BEDTIME STORIES

Will Benedetto, Cocktail Curator, In Good Company Hospitality

• .75oz House Spirits Krogstad Aquavit
• .75 oz Ilegal Mezcal Joven
• .25 oz Green Chartreuse
• .5oz Velvet Falernum
• 1 oz of Butterfly pea flower tea powder floated on top

Combine aquavit, mezcal, Green Chartreuse, and Velvet Falernum in a stirring vessel and stir with ice until properly diluted. Pour over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Using a bars poon gently pour 1 oz of butterfly pea flower tea over top.

Says Benedetto: “In 1994 Madonna released her 6th album Bedtime Stories. This album always stuck out to me as the first where Madonna was really herself the whole way through. She allows herself to be more exposed than previously and even collaborates with Björk on a track. The cocktail is a wild one. Like the album it’s all over the place. A stirred and exceptionally boozy cocktail, this is a great one to end your night. Visually the idea was to make it look sort of like the outer-body experience of dreaming while asleep – booze in a glass with an ice cube viewed through a surreal lens with an alien-like green hue and a purple halo. As you pick the drink up and set it down again the drink begins to blend but rather than just homogenizing, the butterfly pea flower reacts with Chartreuse miraculously creating a bright red.”

 

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After dinner, we recommend a rooftop bar to toast to Broadway as you blow a kiss towards Times Square! Head to the Refinery Rooftop on top of the Refinery hotel for gorgeous views, a little bubbly and maybe a dessert to sweeten the end to your evening.

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The Gin Tub (Park Avenue Tavern)

1.5 oz of Spring 44 Gin
0.5 oz of rosemary syrup
1 oz of pomegranate juice
Dash of club soda

Add all ingredients except garnishes to a cocktail shaker, add ice, and shake until well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a sprig of rosemary and a few pomegranate seeds.

 

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• Refinery Rooftop

If the Refinery Hotel’s bar becomes more touristy during the summer months, it remains a highly respected address for locals who want to get high – the time for an aperitif. The cocktails are neat, the plates are a la carte are ideal for sharing a few bites with loved ones and the view of the Empire State Building is priceless. Or so, but it is reasonable so you would be wrong to deprive yourself. We stop there during our passages on the fifth, and the disappointment has never arrived.

Refinery Rooftop
63 W 38th St
New York, NY 10018

 

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Summer’s not over yet

Mother Nature can’t make us give up summer if we just keep doing summery things. It may not be beach weather this weekend, but you should still wear your seaside best to Refinery Rooftop’s Endless Summer Party with a cookout by Swingbelly’s BBQ, plus Montauk beer, a DJ and plenty of last-minute rooftop Insta opps. Your ticket includes one plate of barbecue and two drinks. Sept. 16, noon-3 p.m., 63 W. 38th St., $25,universe.com/rrtendlesssummer

 

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