Milk & Honey, New Year’s Eve 1999
Twenty years after it changed cocktails forever, friends and former staff remember the bar’s exhilarating early days.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Georgette Moger
Bar Review: The World Turns, The Varnish Stays the Same
Why the bar that kicked off LA’s cocktail revival resists the urge to change with the times.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photos: Dylan + Jeni
The Petraske Family Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Faced with finishing her late mentor's final project, bartender Lucinda Sterling found a way to collaborate with his vision while making it her new home, too. Leslie Pariseau on Sterling's…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Yoonhwa Jang
On the Enduring Influence of Sasha Petraske
In early January, a collection of bartenders who all worked with the late Sasha Petraske gathered to remember this man of outsized influence on the craft cocktail movement. Below is…
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Daniel Krieger
The Method Behind the “Bartender’s Choice” Cocktail Bar
In a few select bars around the country, menus have been replaced by conversation between customer and bartender. Drew Lazor explores where the concept of "bartender's choice" cocktail bars originated,…
- story: Drew Lazor
- photo: Daniel Krieger
This Week’s Best Drink Reads
Welcome to The PUNCHbowl, a weekly installment where we share our favorite longreads on all things drinks and nightlife. This week, we traced ginger beer's rise in the U.S., studied China's investments in…
- story: Punch Staff
Little Branch
One in a handful of New York City's first classic cocktail bars, Little Branch's aesthetic is deeply rooted in the evocation of 1920s speakeasies—a style that was big back in…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Cosmonaut
Piquant and slightly fruity, this cocktail represents Sasha Petraske's succinct retort to the ubiquitous Cosmopolitan.
- story: Chloe Frechette
- photo:
Crowd Control: A History of Bar Etiquette
Drinking in bars often requires a code of conduct to keep inebriation in balance with hospitality. Dan Saltzstein takes a look at bar etiquette and its role throughout the ages,…
- story: Dan Saltzstein
- photo: Glenn Harper
Milk & Honey Will Relocate. Again.
The first time legendary New York cocktail bar Milk & Honey shuttered, it was because the little Lower East Side bar was being relocated to a much larger space on Madison…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
