Drink from the Nip

Bars in NYC will do anything to be a little different…be it a secret entrance, drinks lit on fire, or beverages littered with gold flakes. They’re even thinking outside the box when it comes to what they serve the liquor in. The Back Room tried to create a speakeasy feel by serving drinks in tea cups – a throwback to clandestine drinking during The Prohibition. Not ideal for a nice glass of single malt but at least it’s a cup!

It gets worse…Leave it to the French to incorporate drinking with sucking. Some French guy, inspired by Refuge des Fondus – a spot in Paris that serves drinks in baby bottles so as to avoid a tax on wine served in stemware – is trying to replicate this phenomenon in NYC. His creation, La Cave des Fondus, which opens this week in Nolita, will serve beer and wine in baby bottles. That’s right, the same ones you drank out of when you graduated from your mothers teet. Come on guys, even for the French this is pathetic and kinda disgusting.