Beach Bonfire is no longer on the Nectar menu. The fig infusion that gave it its character is no longer being made, which means we genuinely cannot offer it right now, even to the guests who still ask. Some cocktails leave the menu because they stop selling and nobody misses them. Beach Bonfire did not leave that way, and it is worth being honest about the difference, because the honest version says something about how menu decisions actually get made behind the bar, and it i

Chemistry Lessons is no longer on the Nectar menu. This article remains because the story behind it matters more to us than most things we have written about, and because I suspect it will find its way back onto a future menu eventually. There is one cocktail that, more than any other, made me believe we could actually do this. Not the first cocktail Panos and I ever made together. Not the most technically impressive thing that has come out of the bar since we opened. Chemist