New York state’s COVID-19 regulations have been difficult to navigate for bars and restaurants, but Cure has a solution for New Year’s Eve.
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Three Holiday Cocktails — hold the pumpkin, please
Looking for a comforting cocktail this holiday season, but you’re tired of pumpkin-flavored drinks? Three local bartenders have you covered.
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Rochester Cocktail Revival moves forward despite unrest and coronavirus
Rochester Cocktail Revival and its director Chuck Cerankosky forge ahead with a “low-proof version” of the annual event.
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Beyond the toddy
The 1971 edition of Playboy’s Bar Guide devotes an entire chapter to cold-weather tipples. “Nowadays any cool evening in the fall or winter is reason enough for filling the cups to the brim with grogs and nogs,” it says. Twenty-seven individual cocktails follow, from the Blue Blazer to the Sherried Scotch. But today, cocktail culture […]
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ROUND UP: The ground round
As much as we may not want to admit it, Rochester is pretty well known for its meats. We have the Garbage Plate (can’t escape that one), white hots, BBQ joints, and pretty decent chicken wings. But the city is not typically known for its meatballs — but maybe it should be. From traditional Italian-style […]
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DINING REVIEW: Pleased to meat you
It’s a chilly Wednesday evening in early October. The sheds at the Rochester Public Market are vacant, a brisk wind chasing bits of paper and leaves around the wide-open space. On the edges of the market, warehouses, brooding ramparts of industrial-grey concrete and steel rolling doors, stand shuttered and dead under the glare of security […]
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Cocktails and food
At this particular time in culinary history, it’s become pretty much standard practice to needlessly complicate something as simple as sustenance with hip buzzwords and lofty concepts. Dan Martello bucked that trend by explaining the focus of his new restaurant Cure to me in exactly four syllables: “Cocktails and food.” But even though he’s already […]
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Jordan’s mediocre Thief
The teaming of Neil Jordan and Nick Nolte is an interesting one, considering the director only seems capable of making a good film every other time out (his most recent was The End of the Affair), while the actor has been able to successfully carry a film approximately once over the last 10 years (Affliction). […]
