Give It a SHOT!
“WINE SHOT $4” WAS PRINTED ON THE MENU.
I was seated at Shuggie’s in San Francisco, a new pizza joint where cool kids munch on grandma-style pies and sip natural wines. I thought it might be a misprint. But there wasn’t a whiskey or tequila bottle to be found. So, wait, this place was serving shots of …vino? In fact, yes. A round arrived in little pineapple glasses at a nearby table and, well, shots of wine were thrown back.
In New York at Double Chicken Please—one of the more high-minded new cocktail bars in the city, I was shocked to see four shots on the menu. When I sat at the bar at Hawksmoor, a lively yet squarely adult steakhouse in Manhattan, I lost count of the trays of shots that
