Cocktail Blogger to Bartend; Todd English at Sea

BACK BAY - Haru at the Shops at Prudential Center has added some new cocktails to the mix. These include the Mikayo Islander, with three types of rum, orange and pineapple juice and grenadine and the Ichiban Whisky Smash, with muddled lemon, orange and mint, Yamazaki 12 year single malt and Cointreau.[Official Site]

KENDALL SQUARE - Cocktail Virgin/Slut blogger and Drink & Tell: A Boston Cocktail Book author Fred Yarm makes his bartender debut tonight at The Blue Room. He'll be joined by Katie Emmerson of The Hawthorne for an event called Whiskey and Amari: The Women of the Wild West. No cover charge, no reservations needed. From 9PM to 1AM: see here for more details. [Facebook]

THE HIGH SEAS - Sometimes Boston restaurateur Todd English gets a mention from the New York Times, which spent a week on the cruise ship Queen Mary 2, on which English has a restaurant, called the Todd English Restaurant. "As soon as you notice that the appetizers include something called 'Todd's Truffled Potato Love Letters,' you know you are in for it, in a Nicholas Sparks kind of way." [NYT via GS]
[Photo: The Blue Room/Facebook]