France, using a closely ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Anthony Bancy: Intrigue swirls around the liquor known as Chartreuse, sometimes ...

With bar programs becoming more and more specialized, the past month’s flurry of openings have brought two restaurant bars with a very rare, unusual offering: vintage Chartreuse. Coincidentally, The ...

You have to give the people involved with making and selling Chartreuse their props. The consumers of that peculiar, vegetal French liqueur have been wigging out at the news that the monks who make ...