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Article: SIDE DISH Classic cocktails the focus at distil
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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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 ...