Cocktail Party for Dinner

Plus: Billy Wilder’s Martini; And Introducing a New Segment: "On a Toot!"

Midweek, Toot-wise, outside Long Island Bar.

Happy Friday! With this post, we are introducing an new, occasional Friday feature called “On a Toot!” (It’s old slang for a drinking spree. Look it up.) In it, I try to remember some of the liquid highlights of the week, and other highlights in general. “On a Toot!” will only run on Fridays and will only be available to paid subscribers. We hope you enjoy it.

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Dinner Parties May Be Out, But Cocktail Parties For Dinner Are Always In.

As you know from reading this newsletter, in December we were in Spain. And while we were sitting at our last meal before heading to the airport—at El Chigre in Barcelona eating “squid bombs”— I had the realization that my favorite meals were in tapas form.