The Last Pour · Filed at 5:00pm

The evening habit, before dinner.

One bottle worth buying. One cocktail worth building. One bar worth walking to. And a pairing tied to what you're already eating. Filed by whichever of the five voices is on tonight.

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Cadence

Daily at 5:00pm local. Weekends optional. Short enough to finish on the walk home from work.

Length

Four picks. Roughly ninety seconds to read. No preamble, no affiliate footer, no house voice.

Byline

Rotates through the five columnists. You'll know within a sentence which one is on tonight. Meet them →

A sample
“Eating El Farolito tonight? Chill a bottle of Ameztoi Txakoli — salt cuts through the crema — and hold a second stop at Trick Dog four blocks up 20th. A mezcal Negroni. Nothing else.”
— The Somm, filed 5:00pm