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Our Favorite Bubbly Cocktail Recipes by Style
“Pour some Champagne on it” is a truly pan-seasonal phrase. Just as welcome in spring and summer (when a classic spritz is a more-than-agreeable addition to an aperitivo spread) as in winter (when the...
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One More Round for Rocky at the Palais Royale
I spent my senior year at SUNY’s University at Albany drinking at a bar called the Palais Royale. It was neither palatial nor royal. The Palais, as we called it, was a narrow, dimly lit townie joint in...
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Which Drink Trends Should Disappear in 2017?
Every year sees new trends born, some that will stick and others that are destined to flame out. Last year gave us the meteoric rise of mezcal and, unfortunately, the ironic embrace of Fireball. This...
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No More Three-Martini Nights, and Other Drinking Resolutions
There is no experience more human than looking back on a year that’s nearing close of business and realizing you accomplished precisely none of the goals you made for yourself at its outset. Let’s use...
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Our 15 Most Popular Cocktail Recipes of 2016
“Martini.””Old Fashioned.” “Mojito.” If top-ten lists offer insight into the defining features of the previous year, it’s fair to conclude from Google’s most-searched cocktails of 2016 that, two...
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Our 15 Most-Read Stories of 2016
As it’s been said, 2016 was a bit of a mess. Fortunately, at PUNCH, we get to cover a subject that, even when the stakes are high, is inherently about pleasure—and, therefore, a respite from the...
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Mastering the Martini with Takao Mori
At Tokyo’s Mori Bar, any bartender can pour a whiskey or muddle a Mint Julep. But when you order the Martini, don’t be surprised to see owner Takao Mori emerge from the back to make it. It is, after...
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A Match Made in Paradise: The Story of Chinese-Tiki
Even if you’ve never heard of Hop Louie, there’s a good chance you’ve seen pictures of it. The restaurant is located inside one of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, a baroque,...
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How Well Do You Actually Know the Toddy?
Belonging to the broader family of pre-cocktails—those like the julep and the sling, which rely strictly on spirit and sugar, plus water and the occasional grating of nutmeg—the classic toddy has...
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How to Hack Your Daiquiri for Winter
The Daiquiri is the quintessential summertime cocktail. Born in Cuba, the simple combination of white rum, sugar and lime is designed to be clean, bright and refreshing. Come winter, however, the drink...
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A Quick Guide to Syrups for Winter Cocktails
Calling on a flavored syrup in place of a more conventional sweetener is one of the easiest ways to give a cocktail a seasonal twist, whether using evergreen to lend a taste of the holidays or...
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Inside Bushwick’s Invite-Only Covert Cocktail Club
He wouldn’t give me his name. He wouldn’t give me the address. Instead, directions arrived via email as a vague riddle: Look for a sign in a second-floor window. After a few wrong turns, I spot it—a...
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The Making of Mission Chinese’s Color-Changing Cocktail
Two years ago, when Mission Chinese beverage director Sam Anderson set out to find a replacement for blue Curaçao he stumbled on an unconventional ingredient: butterfly pea flower tea. The tea, which...
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Bringing It Back Bar: What to Do with Creole Shrub
In Martinique, for as long as there has been rhum, there has been shrub, an orange-flavored liqueur typical to the island. Most often labeled Shrubb by commercial brands—not to be confused with the...
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Is There a Better Way to Make a Martini?
In his book The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto, Bernard DeVoto praises a deftly executed dry gin Martini as a muse that promises no less than “art’s sunburst of imagined delights becoming real” (which is...
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Name Your Deathbed Drink
Cost and consequence notwithstanding, what would your final drink be? Believe it or not, it’s a question that’s garnered an array of responses from luminary figures throughout history. On his deathbed...
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Long Live the New Orleans Set-Up
Chances are your primary memory from 2013 probably has nothing to do booze. It was the year that scientists successfully cloned human stem cells for the first time. Bitcoin was a popular topic of...
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Can Orlando Become a Cocktail Capital?
Orlando, to most, does not exist beyond its Technicolor facade. But venture just a few miles beyond the splashy confines of the Cinderella Castle, and you’ll find that the city is home to one of the...
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Falernum Moves Beyond the Tiki Realm
With tiki’s second act in full swing, scores of bartenders have been revisiting decades’ worth of tradition draped, like so many flower necklaces, around this cultish cocktail movement. Evidenced by...
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In Search of the Ultimate Martini
If ever there was a cocktail that might provoke a brawl, it’s the Martini. Ever since there have been people who think of themselves as Martini drinkers—a species that popped up following Prohibition,...
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