A TOAST TO DEATH &CO

Ask any true cocktail enthusiast to name the top ten bars in the world, and Death & Co will surely make the grade. Opened on New Year’s Eve 2006/2007 in Manhattan’s East Village, it quickly became the standard-bearer for the newly emerging classic cocktail and mixology renaissance, which was given a massive boost when a quirky new show called Mad Men premiered later that year.

Death & Co has since opened equally alluring locations in Denver and Los Angeles, and has spawned a blue-chip hospitality group called Gin & Luck, along with two essential cocktail, which won a James Beard award, and —which has now been joined by a third volume capturing the current cocktail zeitgeist, titled by co-founders David Kaplan and Alex Day with author Nick Fauchald.