Recipe: Summer Feelings

A New Book Offers Memories of the bar Nitecap

The haul from my final visit to the bar Nitecap. I still have the tote bag. Some of the Meletti, too. The sandwich is gone.

The last time I visited Nitecap—the Lower East Side basement cocktail bar that was one of the many unfortunate casualties of the early months of the Covid pandemic in New York—was July 25, 2020. The bar, like dozens of others, had b…