Dante

SECOND STOP: Dante NYC

79-81 MacDougal Street (Greenwich Village)

www.dante-nyc.com

Open daily at 10:00AM


The next stop was Danté NYC in Little Italy. Their award winning bar crew's classic riff began with a crystal-clear plug of ice, a fat wedge of grapefruit peel, and a good hit of alcohol. The extra whisky amped up the typical 1:3 water/booze ratio, providing a more bracing quaff. Prepare to wait if you roll in for dinner, especially during peak hours. But drinks at the bar are always flowing.

The highball is among the world's simplest cocktails. Whisky, soda water and citrus peel is all that's required, and even the peel is optional. But leave it to the Japanese to raise the no-brainer concoction to an art form. The perfect ice, carbonation management, and whisky-to-water ratio are all areas of hot debate amongst Japanese mixologists who have been pursuing highball nirvana since the drink became fashionable in the 1950's. When Suntory Toki hosted a NYC bar crawl in search of the Best Highball in Manhattan, I joined the search team. What we discovered was more than just a whiskey soda. Click through for how it went down.


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