Coming of Age at Columbia’s 1020 Bar
Eight years later, there’s still no place that feels more essential.
- story: Michael Snyder
- photo: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Don’t Grow Up, Go to Stumble Inn
For a generation of New Yorkers grappling with arrested development, one bro-bar empire became a common refuge.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Eric Medsker
You Will Instagram This: The Mural at Trou Normand
The story behind the San Francisco restaurant’s larger-than-life, reclining figure.
- story: Chloe Frechette
- photo: Instagram
Drinking With William Grimes
The acclaimed author reflects on the early days of the cocktail revival, drinking at the Rainbow Room and his tenure as the restaurant critic for the New York Times.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Daniel Krieger
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Lookbook: El Tesoro Tequila Master Distiller Carlos Camarena
The revered tequila brand’s master distiller on family, sustainable practices and his quest to preserve tequila’s traditional methods.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Felipe Luna
The Last True New York Newspaper Bar
Bull Moose Saloon was a hangout for the staff of the Observer in an era where everything seemed to matter both more and less.
- story: M.H. Miller
- illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed
Before it became Ginger’s, the Brooklyn gay bar was its very own neighborhood opera.
- story: Alexander Chee
- illustration: Lydia Ortiz
Mermaid Lounge Was a Total Circus
The New Orleans music venue was a bastion of consequence-free chaos and eccentricity.
- story: Franz Nicolay
- photo: Nancy Laskowski Maas
Tell Me Your Double Door Story
In its prime, the Chicago rock club meant something different to everyone.
- story: Megan Stielstra
- photo: Double Door
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An Italian Amaro Tour, in Six Cocktails
We challenged two bartenders to create a series of cocktails using Averna, Braulio and Cynar that evoke the home region of each amaro.
- story: Punch Staff
- photos: Michelle Heimerman
The Paris Dive That Vanished Without a Trace
During its idiosyncratic reign, Le Fitzcarraldo adopted a chameleon-like existence, changing forms every other month. Then one day, it disappeared all together.
- story: Toby Cecchini
- illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Where Have All the Tortured Punks Gone?
Grimy, dark and relentlessly unapologetic, Mars Bar was among the final bastions of a bygone New York.
- story: Rosie Schaap
- photo: Dennis Crowley