VinePair

APRIL 25, 2024

There’s a Margarita & Soda, which reinvents the drink as a highball. Riffs now include unusual ingredients, infusions, and syrups that take the drink well beyond the sugary strawberry Margaritas of yesteryear. “I The mezcal in it is infused with an earthy fungus called huitlacoche, which is considered a delicacy in Mexico.

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VinePair

MAY 21, 2024

But once upon a time, back when Dante opened in 2015, the cocktail to drink was the Garibaldi, an obscure highball made of Campari and “fluffy” orange juice and topped with an orange wedge. The Green Giant was created by former head bartender Tom Macy in 2012. The drink is as kicky as the Gibson is gentle.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Gins play well with fresh herbs, fruits and produce so they’re a natural choice as a base for more refreshing, citrus-forward cocktails such as highballs, smashes and sours, says All Saints’ Weller. Queen in Miami’s Negroni riff Idol’s Eye, with N3 gin, Campari infused with strawberries and plum wine.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Credit: Jeff Brown While many bars turn to fat-washing or expensive infusions to deliver elevated drinks to their guests, Sebastian found a way to create an experience that can’t be replicated by simply buying the highest quality ingredients; these flavors have to be made with patience and care. Like, a 100-year-old soy sauce — that’s luxury.”

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

By the time Booker and Dax closed in 2016, I was the head bartender, and I spent the next year at the NoMad learning to make a lot of very good drinks very quickly. Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. Romeo’s , helmed by alumni of fellow EV-staple Virginia’s, offers a chill spot for fancy drinks and basic highballs in an aesthetic that references the ‘90s. But it was like any disaster.

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VinePair

JUNE 4, 2025

There was also 10 Years, 55 Seconds, a coffee cocktail made with coffee-infused Russells Reserve 10 Year Old Bourbon, Grand Marnier, Punt y Mes, and a Frangelico foam. It was a well-balanced highball layered, complex, refreshing, and delicious. The improbable mix of rye whiskey , alpine amaro, and melon liqueur somehow worked.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2025

The distillery bar and half a dozen others such as The Bison , Bluebird , Hello Sunshine , and Lupo are part of what’s been dubbed the Banff Cocktail Trail, which currently offers a lineup of tea-infused cocktails in conjunction with local purveyor Jolene’s Tea House. There’s more to explore beyond Botaanik.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, Gin & Juice, the RTD line of ready-to-drink cocktails from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, are available Chicago-based Puttshack , a tech-infused mini-golf concept, and the movie house chain AMC Theatres. Menus across the country are infusing their drinks with functional mushrooms. Pittsburgh restaurant Scratch & Co.

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