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Alix Wall
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Sex on the Beach, left, and a Lemondrop, cocktails of another era on offer at the W Hotel on Thursday and Friday nights.
Drinking a Sex on the Beach while Guns n’ Roses’ “Paradise City” played in the background last week, I was reminded that some cocktails are best left in the past. It was especially hard to appreciate the ridiculously fruity concoction, knowing there was something as tantalizing as a tamarind tequila drink on the other cocktail menu, if at twice the price.
But I was at the W Hotel’s upstairs bar to check out its new #TBT or #FBF (for those blissfully unaware of Instagram and Facebook, these hashtags encourage people to post old photos of themselves in a reference to "Throwback Thursday" or "Flashback Friday") where a DJ spins your favorite tunes from Jane’s Addiction, Blondie and even Toto. (Really? “Let’s listen to Toto!” is a phrase I can’t ever recall hearing.) The W's menu offers drinks and bar bites from that era as well, with prices to match — kinda.
It's printed within a CD jewel case, and offers all those cocktails that you might have liked before you grew up and developed this thing called taste: piña coladas, Long Island ice teas, and kamikaze shots. But even if you’re one of those overly-nostalgic people who long for the days before mixologists and artisan shrubs, do you really want to drink these things now?
