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Fall in Love With These New York City Fall Cocktails
October 18, 2024, 6:58.31 pm ET

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As autumn unfolds, NYC’s bars are heating up, crafting seasonal cocktails that celebrate the rich, warming flavors of fall.

Agency of Record (118 E 40th St, New York)

This sophisticated variation on an Old Fashioned is called Target Audience. It combines smoky wood-grilled peaches, urfa biber, peated scotch, and peach liqueur, delivering a unique balance of smoky and fruity flavors.

Clover Club (210 Smith St, Brooklyn)

Brooklyn’s Clover Club brings a fall twist with cocktails like the Maple Maltz Fizz with Butter-washed rum blend, acid adjusted apple juice, maple, malted condensed milk, egg white, and black walnut bitters; and the Bonfire Old Fashioned with Bulleit 10 year, Michter's Toasted Barrel bourbon, vanilla, demerara, Braulio, brûléed marshmallows.

Dear Irving on Hudson (310 W 40th St, New York)

Perched high above the city, Dear Irving on Hudson offers Creole Rhapsody with cognac, terroir volcanique rhum, absinthe, and fleur bitters. Dear Irving calls it a Sazerac variation "to sip and savor while the leaves fall outside. It’s oh so cozy in here."


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Brooklyn Kura (34 34th St, Brooklyn)

Brooklyn Kura's Onibaba cocktail mixes seven-year kome shochu with Japanese curry, sweet red bean, and pear, offering an autumnal drink with a uniquely Japanese twist.

Legacy Records (517 W 38th St, New York)

Bartender Sam Allan’s new produce-driven fall cocktails at Legacy Records offer innovative blends that spotlight fresh ingredients from NYC’s greenmarkets like Tequila & Apple. The apples are Poached in Tequila and then blended. The solids are strained out. The mixture is then blended with sugar, shaken with lime and served over a rock in a rocks glass.

Patent Pending (49 W 27th St, New York)

Patent Pending’s Hit By a Taxi is a rich and aromatic cocktail, blending Armagnac, Japanese whisky, sweet vermouth, Pu'erh tea, curacao, and star anise—making it an ideal choice for cool fall nights.


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Chama Mama (121 Montague St, Brooklyn)

The Autumn in Georgia features Chama Mama brandy, pumpkin spice syrup, fresh lemon, ginger, and a silky saba foamer, encapsulating the warm, spicy essence of the season in every sip.

Sleepy Hollow (610 5th Ave, New York)

At Sleepy Hollow’s Autumn Harvest experience, sip on Ichabod’s Brew, a fall cocktail crafted with dry cider, pumpkin, and cinnamon, inspired by the classic Halloween tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

The Bronze Owl (52 W 33rd St, New York)

Bartender Max Green crafts a trio of fall cocktails, including the Blood Pumpkin with Haku Vodka, fresh pumpkin, and blood orange, the Late Harvest featuring Wild Turkey Rye, and Escape to Milan—an exotic blend with Gardener Gin and Amaro Montenegro.

The Outdoor Bar at The Tin Building (96 South St, New York)

At Jean-Georges Vongerichten's The Outdoor Bar at The Tin Building, the Green Apple Bourbon Mule combines Basil Hayden bourbon with green apple and lemon sage for a refreshing fall mule. Also, check out the Bourbon Fig Cooler with fig whiskey and thyme.

Whether you’re in the mood for rich whiskeys, fruity concoctions, or warm spiced flavors, these drinks will bring you the comfort of fall.


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