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The Drink List
The Drink List: LOWER EAST SIDE
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No one knows better where to find good drinks and cool bars than the people who work in them. So, the staff at Shiftdrink has scoured the city to bring you the finest cocktails and inside information on the staff behind the scenes at the city’s hottest venues. Introducing: The Drink List. For this week’s installment, we visited two bars on the Lower East Side that are serious about mixology. Here is what we drank:
SHE LOVES MEI...SHE LOVES MEI NOT
In our recent visit to The Summit, a new bar on Avenue C, we sampled a drink with one the longest names we've ever come across, the "She Loves Mei, She Loves Mei Not." It's an exotic blend of Peruvian Pisco, Szechuan peppercorn-infused Agave syrup, egg white, lemon, and muddled edible Ecuadorian rose petals. You'll find yourself mezmerized as you watch the bartender carefully strain each of his drinks from a shaker into a hand-held colander, usually over a perfectly chiseled square cube of ice.
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THE DRINK LIST: SOHO
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No one knows better where to find good drinks and cool bars than the people who work in them. So, the staff at Shiftdrink has scoured the city to bring you the finest cocktails and inside information on the staff behind the scenes at the city’s hottest venues. Introducing: The Drink List. For this week’s installment, we visited Soho and here is what we drank:
THE BAZOOKA
At Tailor, the brainchild of former WD-50 pastry guru Sam Mason, they take mixology to a futuristic level applying concepts of molecular gastronomy to their drink menu (curated by wünderkind bartender Eben Freeman). Order “The Waylon” (12 bucks), for example, and you’ll be served a drink in a Collins glass that looks unassuming like a run-of-the-mill Jack and Coke with a lemon wedge. The Waylon is indeed bourbon-based, but the kitchen runs the coke syrup through a smoker and plugs it back into the soda gun. That’s right—smoked coke.
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THE DRINK LIST: EAST VILLAGE
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No one knows better where to find good drinks and cool bars than the people who work in them. So, the staff at Shiftdrink has scoured the city to bring you the finest cocktails and inside information on the staff behind the scenes at the city’s hottest venues. Introducing: The Drink List. For this week’s installment, we visited two East Village bars serious about mixology and here is what we drank:
THE ELLISON COCKTAIL
Charles Hardwick (formerly of Mercer Kitchen) created the cocktail menu at Blue Owl and named this drink for the novelist Ralph Ellison, author of “Invisible Man.” The Ellison features Hendricks Gin infused with rose petals, muddled mint, and cucumber shaken with fresh lime and bitters. The refreshing cucumber flavor and herbal tinge from the mint made the drink taste almost nutritious.
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THE DRINK LIST: WEST VILLAGE
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No one knows better where to find good drinks and cool bars than the people who work in them. So, the staff at Shiftdrink has scoured the city to bring you the finest cocktails and inside information on the staff behind the scenes at the city’s hottest venues. Introducing: The Drink List. For this week’s installment, we dressed up and dressed down at two excellent West Village restaurants serious about drink-ology. Here is what we drank:
GUAVACITA
We asked Kwame, the bartender at Cabrito on Carmine Street, about Pisco, one of the ingredients in the “Guavacita.” Without hesitating, he snags two shot glasses from behind the bar and pours us each a taste of this potent Chilean rum. In the “Guavacita,” Pisco is shaken vigorously with yellow chartreuse, guava, lime juice, egg whites and Peychaud bitters and poured into a small cylindrical tumbler (pictured). It looks like a frothy, oversized shot of Pepto-Bismol but the taste makes you feel like it’s spring break in Cabo.
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