T
ony Sachs is a lifelong New Yorker and a barfly since the age of 18, when he first stared down a bartender and said, “Do I look like I NEED an ID?” (He did.) Tony owned the late, lamented record store NYCD on the Upper West Side of Manhattan from 1993-2005, and has been writing about music and anything else that suits his fancy for more than a decade. He’s written about spirits and cocktails for the Huffington Post since 2007.
Tony has traipsed through Hawaii in search of the perfect Mai Tai, wandered the shores of Bermuda to find the secrets behind the Dark N’ Stormy, and hunted the perfect margarita in Mexico. One of his favorite pastimes is going to the vintage watering holes that still dot Manhattan and communing with the spirits of imbibers past. He has spent $300 on a vintage one-ounce bottle of Abbott’s Bitters and is not ashamed to admit it; one of his greatest regrets is that he wasted so much of the ’90s on vodka martinis.
