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6 days ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
Welcome to the latest edition of “On a Toot!,” a feature in which I try to remember some of the liquid highlights of the week, and other highlights in general. “On a Toot!”—which made its debut on March 10, 2023 (accept no imitations!)—will only run on Fridays and will only be available to paid subscribers. We hope you enjoy it.
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1 week ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Mary Murray |Robert Simonson
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1 week ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
Side Hustle Bar in the Nomad Hotel, London. Welcome to the twelfth installment in “Regular Recipes,” a new feature accessible only to Bar Regular subscribers at The Mix. “Regular Recipes” features exceptional original cocktail formulas from the best cocktail bars and most talented cocktail bartenders in the world. Unless otherwise noted, these recipes ar…
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2 weeks ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
I first met Laurie Woolever, the author of the new best-selling memoir Care and Feeding, in 2012 at Donovan’s Pub in Woodside, Queens. She was there to attend a gathering of food and drink writers I had put together. I knew she was the personal assistant of food-world eminence Anthony Bourdain. For all that glamour-by-proxy positioning, she seemed very pleasant and approachable.
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2 weeks ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
A hot sausage topped with fried fish cake. Checking in on a longstanding institution that has fed generations of Philadelphians.
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2 weeks ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
Welcome to the eleventh installment in “Regular Recipes,” a new feature accessible only to Bar Regular subscribers at The Mix. “Regular Recipes” features exceptional original cocktail formulas from the best cocktail bars and most talented cocktail bartenders in the world. Unless otherwise noted, these recipes are of recent vintage, taken from menus that…
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3 weeks ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
On April 10, 1925, Charles Scribner & Sons published The Great Gatsby, a 200-page parable of Jazz Age America by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It received respectable reviews and sold under 20,000 copies. But its reputation grew steadily, particularly after Fitzgerald’s death in 1940 and the subsequent reevaluation of his work. Today, it is among the most widely read works of fiction of all time, and is a regular contender for that elusive title: the Great American Novel.
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3 weeks ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
Eng’s Chinese Restaurant opened in Kingston, NY, in 1927. In March 2000, when the Covid shutdown came, it closed its perfectly preserved, mid-20th-century dining room. For five years, Eng’s did only a take-out business. Last month, however, the dining room triumphantly returned. Since…Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Mix with Robert Simonson to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Cocktails and Culture Cocktails and Culture
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3 weeks ago | 
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Cocktail Smash! The Dr. Green at Sip & Guzzle. There’s been much “research” going on at The Mix lately. A flurry of free-lance assignments sent us out into the teeth of the New York winter to see what the latest crop of Gotham cocktail bars had to offer in terms of drinks and bar snacks. It was such a crowded hour that I didn’t have much time to report …
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1 month ago | 
robertsimonson.substack.com | Robert Simonson
Last week, I wrote an article for Eater New York about some of the best new bar food in New York City. Aside from a long-form feature on tiki historian Jeff “Beachbum” Berry in 2014, assigned by then features editor Helen Rosner (now at The New Yorker), it was my first piece for Eater in 12 years. My second-to-last piece article for Eater was in 2013. It was the final edition of a column called “Who Goes There?”From 2006 to 2013, I wrote a pseudonymous, New York-centric blog called Lost City.