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The Best Jungle Bird Cocktail Recipe, According to Experts


The Best Jungle Bird Cocktail Recipe, According to Experts

This Jungle Bird was prepared by the bar team at Rockwell Place in Brooklyn and was the winning recipe in our Blind tasting 2024 of the drink. Judges praised the texture and body of the drink, as well as the balance between the cocktail’s three central pillars: rum, red bitters and pineapple. As Punch editor-in-chief […]

Jungle Birds Jungle Bird Cocktail Recipe


Jungle Birds Jungle Bird Cocktail Recipe

Third place in our Blind tasting Jungle Bird 2024 went to New York’s aptly named Jungle Bird. The bar’s house recipe forgoes blackstrap entirely, using a blend of Don Q pineapple rum and Smith & Cross Jamaican rum instead. Add to that the expected Campari, lime and pineapple juice, and the unorthodox pineapple liqueur. Juicy […]

Book clubs are making a comeback – but modern readers are bringing their own twists


Book clubs are making a comeback – but modern readers are bringing their own twists

Reading bestsellers one after another in bars? Combining food and fiction? Reading science fiction in silence over Zoom? These aren’t typical book clubs, but they offer exactly the unexpected plot twist that modern readers are looking for. With the rise of celebrity book clubs and the popularity of #BookTok, a hashtag used on TikTok to […]