This is the final entry in a four-part series by New York Cocktails author Amanda Schuster about New York’s role in shaping how we drink. Read parts one, two, and three. When asked, “What’s the New York City cocktail scene like these days?” people probably…
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Dante’s Naren Young on Good Martinis, Bad Martinis, and “Owning” the Negroni
We had the chance to speak with Dante Creative Director Naren Young on the eve of the New York City bar’s new Martini Hour menu launch. The Martini Hour is the latest initiative from the historic bar, which currently occupies…
New York’s Cocktail Renaissance
This is part three in a four-part series by New York Cocktails author Amanda Schuster about New York’s role in shaping how we drink. Read parts one and two. The “end of an era” is a phrase we’ve heard a lot in New York…
A Glimpse Back at Prohibition in New York City
This is part two in a four-part series by New York Cocktails author Amanda Schuster about New York’s role in shaping how we drink. Read part one here. It all seems so romantic now—the unmarked entryways, the secret passwords, the trick doors, an…
How Bartenders in Pre-Prohibition New York Changed the Way We Drink
This is part one in a four-part series by New York Cocktails author Amanda Schuster about New York’s role in shaping how we drink. There is much talk about the influence New York City culture has on the modern cocktail…
Contest Will Decide Between NY and TN Towns Claims to Long Island Iced Tea
The war between Tennessee and New York over the claim to having invented the cocktail known as the Long Island Iced Tea will come to a head on June 27, 2018 at 3 p.m. EDT, in what future historians who…