Cocktails
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A larger-than-life character best known for smoking cigars, downing whisky, and saving the world from Nazis, Winston Churchill is as much lore as man at this point. It takes a brave soul to try to…
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Tucked away in an almost hidden corner of Le Marais in Paris, the Sherry Butt draws much of their inspiration from Japanese culture. So is the case with the 6:48 a.m., a low-ABV highball variation…
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Good cocktails often have great stories behind them, and that’s certainly the case for the Avery Milk Punch from Rayo in Mexico City. Prohibition, an horchateria, a defunct 19th Century tractor company, the tale that…
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Subterranean bars and food carts. If that’s how you do New York, you do it right. We opt for that over the views at Le Bain any day. The team over at Madame George–the underground…
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Danes do life right. They’re the happiest people on the planet, boast some of the planet’s top fashion designers, and play home to the world’s best restaurants. They’re also the world’s most sustainable country. Things…
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The official drink of New Orleans, the Sazerac is a cocktail made for sipping on your French-style balcony while listening to the sounds of the city–probably jazz, definitely involving brass instruments. Not for the weak…
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Vesper Martini Sophisticated, yet simple, “shaken, not stirred,” the most iconic of the James Bond cocktails, the Vesper Martini, first gained attention in the first 007 novel, Casino Royale. Although this was only ordered once…
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When most people think of James Bond’s go-to cocktail, they think of the Vesper Martini—that gin, vodka, kina Lillet combo with a twist of lemon that’s about as hard on the liver as Miss Vesper…
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While John Lennon’s favorite cocktail may have been the Brandy Alexander, the most commonly known Alexander was originally made with equal parts gin, white crème de cacao, and sweet cream; shaken with ice, and strained.…
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It’s that time of the year again where ghouls and goblins try to put a scare into the cooling air. In exciting news, it’s the first Halloween in a while that’ll see many of us…