Zig Zag Café

The Art of the Unmeasured Cocktail

Sometimes, the beauty of an experimental or intuitively measured cocktail lies in its irretrievability. Nicholas Hall on living outside of ratios and formulas and in the moment of the "splash…

• story: Nicholas Hall
• photo: Jazz Guy

Last Word

One of the few surviving Prohibition-era drinks, the Last Word originated at the Detroit Athletic Club, where it was most likely mixed with bathtub gin during America’s dark days of…

Trident

The Trident is a nautically-inspired interpretation of the Negroni, created in 2000 by Robert Hess, a cocktail enthusiast from Seattle.