Four Savory Cocktails to Sip This Season
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Café ArtScience
Stephen C.
For a tart, piquant take on a mezcal sour, bar manager Todd Maul turned to a raft of roughage: charred jalapeños and lime, as well as leftover fruit scraps from pastry chef Renae Connolly, which he puts into centrifuge- spun ice cubes that help dilute the smoke and spice as they slowly melt.
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Alden & Harlow
Cassiopea
Caribbean meets countryside with this vegetal twist on the classic daiquiri. Created by bartender Mira Stella, the Cassiopea combines falernum, fresh lime, and an unaged light rum with a crisp fennel-and-pea-shoot “simple” syrup.
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Eastern Standard
Arugula
Like a gimlet on a bed of greens, bartender Diego Peña’s verdant cocktail is fueled by “rocket sugar,” an arugula purée that adds a grassy bite to the crisp combination of vodka, lemon, and dry vermouth. “I love arugula’s pepperiness,” Peña says, “and it has this nice bitter finish.”
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Hojoko
Naruhito
Foie gras is served in two unexpected ways at Tim and Nancy Cushman’s izakaya: in a pineapple sushi roll and in a cocktail. “We just want to add as much cholesterol as possible,” jokes bar manager Joe Cammarata, who infuses a lobe of goose liver into Akashi Japanese whiskey and tempers the umami opulence with Cocchi Americano and Bénédictine.
