A Few Things That Make a Cocktail Worth Ordering

There's nothing mysterious about a good cocktail. Most of what makes one enjoyable comes down to balance — whether the sweetness, the acidity, and the spirit are all in proportion with each other. When that's off, you feel it pretty quickly. Too sweet and the drink becomes heavy. Too boozy and it stops being fun to sip. When it's right, you just enjoy it without really thinking about it.

Ingredients matter, but it's less about price point than people assume. A well-chosen, mid-range spirit used correctly will make a better drink than an expensive one used in the wrong way. What matters more is whether the components actually work together.

Menu descriptions are something small that makes a real difference. If someone reads a cocktail name and has no sense of what it tastes like, they'll usually just order whatever sounds familiar. We try to write our menu so people feel like they can actually choose something; not just guess.

None of this is groundbreaking. It's just the stuff that tends to get overlooked when bars are more focused on being interesting than on being good. We'd rather make something you want to come back to than something you take a photo of once.

That's roughly what we're going for, anyway.