Stiff Drinks News Today

We checked out the happy hour at Tumble 22 for Nashville hot chicken and cold drinks.

Chez Zou, the chic new cocktail lounge from the team behind Zou Zou’s, opens on Manhattan’s West Side. Located just a few floors up from Zou Zou’s, the buzzy modern new Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from chef Madeline Sperling and Quality Branded, Chez Zou offers inventive and playful cocktails from Joey...

At the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, I browse the gift shop. It’s scented lavender from a leg-shaped diffuser in the corner. I like an OCME kitchen magnet, the key fob, the autopsy snow globe. I look inside the snow globe. A medical examiner stands ready to incise the vic, the perp. Shake the globe and the examiner’s coat flies open. He wears a silver Speedo. I want this book, Autopsies for Dummies. It’s on special, two for one. The man at the register says it’s a great stocki...

Does anyone else feel like we’ve hit the point of quarantine where a n y t h i n g out of your daily “routine” is the most exciting thing ever? The bars I paid visits to this week are all about service with a side of fun, which they’ve since adapted to "The COVID Times" while staying true to their identities. At the core of these two different bars is the same fighting spirit, and an openness to collaboration. We’re by no means out of the woods yet, but my hope is that the f&b indus...