Cocktails

The One Trick to Finding the Best Bar in Any City in the World

Igor Hadzismajlovic is the co-founder of Employees Only, the award-hogging craft cocktail bar in New York’s West Village that opened in 2004 and...

The Easiest Cocktails To Make For All Your Holiday Parties

Holiday party season is upon us. And if you’re hosting, the question of what drinks to serve is almost as pressing as gift lists. As with mos...

Top Chefs Say Smoked Water Is Worth More Than Whisky

Chef Heston Blumenthal wanted a simple and consistent way to imbue risotto with a smoky flavour at the Fat Duck, his Michelin-starred restaurant...

The Ultimate Sell: The New Food Branding Is Right on the Burger

Consider this a response to the hyper-artisanal world we live in. Or perhaps an extension of it, the next step in bespoke products. Restaurants aroun...

An Insider's Guide to London, From the City's Cult Cocktail Crew

Wherever the guys behind Experimental Group go, the cool kids tend to follow. In Paris they jump-started cocktail culture, arriving just as a ...

Nine Things You’re Doing Wrong In A Cocktail Bar

Getting a drink at a good bar. It's one of life’s great pleasures. But there are right and wrong ways to go about it. Jim Meehan, co-founder of PD...

Ditch You Dirty Martini for a 50/50, The New Drink of the Moment

For a drink with only two ingredients, the martini inspires a disproportional level of disagreement. Its exact origins still a matter of dispu...

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Complete Guide To Myths And Mixology

One recent cocktail hour in Manhattan, I bellied up to the bar at Porchlight, the Danny Meyer bar on 11th Avenue, beneath the ascendant superblocks of Huds...