Why This Hangover Cure Is a Staple in One Expert's Home Bar
Nick Bennett, head bartender at Danny Meyer's Porchlight, gives us a tour of his personal liquor stash.
In 2015, Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group announced the opening of Porchlight, its first stand-alone bar, with a promise to serve up high-class cocktails and down-to-earth vibes. “We have higher aspirations than just being a neighborhood bar,” one executive told the New York Times. “But we have to be as welcoming as a neighborhood bar.”
Hiring Nick Bennett as head bartender at the Manhattan spot took the company a long way toward achieving that goal. Though Bennett established his mixological bonafides at venues such as Booker and Dax and Amor Y Amargo, he is still very much the young man who began his career cracking open Budweisers at his uncle’s dive back in Sag Harbor, on Long Island. His quick and hearty laugh is a key professional skill.