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In the Limelight: Apple

Chilled Magazine

The Big Apple, as the city is ironically nicknamed, is seeing a renaissance of classic cocktails like whiskey sours, martinis, and highballs. Other NYC spots have also added creative drinks spotlighting the apple to their menu, like Foxtail’s Honey Baked Apples, Lindens Apple Shiso Highball, and Altair’s Roasted Apples. Lemon Juice.5

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Toast To Love With These 8 Valentine’s Day Cocktails!

Chilled Magazine

Tonic Water Preparation Add ice into highball or balloon glass. Tequila Aphrodite’s Arrow by Virgin Hotels NYC’s Everdene Head Bartender, Marlon Rowley Ingredients 1 1/2 oz. Gin , Liqueur French Jasmine Tonic by Chambord Liqueur Ingredients 3/4 oz. Chambord Liqueur 1 1/2 oz. Fords Gin 6 drops Jasmine Water 3 oz.

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How to Achieve the Best Bubbles for Highballs

Imbibe Magazine

In our May/June 2024 issue , Kate Bernot explores the levels of dedication (even obsession) that bars are devoting to create the perfect, bubbly highball. Alex Dominguez, head bartender at New York’s Bar Calico , is a fan of Fever-Tree. Few elements can so drastically alter a drink like carbonation—or lack thereof.

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Mastering Extracts and Essences With Sunken Harbor Club’s Garret Richard

VinePair

By the time Booker and Dax closed in 2016, I was the head bartender, and I spent the next year at the NoMad learning to make a lot of very good drinks very quickly. Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender.

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Why Bartender Janice Bailon’s Paloma Is ‘Thinking Pink!’

VinePair

According to Janice Bailon, head bartender at Latin American restaurant Leyenda in Brooklyn, creating an excellent cocktail starts with a clear intention. When she gets started on a new recipe, she asks, “Where do I want this to be? What do I want it to convey? What’s the storyline?” Top with soda, add garnish.

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At NYC’s Hottest Bars, Order These Sleeper Hits Instead of Their Most Popular Cocktails

VinePair

But once upon a time, back when Dante opened in 2015, the cocktail to drink was the Garibaldi, an obscure highball made of Campari and “fluffy” orange juice and topped with an orange wedge. The Green Giant was created by former head bartender Tom Macy in 2012.

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We Asked 19 Bartenders: What’s Your Go-To Bourbon? (2024)

VinePair

Evan Flynn, head bartender, Death & Co , Denver “ Wyoming Whiskey’s Double Cask Bourbon. It’s 100 proof, so it stands up well in cocktails but doesn’t blow people’s heads off if they want to drink it neat. I really love what Wyoming Whiskey is doing [with this bottle]. It’s kind of my platonic ideal of a bourbon.