The hard-covered liquor and snacks menu resembled a book.
Down the block from the Howard is the four-month-old Bistro Bohem (600 Florida Avenue; 202-735-5895; bistrobohem.Czech a Czech small-plates spot with 40 seats, tall glasses of pilsner ($6 or $8) on tap, Eastern European liquors and a menu of delicacies like pirogi ($9) and shareable clean-your-plate beef goulash ($15).
The Menu: "The liquor, that is, the rye, was all about the same: most people bought drug store rye on prescriptions (the physicians who were club members saved 'scrips' for their patients), and cut it with alcohol and colored water.
Tabla (115 Durango Street; 915-533-8935; tableavescom) little litole to be desired with its modern décor, a rotation of custom-infused liquors and an extensive menu of tapas.
Open Tues-Sat 10pm-2am Gis is not a liquor often found on menus in this pisco-loving country, but it's the raison d'être for one of the newest bars in Santiago's rapidly gentrifying Barrio Italia neighbourhood.
The Adam Tihany redesign from 1996 is being repeated here with somewhat fewer seats, more smoked fish on the menu, a full liquor bar and nuggets of grivenes (chicken cracklings) and ptcha (garlicky jellied calf's foot) to nibble with a drink and to make mavens weep with joy: 162 East 33rd Street, (212) 677-0606 or (212) 689-9000.
The bar is stocked with every conceivable kind of premium liquor and has a cigar menu.
This weekend we clap for Mark, and as I plot his dinner menu and hit the liquor store, I have to decode what he wants.
The 48-seat restaurant has 20 menu items and a full liquor license, and Mr. Cirillo said the average check, with drink, is $9 to $12.
Barkowski lacks a liquor license; the $7 cocktails on the menu get their kick from Soju, a hangover-inducing Korean grain alcohol.
They infuse all of their liquors in house and their short tapas menu provides crowd favorites like baked brie, gourmet popcorn and deep-fried jalapeño mac and cheese sliders.
