Lauren Viera

A manhattan is a manhattan is a manhattan. Except when it's not. Last Monday, the origins of one of the most classic of cocktails were shaken and stirred (ad nauseum,...

You missed it. 11:11 on 11/11 was hours ago. Lucky for you, there's plenty of time to toast the veterans in your life this evening with a namesake cocktail. The...

Even when local drink slingers think they've invented something new behind the bar, chances are New Yorkers have already claimed it. So be it, says Mike Ryan, head bartender at...

File this one under regional drinking. Today's cocktail is the Brown Mumbler, one of the debut drinks mixed by the gentlemen behind the traveling Hornswaggler Arts bar. (More on them...

There's a lot going on this weekend in the wonderful world of cocktails. Today we welcome the first Friday @ 5 of autumn. Naturally, we should toast the change of...

A new food truck hit Chicago streets today with perhaps the most virtuous victuals of them all. It's Zullo's Food Truck cranking out hot calzones. Adriana Marzullo—of zeppole, pizza and...

Here at Friday @ 5, we're no judge of the context in which you consume your cocktails. This writer, for one, happens to enjoy mixing a good drink while watching...

It's a sad day, this last official Friday of summer. Once the weather turns, many of us instinctively abandon our lighter spirits and turn to the dark side. And although...