As a fifth-generation Santa Barbaran from the Cota lineage, the Canary Hotel’s beverage manager Jazz Moralez quickly brought hometown vibes to the cocktail menu at Finch & Fork after being hired a year ago, nodding to our history with drinks like the Don Oreña and Francesco Franceschi. Now she’s adding holidays to the mix and starting a series of mixology lessons with this weekend’s Witches & Brew cocktail class, where participants will learn to make four different Halloween-inspired drinks — and drink two of them — for $31.
“As much as I love children, I wanted to do something for adults,” said Moralez, whose extended family has lived on Mellifont Avenue on the Eastside for decades. And she knows many of us adults have collected an eclectic range of liquor bottles over the years that we aren’t sure what to do with.
“This is a class about how to be strategic with your hodgepodge, and also how to impress your friends,” she said, explaining that her intent is to riff on the classics. “I don’t want to send guests off to buy 50 million ingredients.”