first taste whether a cocktail is well crafted. “One sip should give you everything you need to know, because the drink should be cohesive,s dining editor. “Some cocktails, they’re too strong and need to sit and dilute for a bit, or the ice cubes are too small and melt too fast and the drink becomes watery.” That’s not the case with the 20 that Cavanaugh selected as the city’s best in this month’s cover story (page 54): “All of the drinks are good from the first sip to the last. The amount of thought put into them is very clear.”
