And so when New York cocktail wunderkind Don Lee finally arrived, we began the night.

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One of the first references to this cocktail was published in New York in 1896 in "Stuart's Fancy Drinks, " which refers to a Marguerite Cocktail a dash of orange bitters, French vermouth and Plymouth gin.

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At a recent cocktail party at New York's Connoisseur's Antique Fair, Manolo Blahnik-heeled women cooed over brightly colored and intricately patterned Afghan rugs.

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They met in 1993 when she was studying for her MBA at Harvard and was invited to a cocktail party at his New York apartment.

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The unassuming, speakeasy-esque cocktail bar, located in the back room of landmark restaurant Cole's French Dip and which features a rotating list of only five cocktails, lost out in previous years at the annual cocktail industry award to New York bars Death and Co in 2010 and Employees Only in 2011.

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They're having a cocktail party on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday night, and then Steinhardt and others will ring the opening bell the next morning.

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The Varnish, brainchild of LA nightlife impresario Cedd Moses and renowned bartenders Eric Alperin and Sasha Petraske, both from Little Branch in New York, has been the go-to spot for cocktail enthusiasts, foodies and off-duty bartenders since it opened in 2009.

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