Help keep Salon independent

Zak Kostro

Bartender pouring a drink (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Noticing your favorite spirit is absent from liquor store and bar shelves? You’re not alone

Zak Kostro
Two friends toast with to-go strawberry mojitos in front of a bar. (Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture alliance via Getty Images)

New York’s bars, restaurants and distillers say they’re suffering from the abrupt end of to-go cocktails

Zak Kostro
Young woman choosing wine (Getty Images/Aja Koska)

For liquor stores, sales surged during the pandemic. What will happen when drinkers go back to bars?

Zak Kostro
A barmaid prepares beer for a customer in a Pub (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ravaged by the pandemic, bars and restaurants face a reckoning — and a chance to revamp the industry

Zak Kostro
Bartender women working with protective face mask and surgical gloves in night bar. (Getty Images)

How will bars survive in a post-pandemic world?

Zak Kostro