Dead Celebrity
The challenges and triumphs Alex Waldman faces owning Istanbul's only craft cocktail bar are perhaps best summarized by this drink.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Katie Parla
Tuxedo
A classic dry Martini with fino sherry standing in for vermouth.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Gibson
A good example of how powerful a garnish can be, with this cocktail the onion transforms a bitters-less Martini into an entirely new drink: the Gibson.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Sidecar
A gussied-up cognac sour made famous at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Toby Cecchini’s Cosmopolitan
The must-have liquid accessory of the 1990s.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Hemingway Daiquiri
With his prodigious constitution for drinking (and then writing about it), Ernest Hemingway shows up frequently in cocktail mythology, and none perhaps more famously than in this drink’s.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Julie Reiner’s Clover Club
Reiner's version of the classic has become a staple at her Brooklyn bar of the same name.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Salted Rim
Some say a salted rim is essential to a Margarita or a Michelada. That's up to you, but if you're going all out, PUNCH recommends salting half the rim to…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
The Charleston
Madeira meets bourbon in this equal parts Manhattan variation.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger