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The Mix with Robert Simonson

Recipe: Big Trouble in Little Italy

A Neighborhood of Manhattans in the Sky.

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Robert Simonson
Mar 11, 2022
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The Astoria cocktail at Manhatta.

I’ve often longed for a New York bar that carried a full menu of the “Neighborhood Cocktails”—that is, the entire of school Manhattan and Brooklyn cocktail riffs that cropped up during a sort and intense period of furious mixological invention in the New York City of the aughts.

Finally, one has arrived. And what better h…

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