Nectar cafe east side nyc11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Inside, the lights are low, the space small and romantic. The approach, up a flight of stairs and through an izakaya restaurant, remains one of the coolest in the city. What better time, then, to look in on the bar and see how it’s bearing up under the standard it set. ![]() As for Japanese whisky-once an obscure, mysterious commodity only obtained in places like Angel’s Share-well, it’s now among the most sought-after, elusive and expensive juice in the world. And examples of the Japanese style of whiskey highball, more precise and subtle than its American counterpart, can be had at Bar Moga in Greenwich Village, Karasu in Fort Greene, Bobby’s Heugel’s Tongue-Cut Sparrow in Houston and Jim Meehan’s new Prairie School in Chicago. Tokyo Record Bar, recently opened on Greenwich Village, is an homage to an idiosyncratic genre of night spot found in Tokyo where music is as attended to as the drinks. Kenta Goto, longtime bartender at Pegu Club, scored a success with Bar Goto, his Lower East Side interpretation of East-meets-West drinking styles. It’s taken a couple decades, but New York has finally started to embrace some of the hallmarks of Japanese drinking. The bar represented Manhattan’s first taste of the Tokyo style of cocktail bar: all formality, intimacy and meticulous service. Lately, however, drinking trends have come around to make Angel’s Share a prescient trailblazer yet again. Though respected as a key progenitor, it was largely left behind-the Chuck Yeager of cocktail bars, earthbound while later bartender-astronauts bounced on the moon and garnered the glory. Angel’s Share, however, has not reaped the revolution’s spoils as much as other, more media-savvy bars and bartenders. Since its debut, the cocktail revival has risen up and soared, largely instigated by the model of Milk & Honey, which borrowed Angel’s Share’s church-like atmosphere and sense of decorum. ![]() Before PDT, before Bourbon & Branch, before the late, great Milk & Honey-on which it was a major influence-this snug, second-story speakeasy was showing America what a night of sophisticated drinking could be if both you and your bartender agreed to put on your big-boy pants for a few hours.Īngel’s Share opened in 1993 to little hullabaloo. We craft cocktail drinkers are the parvenus, only recently arrived. Bartenders in vests, ties and arm garters cradling cocktail shakers in a tough-love embrace. The rules of etiquette posted on the wall. ![]()
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