cocktail

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Doris, a Brooklyn cocktail bar, also is striving for fan unity - sort of.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

Amanda Friedman has projected college football games at cocktail hours, coordinated with DJs to make score announcements and created cards asking guests to please refrain from watching a match during speeches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Caprese martinis have started appearing on cocktail menus everywhere, joining the ongoing evolution of the martini from simple cocktail to culinary playground.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

If not, we’d go to Musso & Frank Grill to get a shrimp cocktail and steak dinner.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

And if one were just too pathetic, forlorn, and unremembered, one could always scrounge up some decade-old, generic canned fruit cocktail from the depths of the basement pantry.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick