Who Drinks a Perfect Manhattan?

The Order Has Its Devotees. But They Are Few and Far Between.

Two Perfect Manhattans, soon to be one.

The other week, shortly after The Mix published the 2023 edition of “The New York 50,” I got an inquiry from a subscriber. The list was great, they said, but among the fifty cocktails singled out there wasn’t one Perfect Manhattan. What bar in New York, they wanted to know, serves the best Perfect Manhattan?

I had …