Last summer we got hooked on Salut Kitchen Bar’s Lavender Lemon Fizz, a refreshing spin on the classic gin fizz cocktail that goes for $8-$12. One look at the drink, served in a frosty, glacial ...

The mint, lavender and lemon seem to hitch themselves in different ways to each of the spirits. As the flow in and out, you get waves of tartness, dryness, earthiness, and sweet.

The lemon drop cocktail was invented in the 1970s. As is the case with many cocktails, the origin is a bit murky but some say it was invented in a San Francisco bar by a man named Norman Jay ...