Modern Classics

Dispatches from the world's best bars.

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Recipes for Blender Drinks Worth the Brain Freeze - WSJ

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Summertime Juleps at Attaboy.

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Adam Robb

A Smoky Bourbon Cocktail form a Legendary Toronto Experimentalist

Impactful aromatics have always played an essential role in the creations of the Canadian mixologist Frankie Solarik. Inside BarChef, his Modernist cocktail laboratory on Toronto’s Queen Street West, multi sensory presentations evoke the flavors of the season - not just in the glass, but surrounding it, too.

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From “Jerry Thomas’ Bartender’s Guide: How To Mix Drinks or A Bon Vivant’s Companion”, 1862

David Wondrich:

“To look at the recipe for Rocky Mountain Punch is to assume that the name is merely honorific, assigned from the comfort of a club chair two thousand miles from Pikes Peak and the rough and ready life of the mines. But that would be a mistake. In all but the most precarious and temporary camps, the supply of fine drink was an item of paramount concern to what was by certain standards an unhealthily large proportion of the population, and items like champagne, Jamaica rum, maraschino liqueur, and lemons were often available when things like vegetables, eggs, and soap weren’t.”

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Cheers?

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The Espresso and Tonic: The Coffee Drink of the Summer?

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Tonga Hut - Palm Springs, CA

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If Chuck Palahniuk and Frank Sinatra drove a head of cattle across the Dakota Badlands and into a bullfighting ring where Winston Churchill bravely fought them all with a dagger that he won off of Teddy Roosevelt in a game of no-limits Texas hold-em which also involved Christopher Hitchens and Jim Morrison, and after Don DeLillo dealt the next hand the pot grew to include several rustic properties and a few angry wives, and Hitchens won but he looked down and the Rat Pack had heisted the whole thing, right under his nose, so he jumped into a cool sedan with Martin Amis and started blasting the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack and they drove to Vegas, baby, Vegas, infant, Vegas, preemie, and impressed casino bigshot Aaron Sorkin so much that he put them up in penthouse where Frank Miller was adapting an unpublished David Foster Wallace essay into a graphic novel that would finally get some respect, and everyone did drugs and sex and Raymond Carver stuff and then Bill Hicks walks in and just says the most cutting, honest thing and then everyone laughs and Anthony Bourdain pours everyone a Wayward Whiskey.

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Audrey Saunders on How to Make a Perfect Martini

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Treasures of the Tonga Hut (3/3) at the 10th anniversary of Jeremy Fleener reviving the Hut. “The Botanical Mai Tai” by Eric October.

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Bourbon on the Rocks at the Chateau Marmont - Los Angeles

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I drank for stimulation. Booze sent me stratospheric. It jacked up my narrative powers. It gave my thoughts a physical dimension. Booze made me talk to myself. Booze made me spritz my fantasies aloud.

James Ellroy: My Dark Places

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Robert Altman on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE: "Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times."

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Someday I'm going to be classy enough to freeze my bottle of Aquavit in a block of ice like Sterling Hayden's character in "The Long Goodbye."

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Fort Defiance Tiki Night Emoji Menu (via Briana Mowrey)