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Nicky paris cocktail

It’s Been a Long Week: Nicky Paris

As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make yourself a glass or two, on us — you deserve it.

 

We’re always on the hunt for a good bar with chic, but laid-back vibes, and exceptional liquor. And it really comes to that fine line that is so incredibly difficult to execute without skewing one way or another. Pretty Ricky’s, part of Paradise Hospitality owner of Mister Paradise, truly manages to deliver in a way that the Lower East Side has never seen. For one, you’re sure to get an exceptional cocktail from William Wyatt, but the bar also delivers scrumptious bites and beers. In fact, one is a special kind of beer made through a champagne process called “Deus,” Brut des Flanders. This one’s a hefty $90 for the bottle, but entirely worth the splurge. Just as a sneak peek, we’ve borrowed a cocktail to show what you’re in for…

 

Ingredients: 

  • 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice
  • 1/2 oz Linie Aquavit
  • 3/4 oz Pandan Syrup
  • 3/4 oz Lime Juice
  • 1 1/2 oz Plantation Original Dark

Nicky paris cocktail

 

Method: 

  • Add all ingredients to tin and whip shake on 2 KD cubes
  • Single strain into Belgian glass filled with pebble ice
  • Create pebble ice dome and garnish with a lime wheel with a single pineapple frond (or lime wheel) behind it 

Bottoms Up!

Lot 15 NYC bar

Good Old New York Revived at Lot 15

It is rare to impress a New Yorker with a new bar, but Lot 15 at the Kixby Hotel near Herald Square is a Midtown-gamechanger. A good bar either invites one with a mixologist-exquisite menu or a cozy atmosphere enveloping the patron and swooning them to come back over and over (this is that ONE bar you always visit,) but Lot 15 combines both of these themes.

Lot 15 NYC bar
Lot 15 NYC bar

 

With head bartender Cameron Shaw up to the challenge to change Midtown’s cocktail scene, the menu is a designer’s pride and also a yummy delight. Divided into four sections (one offering two non-alcoholic options,) each part divides the cocktails into methods: stirred, shaken, and/or built. From there, the classics are listed including the martini, an old fashioned, a sour, a daiquiri, and others. Beyond those, three options of specialty cocktails are suggested as variations of the classics. The result is that in case you like a Martini but prefer it with a bit of extra flavor, the bartender might suggest a Vesper or a Boulevardier (whisky negroni) if you have a taste for negronis. And just like that, the complex and confusing world of mixology is simplified at the bar– straight up.

 

 

Lot 15 NYC bar

 

The concept was born out of the idea of a mixologist versus bartender, the latter serving the patrons rather than a chemist ego. Instead, Lot 15 combines the ideas in a velvet salon. Featuring dim lighting, cozy furniture pieces, and a 360′ bar, this is the place to come for a drink and spend four hours in conversation, and maybe even indulging on the light bites. Artwork by contemporary muralist Fumero dots the perimeter of the space. Midtown now has a newcomer ready to spice things up in a good old New York fashion.

 

Lot 15 NYC bar