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Comfort Cocktail
Cocktails

Find Your Comfort Cocktail

What our favorite drinkers are reaching for in these times.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Michelle Hiemerman
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Places

For Whom Does the Bar World Spin?

The industry's touted progress benefited a select few. Now is the time to build bars that workers actually want to come back to.

  • story: John deBary
  • illustration: Sarah Tanat Jones
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Notable

Goodnight, Nitecap

The boundary-pushing New York bar was a model of inclusivity and a showcase for the light-hearted side of serious cocktails.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Eric Medsker
Places

The Bars That Speak Volumes

What neighborhood joints can teach us about the fabric of their communities.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Anthony J. Rayburn
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Places

The Night the Neon Went Dark

An elegy for March 13, the final Friday before New York City bars turned off the lights.

  • story: Brad Thomas Parsons
  • illustration: Joe Gough
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Places

The Irish Pub Is Dead, Long Live the Irish Pub

For as long as the Irish have lived in New York, so, too, have their bars.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photos: Eric Medsker
Fixed Cocktail Menu
Cocktails

Dear Cocktail Menu, Never Change

Does a drinks list need to flip four times a year—or even at all?

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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Cocktails

The Quiet Defiance of Decibel

How New York’s pioneering punk-rock sake bar became a culture unto itself.

  • story: Jon Bonné
  • photos: Eric Medsker
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Places

Suburban New Jersey’s Secret Bar Scene

Hidden within the quiet bedroom community of Maplewood, a growing crop of decked-out, dad-run “garage bars” have become fixtures of the town's nightlife scene.

  • story: Aaron Goldfarb
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
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Places

RuPaul, Patron Saint of New York’s Gay Bars

During Drag Race season, New York’s gay bars have the atmosphere of a sports bar in the run up to the Super Bowl.

  • story: Jen Vafidis
  • photo: Gabi Porter
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The Wines of Right Now
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The Wines of Right Now

We spoke to 150 sommeliers and retailers around the country to assemble a list of the 15 producers who represent the wine zeitgeist right now.

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