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There is an hour after nine when a restaurant changes character. The late, unhurried dinner is one of the great pleasures of a city.

Learn one simple formula, spirit and citrus and sugar in balance, and a hundred cocktails stop being recipes and start being variations.

A good home bar is not a wall of bottles. It is a few good ones, a handful of tools, and a corner you actually want to stand at.