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Real Estate
There’s More to a Home Bar Than Liquor. Here’s What Else You Need.
An artful display tells your guests you care about them — and it’s easier to create than you may think.
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Magazine
The Bumpy Gourd That’s Winning Over Bartenders
Austin Hennelly, the 35-year-old bar director at Kato, a Taiwanese restaurant in Los Angeles, likens tasting bitter melon to “going down the drop of a roller coaster.” Sipping the fruit’s juice — which is the star ingredient in his Garden Tonic, a ...
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Food
At Lolita, Serving Mexican in Midtown, Agave and Sugar Cane Drinks Rule
Frog Club opens in the former Chumley’s space, the Crave Fishbar team opens a sushi spot and more restaurant news.
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Arts
Best Classical Music Albums of 2023
Our favorites include premiere recordings of works by Thomas Adès and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, as well as portraits of Missy Mazzoli and Kaija Saariaho.
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Business
Key West for Cheapskates
Can a thrifty traveler afford this “end-of-the-road” Florida hot spot? Getting around on a rented bike and staying in a four-person dorm room helps.
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Travel
Why I’m Still in Love With Waikiki
It’s fashionable to look down on the famous Honolulu beach as touristy and inauthentic. But you can still find the tropical paradise that inspired dreams of the islands, if you know where to look.
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World
Another Cocktail Festival, but a Different Continent: Africa
Plans are afoot for Ajabu, which will draw bartenders from around the world to focus on Africa’s contributions.
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World
Adventures on Dublin’s Culinary Trail
The Irish have helped perfect, perhaps even invent, the pub as we know it. Storied Dublin locales like Gravediggers and Mulligans keep that tradition alive. The Irish culinary legacy, on the other hand, is still being rediscovered and refined.Dublin ...
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Business
Chile, Known for Its Wines and Piscos, Turns to Gin
Last Hope Distillery is one of the only real cocktail bars in Puerto Natales, a horseshoe of a city that wraps around a windy inlet in Chilean Patagonia. To enter, visitors buzz, speakeasy-style, then hang up their coats and settle in at the bar. A ...
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Health
Illicit E-Cigarettes Flood Stores as F.D.A. Struggles to Combat Imports
Some vapes are appearing with increasing nicotine levels that approach those in a carton of cigarettes. U.S. regulators did not authorize them, but have failed to keep them off shelves.
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