The decor has more than a dash of metropolitan cool about it, but the food is incontestably rooted in the ingredients and traditions of the south, even if the way the dishes are presented is a world away from rustic authenticity.
Use a dash of leftover, cooled coffee in your chocolate mixture and stir to bring out the flavor of the chocolate.
PLAYLIST DJ Cato, a veteran of the original Double Seven and one of the current regulars, played vaguely Brazilian-sounding chill-out tracks (again, that late '90s feel) with a dash of hip-hop and cool '80s ("Tainted Love," "I Can't Go for That").
You melt in a little soda ash and dash of limestone and then cool the mixture fairly quickly.
Even his title is genius: "A Void" (think about it: He not only avoided the "e's" in "The Disappearance," but he also slipped in a dash of metaphysical angst and a cool play on words).
Inside, the M Coupe gets a dash of brushed metal that feels cool to the touch hey, it's actually metal!
The clam pizza at Otto, meanwhile, is an appealing pie except that the clams on the pizza are served in the shell, requiring a mad dash of shucking before the crust cools and turns rubbery.
When it comes to neo sports-bar cocktails, then, it seems best to avoid the attempts at liquid androgyny and stake a firm position: the rugged whiskey sour at Warren 77 (enlivened with a dash of port), or the Spa Cooler at Capitol City, a sunny, feminine mixture of açaí liqueur, lime juice, cucumber and mint.
There is also a dash of Cayce Pollard, the brand-averse cool hunter of Mr. Gibson's novel "Pattern Recognition," a paragon of understatement in boys' Fruit of the Loom T-shirts, black 501 jeans, her clothes scraped free of logos, her hair, as Mr. Gibson described it, "poking up like a toilet brush".
