Article: SIDE DISH Classic cocktails the focus at distil

Part apothecary, part experimental kitchen -- a craft cocktail lounge is planned for downtown, and two of the region's noted muddlers and shakers are involved in it.

Named distil, the lounge's specialty will be pre-Prohibition and other classic cocktails with a modern twist at 722 N. Milwaukee St., said Nick Kosevich. It's the previous site of the nightclub Three. Kosevich is a managing partner along with Noah Heaney, and the owner is Michael Polaski.

So, the rye-and-bitters Sazerac -- with origins in 19th-century New Orleans -- might be updated with fennel pollen syrup rather than simple syrup.

Kosevich is late of Town Talk Diner in Minneapolis, where he was voted best bartender in 2008 in ...

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