Tastiest oddball cocktail: The Metamorphosis at Eastern Standard
As any cocktail cognoscento can tell you, Eastern Standard (528 Comm Ave, Boston, 617.532.9100) has, along with No. 9 Park, one of the two most gifted, scholarly teams of mixologists in Boston. Besides evangelizing Golden Age cocktails invented a century before the current tragic mania for insipid flavored-vodka cocktails, the people at Eastern Standard also create originals like the Metamorphosis. Building on a typically new-to-you foundation - Becherovka, a sweetly-spiced potable bitters from the Czech Republic - fresh lemon juice, honey syrup, clover, and Kelvin-scale chilling produce a bracing, not-too-sweet, and possibly healthful potion. (After all, bitters are practically herbal medicine.) Na zdrave!
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