Mediocre coffee, cheap whiskey and bland, spray-can cream are hardly going to have the leprechauns beating your door down for a nightcap.
Not using caffeine to stay awake at night and not winding down with a nightcap are both high on the pro-sleep list, Czeisler said. .
Upon stopping off for a nightcap at a neighborhood haunt, we down our favorite mix of vodka or scotch or sake or burgundy or tequila or rum or millet beer, whereupon we say our mildly drunken and all-too-effusive goodbyes to head home to catch the latest news from Darfur or Kabul or Guatemala City or Jakarta or Caracas or Amman or Belfast, before closing our eyes for the night.
ANYONE who decided that the main presidential electoral dinner was rather tame should perhaps pop down to Louisiana for a nightcap.
10 30 p.m. 9) NIGHTCAP OR NIGHT STARTER After dinner, walk down to the waterfront until you encounter the park surrounding the famed Akershus Castle, a cannon-protected fortress that offers romantic views of the Oslo Fjord.
We skip dessert, heading instead for a nightcap at our favorite spot down on Ponce, an Atlanta institution since 1965.
Caviar with crème fraîche on buckwheat blinis, wood-fired foie gras on toast points and crisp black sea bass with truffled potatoes and Champagne sauce were featured on the menu for the 250 guests at Steve and Robert Forbes's nightcap at the "21" Club last night, washed down with sips of Bollinger Grande Année and Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut.
After checking in, we went down to the bar for a nightcap.
After dinner if there are no moonlight treks scheduled, guests gather down in the common area for nightcaps and conversation.
But at 10 10 p.m. Sunday, just as diners savored the last scraps of braised veal cheeks, the word came down: "If you are going to the Clinton nightcap, it's completely full, and the buses are leaving for the Waldorf right now!" In a flash, half the room rushed for the exit as if a fire alarm had rung, skipping not one but two desserts.
