“The morning after the night before” measures time in a very interesting way

As fall set in, I ventured out to Left Hand Path on Wyckoff avenue, one of the newest places to open up recently in Bushwick

It is a known fact that life moves in cycles. There is a certain repetition that proves to be familiar but, then again, it’s still new. These cycles of life can be easily correlated with the steady stream of seasons. However you might want to approach summer, there is one thing that can always be […]

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The Knickerbocker Hotel There is no easy or difficult way of making a cocktail. As the book Elements of Style concludes: “The longest way round is usually the shortest way home.” In the case of a cocktail, it’s all about capturing a multifaceted story that is told by the mixture of the ingredients, the establishment […]

Theoretically, there could an infinite amount of outcomes for a night. This is a thought that pervades my every night, pushing me to explore all the different manifestations of a night. When my cocktail mentor and dear friend Jeff Vitkun asked me to participate in a Bushwick Mixer tasting spree, I was enthused at the […]

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All photos taken by Gustavo Ponce for Bushwick Daily A lot of people believe that a cocktail is just a mixture of different spirits. That it’s just a fancy way of drinking a spirit and nothing more. A simple addition of different spirits coated in a fancy-looking glass with a flamboyant color. But no: a […]

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Frances: The cocktail, in my foolish and cartoonish opinion, is the vice of the leisure suit clad pseudo-sophisticate

After The Polar Vortex and storm Hercules, we now find ourselves in a period of calm and storm-free weather

Everybody stresses the importance of doing something new in the new year, represented by our New Year’s Resolutions

Every cocktail acknowledges the history of classic cocktails that have come before it

As I mentioned in my previous column, the quest for the perfect cocktail is like searching through a Pete’s Candy store

Surely, one of the most difficult parts of writing a column about cocktails is trying to decide which cocktail to write about

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As fall matures, the complexity of tastes evolves

It is widely accepted that hangovers are an unpleasant ordeal

Halloween is nigh upon us, and thirsty creatures in search of succor would do well to creep or crawl to Heavy Woods, where six new fall cocktails are being unveiled just in time for Bushwick’s scariest holiday

Most of the time, if you tell people that you are going to Bossa Nova Civic Club, they think that you are either going to a cool Bossa Nova trio performance or that you belong to an old-school boys’ club that would require you to wear a suit jacket

There are certain components that have to come together to make a good David Lynch piece

Tough days demand a good glass of wine, football days wouldn’t turn into football nights without beer, and if you’re having a truly exceptional night, you need a Kiss & Tell from Heavy Woods

It has been scientifically calculated that there are as many variations of the Whiskey Sour as Nyan Cat videos

Faust gave his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, and jazz musicians have been known to broach deals with the devil in exchange for divine skills