{"id":712,"date":"2009-02-23T23:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2009\/02\/drinky-linky-au-revoir-lenell.html"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:49:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:49:33","slug":"drinky-linky-au-revoir-lenell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Drinky Linky: Au Revoir, LeNell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vidiot\/3301998826\/\" title=\"LeNell&#39;s by Vidiot, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LeNell&#39;s\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3462\/3301998826_818aeef019.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>The above photo is of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenells.com\/index.php\">LeNell&#39;s<\/a>, looking a little empty, about half an hour before the store (or, rather, the current incarnation of the store) closed down.&#0160; It&#39;s really more of an <em>au revoir<\/em> than a goodbye, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenells.com\/events\/events.php\">after a sojourn in Yurp and elsewhere<\/a>, LeNell will be back in Brooklyn (despite my entreaties for her to move her business to Queens) and continuing her search for acceptable real estate with which to re-open the best liquor store in the city. We&#39;ll miss her like hell, though, till she&#39;s back.&#0160; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveur.com\/article\/Drink\/Lady-Bourbon-Leaves-Brooklyn\">Robert Simonson interviewed LeNell<\/a> for <em>Saveur<\/em> a few weeks back.)<\/p>\n<p>Also worth checking out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an interesting, sensible, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/03\/AR2009020300495.html?referrer=emailarticle\"><em>WaPo<\/em> article on the evolution of the Martini<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>St. John Frizell, an amazing bartender in his own right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ediblemanhattan.com\/content\/index.php\/issue-2\/liquidassets-novdec08.htm\">traces the mixological bloodlines of PDT&#39;s Jim Meehan<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ohgo.sh\/archive\/cocchi-americano-kina-lillet-blanc\/\">Jay Hepburn suggests Cocchi Americano as a substitute for Kina Lillet<\/a>. I gotta pick some of this stuff up; I&#39;ve seen the label and have been intrigued;<\/li>\n<li>Ooooh! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcademics.com\/2009\/02\/nyc-meet-pimms-number-three.html\">Camper English spots Pimm&#39;s No. 3 Cup<\/a> at a Manhattan bar; and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keens.com\/More\/Upcoming\/Pre-ProhibitionCocktailParty2.html\">this Pre-Prohibition Cocktail Party<\/a> at Keen&#39;s looks very interesting. DeGroff! Wondrich! Pacult!&#0160; (I hope to attend this and report back.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also coming up, soon&#39;s I get back from vacation, reviews of Pimm&#39;s No. 3, Cointreau Noir, VeeV Acai Spirit, Pernod Absinthe, the new Noilly Prat formula, and whatever else various spirits producers (and generous friends) have been kind enough to send me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above photo is of LeNell&#39;s, looking a little empty, about half an hour before the store (or, rather, the current incarnation of the store) closed down.&#0160; It&#39;s really more of an au revoir than a goodbye, because after a sojourn in Yurp and elsewhere, LeNell will be back in Brooklyn (despite my entreaties for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}