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Cocktails

What Happened to the Bar Tab?

Why “Put it on my tab,” once a bond between bar and loyal customer, has gone extinct.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • illustration: Nick Hensley Wagner
Cocktails

Paddy Ford Wants to Get to Know You

If Smith & Wollensky’s longtime barman doesn’t know your name, “you came from someplace else.”

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Eric Medsker
Cocktails

Find Your Paradise in Midtown

In “Dive” Leslie Pariseau explores the bars at the far edges of popular nightlife. Here: Tommy Bahama bar, an under-the-radar, beach-themed attraction in gilded Midtown Manhattan.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photos: Michelle Heimerman
Cocktails

Bar Review: The Trouble With the “Hyper-Local” Cocktail

A Rake’s Bar dedicates itself wholly to regional ingredients, forgoing the likes of simple syrup and citrus. But are the drinks any good?

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Reema Desai
Cocktails

Pete Napolitano’s Got a Theory

The iconic Melody Lanes bartender on bartending’s “mathematical signature” and what he’s learned from 30 years behind the bar.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Eric Medsker
Places

The Last Speakeasy on Swing Street

In "Dive" Leslie Pariseau explores the bars at far edge of popular nightlife. Up first: The under-the-radar Harlem jazz joint, Bill’s Place.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photos: Michelle Heimerman
Places

Getting Lost in Minas; Or, How to Love Mezcal

Thad Vogler learns that to truly understand mezcal, you have to surrender to it.

  • story: Thad Vogler
  • illustration: Nick Hensley Wagner
Cocktails

Bar Review: The New Face of the Hotel Bar

Downtown LA’s booming scene insists that the new hotel bar is really five bars in one.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Dylan + Jeni
Cocktails

The Legend of the Taos Tree Martini

The ski world’s most famous cocktail is a Martini-filled porron buried in the snow.

  • story: Aaron Goldfarb
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

Bar Review: Jim Meehan’s Ambitious Act Two

Just over ten years since opening the pioneering PDT, Jim Meehan returns with Prairie School, a high-concept bar inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Hilary Higgins
Places

Behind the Backbar at Washington, D.C.’s A Rake’s Bar

Corey Polyoka explains his approach to building a bar program focused exclusively on regional spirits and ingredients.

  • story: Kara Newman
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
Cocktails

Bar Review: Is the New EMP Actually an Improvement?

Robert Simonson on the revamp of Eleven Madison Park’s trailblazing bar.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Eric Medsker
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