
Milk & Honey, New Year’s Eve 1999
Twenty years after it changed cocktails forever, friends and former staff remember the bar’s exhilarating early days.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Georgette Moger
Twenty years after it changed cocktails forever, friends and former staff remember the bar’s exhilarating early days.
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