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Maison Premiere's Pontarlier Julep

The drink: Pontarlier Julep The bar: Maison Premiere The price: $13 The ingredients: La Clandestine absinthe, Plymouth gin, Aperol, sweet vermouth, orange flower water

Black Market's Reynolds on Rocking Chairs

Reynolds, who tends bar at Black Market and Lovers of Today, has had a long journey to New York. The Nebraska native worked in low-profile Vancouver watering holes for years, building furniture as a side job. But he got tired of mixing G&Ts, and moved to the city two years ago. Reynolds, who only go ... More >>

Our 10 Best Cocktails to Drink Now

Keith WagstaffNice shot​ For the past couple of years, The Daily Shot, FitR's inappropriately named weekly cocktail feature, has scoured the city for the tastiest cocktails it could find. Straight up, on the rocks, with a twist, rimmed, and even on fire. You name it: We've knocked it back. Now ... More >>

What to Drink at Bathtub Gin: The Eureka

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Chantal MartineauSip it and say, "Eureka!"​​​​The drink: Eureka The bar: Bathtub Gin (132 Ninth Avenue, Chelsea, 646-559-1671) The price: $14 Ingredients: Plymouth sloe gin, Laird's applejack, H ... More >>

What to Drink at The Bearded Lady: The Kinky Krown

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Chantal MartineauThe Bearded Lady's Kinky Krown​​​The drink: Kinky Krown The bar: The Bearded Lady (686A Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, 469-232-7333) The price: $9 Ingredients: Plymouth gin, ... More >>

Leif Huckman on Goat Town's Booze-less Cocktail List

Goat Town's Leif Huckman​Who says you need hard alcohol to make a great cocktail? Leif Huckman, the beverage director at the newly opened Goat Town in the East Village, spills the beans on the hardest tasting soft drinks in town. Tell us about the beverage program at Goat Town? We have a bee ... More >>

Top Shots: Our 10 Best Cocktails of 2010

One cocktail says to another: "You're going down!"​ Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Some of these bibulous creations leave our head swimming with delight, while others lead to little more than imbiber's remorse. We've sampled the best t ... More >>

Richard Boccato Discusses the Cocktail Collective at Forty-Four, Why Ice is Hot & the Best Old Whiskey-and-Beer Joints in Town

Richard Boccato​Richard Boccato has been a busy man this past year. He and partner Giuseppe Gonzalez opened the tiki bar Painkiller on the Lower East Side, he continues to run - and reinvent - Dutch Kills in Long Island City, and he's gearing up to launch the Tribeca outpost of the popular Wea ... More >>

What to Drink at Orient Express: The Mitropa

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Chantal MartineauAll aboard.​​The drink: The Mitropa The bar: Orient Express, 325 West 11th Street The price: $14 The ingredients: Plymouth gin, Aperol, Cocchi Americano, grapefruit bitters, and Pey ... More >>

Wake Up to Coffee Cocktails; Canadians Come Up with Wine-Fed Beef

​The Randolph at Broome has started serving hot and cold coffee cocktails from 8 a.m. on, such as the World's Best Dad, incorporating Laird's Applejack and sweet vermouth, and the Slow Trip to New Orleans, made with Bulleit bourbon, Plymouth sloe gin, and coffee. [Diner's Journal] Tokaj, Hun ... More >>

What to Drink at Milk & Honey: A White Negroni

Negroni: white washed.​The drink: White Negroni The bar: Milk & Honey, 134 Eldridge Street The price: $16 ($12 for members) The ingredients: Plymouth gin, Lillet Blanc, Suze, over ice in a rocks glass. The buzz...

