Pete Napolitano’s Got a Theory
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View ArticleHack Your Drink: The Two-Minute Ramos Gin Fizz
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View ArticleLookbook: Earlecia Richelle, Grey Goose Ambassador
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View ArticleMastering the Rob Roy with Anu Apte-Elford
Typically described as a Manhattan made with blended Scotch instead of bourbon or rye, the Rob Roy is not an obscure drink by any means. And yet, it has never quite captured the same devotion as its...
View ArticleFive Cocktails from Spring’s Hottest New Bars
This season brings with it a slew of notable new openings across the country, with fresh concepts from industry leaders like Julia Momose and Brian Miller, alongside new locations of already beloved...
View ArticleThe Most Notable New Bars in America, Spring/Summer 2018
This season brings with it a slew of notable new openings across the country, with fresh concepts from industry leaders like Don Lee and Dave Arnold, alongside new locations of already beloved bars....
View ArticleThe D List: Bringing Back the Antrim Cocktail
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View ArticleLookbook: Rhachel Shaw, Bar Manager at LA’s Westbound
This story is published in partnership with Bacardi’s Spirit Forward Women in Leadership series, an annual summit dedicated to championing the spirits trade community and accelerating the advancement...
View ArticleBar Review: The Trouble with the “Hyper-Local” Cocktail
Corey Polyoka’s new Washington, D.C., cocktail bar, A Rake’s Bar, is housed in The LINE Hotel’s revamp of a century-old former church. To enter, you walk up a daunting flight of steps and pass between...
View ArticleScience Your Way to a Better Aged Cocktail
Patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait. Learn the pace of nature. All of these idle thoughts point in the same direction, instructing us to wait a little—it’s not ready yet. Some of...
View ArticleHow to Use Drambuie in Cocktails
Poor, unloved Drambuie. Typically swept aside into the “cordials” corner of drink menus, this spiced, whisky-based liqueur is the most likely to have an inferiority complex. Did It for the Dram...
View ArticleThe Best Drink Books of Spring and Summer 2018
This season brings with it an abundance of top-notch reading on topics across the board, each signaling larger shifts across the drinkscape. Reflecting a growing trend across the country, low-proof...
View ArticleHow Did the Blow Job Shot Happen?
The crudest era in cocktail history begins with a man pruning his peach trees in Florida in the early ’80s. The gentleman in question is Earl LaRoe, a flavor scientist for National Distillers, a wine...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Hollywood Get Drinking Right?
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View ArticleLookbook: Stephanie Teslar, Bar Manager at Austin’s Backbeat
This story is published in partnership with Bacardi’s Spirit Forward Women in Leadership series, an annual summit dedicated to championing the spirits trade community and accelerating the advancement...
View ArticleWhat Aperitif Hour Looks Like in America
Though the aperitif is both linguistically and culturally native to Europe, it has experienced a gradual but significant uptick in exposure within the stateside bar scene in the past several years. In...
View ArticleIn Search of the Ultimate Mint Julep
“The only day you can sell them, you can sell hundreds of them,” said bartender St. John Frizell, owner of Fort Defiance in Brooklyn. “And the next day, you sell zero.” He was talking about the Mint...
View ArticleHack Your Drink: The Sweet Wine Swap
PX sherry has a long history of being used in place of simple syrup, but at Philadelphia’s Abe Fisher, beverage director Brian Kane is taking that mode of thinking a step further. He calls on a variety...
View ArticleFind Your Paradise in Midtown
A snowstorm had just swept through New York two days earlier, and despite the calendar’s plea to spring, another storm—and then another—was not far behind. But beyond the gilded Deco façade of 551...
View ArticleThree-Drink Minimum: Bartending with Liz Pearce
This story is published in partnership with Bacardi’s Spirit Forward Women in Leadership series, an annual summit dedicated to championing the spirits trade community and accelerating the advancement...
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