January 22, 2018 Issue

Pick of the Issue this week is Talia Lavin’s “Bar Tab: The Narrows,” containing a couple of great drink descriptions [“As for the house drinks, the Pilar (mezcal, Cappelletti, Cocchi Americano) is a pure amber color in a globe-shaped glass, and splutter-inducingly smoky; the Babushka, a simple concoction of ginger, lime, and vodka, offers enough succor to allow the possibility of returning to the bitter cold of the street, where a lone bicycle lies in a snowdrift, buried up to its chain”], and this inspired detail: “In a corner booth, a man gently plucked a down-coat feather from a woman’s sleeve and blew it into the air.”