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Influential Cocktail Bar Flatiron Lounge Is Closing After 15 Years

The influential Flatiron Lounge that was once home to several top cocktail makers like Phil Ward and helped shaped NYC’s craft cocktail scene will close Saturday, December 22, the Times reports. The ... read more

Cocktail Icon Julie Reiner on Her New Book, Her New Bar, and Advice for Bartenders Opening Their First Business

For all the new cocktail books that have been released in the past couple of years, too few of them have been written by the pioneer mixologists that actually got the craft-cocktail ... landmark New ... read more

Islander Eats: How A Taiwanese Sushi Master Was Accepted By Japan

While some pursue the craft of sushi in foreign countries and find success ... Most recently at KOR Taipei, the city’s famed cocktail and lounge bar, chef Kyo Hsu collaborated with one of the ... read more

Ivy Mix and Julie Reiner Prepare to Roll Out a Pan-Latin Cocktail Bar

One of these bartenders was Julie Reiner, who opened the Flatiron Lounge, Pegu Club, and Clover Club, three of New York’s torchbearers of craft mixology. Now good cocktails are everywhere ... read more

New West 7th spot Parlour has excellent drinks — and a perfect hamburger

There are definitely cocktail bars in downtown St. Paul, but few that focus completely on craft, and fewer still in the area around ... The sprawling diner/bar/lounge takes up four storefronts on West ... read more

Clover Club's Julie Reiner Releases an Essential New Book for Home Bartenders

And though Petraske is often credited as an early pioneer in what's now known as "craft cocktail" culture ... fancy ice—following close behind was another seminal New York potation pro, Julie Reiner, ... read more

Visiting Asheville? It’s like Brooklyn. But cooler.

Despite a dazzling cocktail menu and sprawling wine list, it’s hard not to order a beer when more than half the drafts are brewed nearby; the Gaelic Ale from local craft pioneer ... We close the night ... read more

A First Night Hartford timeline, and scores of other New Year’s Eve parties

A craft activity making Showstopper Celebration Hats at Wadsworth ... 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Semi-formal to formal dinner party is presented by Greater Hartford and Pioneer Valley Churches of Christ. $60, ... read more

New Oyster Happy Hours

Take a trip to the Big Easy on Mondays, when this jazz-inspired Flatiron joint offers $1 oysters ... In the Lipstick building in midtown, the after-work crowd flocks to this craft-cocktail lounge on ... read more

New restaurants opening in 2018: Parlour Bar St. Paul, Spring Cafe and more

(Jess Fleming / Pioneer Press) Parlour’s St. Paul location is more of a complex — the Minneapolis craft cocktail bar’s expansion will ... will seat 30-35 people — they’re calling that the lounge. And ... read more