For this year's All Things Considered holiday cocktail interview, we visited Providencia in Washington, D.C., a bar that brings its owners' personal stories to life.
From left to right, Paola Velez, Pedro Tobar, Erik Bruner-Yang and Daniel Gonzalez pose for a photo outside the newly opened alley bar Providencia in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 12.holiday cocktail interview
When we visited Providencia, Tobar and Gonzalez were behind the bar to mix some of their favorite drinks of the season."One of my favorite ones is the café de olla, because it holds a very dear memory with my grandma," Tobar says. Daniel Gonzalez makes a café de olla at Providencia in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 12. This alcoholic cocktail contains rum, coffee, sesame and horchata and is served with a piece of packaged Kopiko coffee candy."Every time I would drink coffee, she would give me a pastry. And the cocktail itself, it tastes just like you dipped a pastry in the coffee."The drink is served in a coupe glass, with a wrapped candy attached to the rim with a tiny clothespin.
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