The library
Where drinks came from, told from the record. Where the record runs out and the stories begin, we say so.
The vermouth age · 1860 to 1910
When Italian and French vermouth reached American bars in the decades after the Civil War, the cocktail changed shape. The Manhattan came first, the Martinez followed, and the Martini spent fifty years getting drier.
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The grand hotel bar · 1893 to 1939
Between the 1890s and the 1930s the grand hotel bar became the cocktail's finishing school: the Waldorf's brass rail, the Savoy under Ada Coleman and Harry Craddock, the Ritz in Paris, the Long Bar at Raffles.
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