Japan’s Little-Known City for the Cocktail Obsessed
With its unpretentious approach to cocktails, Utsunomiya is an unlikely source of inspiration for the country's best bartenders.
- story: Nicholas Coldicott
- photo: Kelly Puleio
With its unpretentious approach to cocktails, Utsunomiya is an unlikely source of inspiration for the country's best bartenders.
For 15 years, it's been passed between bartenders and across continents, becoming a living record of modern drink-making.
As wine becomes further entrenched in nightlife, its dedicated spaces are becoming less reverent, more urgent and sometimes chaotic (in a good way).
Despite being a symbol of the modern cocktail zeitgeist, the ice-cold preparation is nearly as old as the freezer itself.
Dozens of bars, from Key West to Dublin, allow anyone to tune into their feeds 24/7.
The simple, low-ABV combination has taken Jamaica by storm.
Would you like to be spanked by a leather-clad bunny while drinking shochu? Ordered to do push-ups by a drill sergeant bartender? Rub elbows with fellow “tet-chan,” or Japanese railway…
An estimated 70 percent of all tequila contains undisclosed additives, like vanilla extract and aspartame. One couple is on a mission to change that.
First popularized in 1950s São Paulo, the mix of cachaça, sweet vermouth and Cynar wants to take over the world.
Over the past several decades, the “culinary cocktail” has evolved from a farm-to-glass ethos to a high-tech mission to translate food into liquid form, with memory at its core.