Destination: Cocktails
The Traveler's Guide to Superior Libations
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Featuring hundreds of cocktail bars in dozens of cities across the United States and around the world, Destination: Cocktails is the traveler’s guide to the craft cocktail movement. From New York to Los Angeles and London to Tokyo, this book is the ultimate reference to a network of fantastic bars providing their customers with only the best in gourmet beverages. Destination: Cocktails explores a variety of venues, and features urban lounges, dive bars, and five-star hotels alike. Some locations are brand new, and some have been serving drinks since the 19th century. What do they have in common? They all make quality cocktails, crafted with care, using only the best ingredients. For a bar to be included in this distinguished guide, all that mattered was what was in the glass. With drink reviews, insightful interviews with the proprietors and mixologists, fascinating historical trivia, and a bonus recipe section, Destination: Cocktails is an unrivaled reference book for the craft cocktail enthusiast. Your ultimate cocktail crawl begins here and now—don’t forget to send us a postcard!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An exuberant celebration of dives, lounges, and upscale watering holes around the globe, Teitelbaum's guide to craft cocktails is a must-have for road-trippers and jet-setters looking to wet their gullet. Readily acknowledging the pretentiousness that can accompany many a libation and drinking establishment ("Sleeve garters, a mustache, and a bottle of Peychaud's bitters do not a skilled bartender make."), Teitelbaum is reverent but realistic when it comes to breaking down a bar scene. Expected landmarks like NYC's Please Don't Tell, San Francisco's Bourbon & Branch, and Harry's New York Bar in Paris are featured, but Tietelbaum diligently includes plenty of equally inviting lesser known venues, like the Museum of the American Cocktail, fittingly located in New Orleans, the pirate-themed PX in Alexandria, Virginia, and Tokyo's Y&M Kisling, whose bartenders "take whole courses on ice as part of their training." Tietelbaum (Tiki Road Trip) is an adventurous tippler and an enthusiastic guide, though his writing skills are not as developed as his palate. An irritating habit of beginning entries with "there are two types of in the world," and his insistence on referring to his female drinking compatriot as "Gal Friday Night" quickly loses its novelty. If readers can get past his prose and consume the book in small doses (just like its subject matter), they'll have a fine time planning their next boozy outing. Photos.
