Every five years I hear the word roll off bartenders lips with joy and savour. Tiki. It’s back. Again. Everyone’s favourite style of drink is making yet another resurgence. People just won’t give up on it, even when it has been beaten against the ropes, a la the closings of PKNY (Painkiller) or Lani Kai in NYC. Of course, for all the tiki bars that…
SUMMER. IT ISN’T OFFICIALLY HERE, but we’ve already had some hot, bright days in New York City. When the sun beats down on the back of my neck, and burns my skin a lobster pink, I think of one cocktail and one cocktail only: the Daiquiri. Named after a small village on the southern coast of Cuba – where US troops landed during the Spanish-American…