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Chain Restaurant Cocktails: The Good, the Bad, and the Outrageously Boozy

VinePair

After placing a footed glass filled with frothy, pink liquid atop a thick marble bar, the bartender gently pours something glittery and purple over my drink from a tiny pitcher. This isn’t a trendy craft cocktail bar with mustachioed mixologists and $30 cocktails. Fridays used to be the cocktail bar,” Duff says.

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Raising the Bar: What It Takes To Succeed as a Bartender Today

VinePair

So, when management offered to recruit a few bar-curious servers to cover the vacant lunch shifts, I jumped at the opportunity to cut lemon and lime wedges all day in exchange for feeling like I was Tom Cruise in “Cocktail” for a few hours on a Tuesday afternoon. Ten or 15 years ago, dive bars were beer-and-a-shot spots. “At

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The New Guard of the East Village Cocktail Scene Has Arrived

VinePair

Their top-selling drink is a Vodka Soda. The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. Still, it’s a well drink at heart, served by an acclaimed, white-hot bar in the East Village. There’s a lot to unpack.

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THE CHURCHILL BAR AND TERRACE LAUNCHES MARINE-INSPIRED OUTDOOR SPACE WITH GROUND-BREAKING, SUSTAINABLE COCKTAILS

Bar Magazine

To be served both outdoors and inside the bar, the menu is the latest chapter to team’s signature cocktail journey and a testament to collaboration, with 12 carefully crafted cocktails, all of which have been creatively developed with a specific emphasis on sustainability, a particular passion of Bar Manager Gaston Fusco and his team.

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It’s Everywhere, It’s So Julia — Midori Is Brat

VinePair

“I think this made people look at Midori again, but this time in relation to the quality of shochu and all these whiskies that weren’t really a thing in the States before the craft cocktail movement.” “As As craft cocktails push the boundaries of what bars can do, bartenders have been able to use Midori in unprecedented ways.

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