Some Photos From the Beard Awards and Its Boozy, Well-Fed Aftermath

Rachel Wharton shows off the Beard Media award she picked up on Sunday for Best Food-Related Column.​ Fork in the Road was at Avery Fisher Hall last night for the James Beard Awards and their boozy, overfed aftermath. Gin and caviar were dispensed freely in the press room, where journalists p ... More >>

How Fucked Up's Savvy SXSW Post About Artist Exploitation Applies to Other Venues (Like, Um, the Internet) Too

​Very smart post up today written by guitarist Mike Haliechuk at the Canadian band Fucked Up's blog, talking about the economics of Austin's South By Southwest music conference. The gist of it is an attempt to answer a simple question, one that a person could easily ask about CMJ or other, sim ... More >>

Beefeater Previews New Seasonal "Summer" Gin at Gin Symposium

Even classic London Dry gin goes seasonal.​Bartenders from around the city filed into the W Hotel at Union Square yesterday for gin school. Sponsored by Plymouth and Beefeater, the Gin Symposium featured a tasting of 10 different gins, as well as presentations from various bartenders from arou ... More >>

The New American Blues at Colicchio and Sons

Famed chef returns to the Meatpacking District

Jason Cott on Bar Seven Five's Portable Bar Program, Cocktail Consulting & Getting in on the Tiki Craze Before it Started

Jason Cott (left) and Toby Maloney (right) of Alchemy Consulting​ Andaz Hotels enlisted Alchemy Consulting to craft the classic cocktails for Bar Seven Five, set to open January 25 in the new Andaz Wall Street hotel. Jason Cott, one of the partners in Alchemy, reveals what to expect from the n ... More >>

New York City Martini Crawl

In which we prowl the city sampling today's take on the most classic cocktail

What to Drink at Bar Celona: It's All About the G y Ts

mccun934/flickr​For reasons unknown, the simple gin and tonic has become one of the most popular drinks in Spain. True to form, Bar Celona, the new tapas bar opened by former fashion consultant Cynthia Diaz in Williamsburg, will not only serve small plates and a selection of wines, it's also t ... More >>

Chatting With Gary Regan About 'The Gin Compendium', the Lady in the Glass & His Next Book

​"Gin's a spirit unto herself. She's a loner. Gin can gnaw on the back of your neck till she nigh-on draws blood, and she can just as easily kiss you softly behind each ear, stroke the back of your shivering hand, and make you know that everything's going to be okay. And it will, you know. It ... More >>

Clip Job: Jean Shepherd Shepherds Another Annual Rallye

 Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 6, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 42HubcapsBy Daniel ListLast Sunday we held a sports car rallye on the outskirts of Washington Square Park, and we should certainly be thankful for the high spirits of the contestants. This was the eighth annual ... More >>

Cookbook Tester--The Essential Cocktail by Dale DeGroff

Chantal is heading to Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans tomorrow, so you can look forward to insider stories of the cocktailarati. To kick off a boozy week, a test run of Dale DeGroff's book The Essential Cocktail seemed appropriate. DeGroff is often known as the King of Cocktails, the guy who ... More >>

Booze News--A New Beefeater Gin & Mezcal's Cult Following

A new study suggests that patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who drink wine before their diagnosis have a reduced risk of relapse or death. The five-year survival rate was 70 percent for wine drinkers and 65 percent for non-wine drinkers. [US News via Alcademics] Randall Grahm, the winemaker at Bon ... More >>

The Secret's Out--Sherry Society Coming to a Back Room Near You

You're induction into the secret society will go something like this: You'll receive an invitation telling you where and when to convene. You'll arrive, be greeted with a cocktail, and led down a flight of stairs or perhaps a darkened hallway to a secret room where others share your enthusiasm. We ... More >>

A Gem of a Drink

We amused ourselves (and saved a few bucks) this past weekend making our own classic cocktails. This sultry little number is a Bijou, which is the ancestor of one of our favorite tipples: the Tailspin. We used the King of Cocktails himself, Dale DeGroff's, recipe. 1.5 oz Plymouth gin 0.5 oz green ... More >>

NYPD Blew It

Kelly's new deputy chief of training brings lots of experience, much of it bad

Seeing It All

Twilight in America: The Rockford Files meets The French Connection

Reconstruction Zone

An artist's quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable

When Boozing Gets Spooky

Bonus: Halloween with many Connie Chungs

Too Hot for the Homeland

Montserrat volcano victims get the heave-ho from the U.S.

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Moustachioed Gents in Chef Smocks Mix Up Classy Cocktails

The Last Executioner

Dow B. Hover was paid by the state to run its electric chair in the 1950s and '60s. The job may have cost him more than he earned.

Close-Up on Vinegar Hill

A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza

The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions

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The Choler of Money

Hell and High Water

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