Today, we’ve got a smattering of pieces — from Substack, New York Times’ T Magazine, Grub Street’s “Year I Ate New York,” and a don’t-miss from the Charleston Post and Courier.

“The city has changed an awful lot during the pandemic and we’ve lost many good bars, as well as the drinks in which they specialized….But New York still has plenty of great watering holes left, thank heaven. Here are the cocktails you should order when you get to them, in alphabetical order by cocktail name,” from The Mix with Robert Simonson on Substack in “The New York 50: The Most Iconic Cocktails in New York.”