El Duque
Rum stands in for bourbon and sherry for sweet vermouth in this coffee-inflected Manhattan.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Rum stands in for bourbon and sherry for sweet vermouth in this coffee-inflected Manhattan.
At No. 9 Park in Boston, Ted Kilpatrick served this coffee-flavored drink with fresh espresso and cognac in the style of an Espresso Martini.
A tequila Old-Fashioned spiked with mezcal and coffee-flavored brandy.
Reinterpreted for mere humans from Star Trek, Natasha David's Tequila Sunrise variation gets its color from a splash of bottom-floating Campari.
In the 1990s television show Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper encounters local specialty, the Black Yukon Sucker Punch: A split-level drink with a tar-colored bottom and a foamy, blue upper.
A bitter relative of the Espresso Martini from Andrew Volk of Portland Hunt + Alpine Club.
This combination of malty genever, apple purée, sweet pecan-brandy syrup and IPA alludes to the longstanding Dutch beer-and-genever-shot ritual, kopstootje (literally, “little headbutt").
At San Francisco's 15 Romolo, formerly a Basque restaurant from the 1940s until the 1990s, Andrew Meltzer makes the traditional Basque Picon Punch in ode to the bar's previous life.
The Espresso Martini was created by Dick Bradsell at Fred’s Club in the late 1980s, when a young model, who Bradsell claims is now world famous, sidled up to the…