Williamsburg just seriously upped its cocktail cred. Mixologist Richard Boccato, a Sasha Petraske acolyte who owned the short-lived PKNY on the Lower East Side, just opened Fresh Kills on Grand Street, an offshoot of his popular Long Island City haunt, Dutch Kills.

We all know the drill by now–classic cocktails with impeccable provenance, fresh, premium ingredients and perfect proportional wizardry that somehow make you open your eyes and question if you’ve ever truly tasted an old-fashioned or negroni before. The menu here boasts Boccato’s usual puritanical emphasis on drinks from the history books and mania for detail, which means specialty ice and annotations on the historical inspiration behind each menu item.

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