Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Classics’ comeback

Feb. 23, 2018

The Old-Fashioned, Manhattan, sidecar and other 19th- and 20th-century staples are making a comeback on cocktail lists.

Houlihan’s

Feb. 23, 2018

Houlihan’s carves its own block ice to create oversized cubes, and it infuses ice with other ingredients to signaturize some of its cocktails.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Claim Jumper

Feb. 23, 2018

Bartenders balance the Bee’s Knees cocktail with the same three ingredients that made it famous during Prohibition: gin, lemon juice and honey.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Honeycut

Feb. 23, 2018

The Los Angeles concept offered the Deadly Fog, crafted with gin, cognac, rum, orgeat syrup made by steeping avocado pits, and orange and lemon stock as a mixer.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Drinks with a healthy twist

Feb. 23, 2018

Bartenders turned into bar chefs when they started borrowing ingredients from restaurant kitchens to craft fresh, culinary-focused cocktails.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Seasons 52

Feb. 23, 2018

Farm-to-glass is the cocktail version of the farm-to-table trend.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Parlor Pizza Bar

Feb. 23, 2018

The Chicago pizza concept batches sangria, margaritas, punch and cold-brew coffee cocktails to serve from its taps.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Lower-alcohol drinks

Feb. 23, 2018

Winetails and beertails—cocktails crafted with those lower-proof libations—are gaining ground on menus.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Genghis Grill

Feb. 23, 2018

Genghis Grill lightens up the tequila-based paloma by adding lower-proof sake to its Honey Peach Paloma.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends