First of all, I should say that I never intended to uncover the history of the Harvey Wallbanger. The journey by which I became obsessed w...

The "Mixologist of the Month" columns in Wine Enthusiast often cause me to chat with bartenders I wouldn't otherwise. Whi...

I was among those who were not thrilled when the landlord of the midtown Manhattan building that held the old bar Bill's Gay Nineties...

The Thursday Style section of the New York Times has a lovely running column called "Boite," in which a new bar is profiled in a ...

I used to think that the notion of a pre-feast Thanksgiving cocktail was a relatively recent notion, the product of our cocktail-crazy t...

Cocktail bars that have their own private barrel of whiskey, personally selected by the owners from a distillery in Kentucky, have become...

I am a considerably more educated man today than I was a month ago, when I started doing research for this article . Since that time, I...