21 Cocktails for Our 21st Birthday

SAVEUR's first issue launched in the summer of 1994, which makes this year our 21st birthday—an occasion that we think certainly merits a cocktail. We asked our staffers about their first legal drinks, and answers ranged from shots of Wild Turkey to amaretto sours to Long Island Iced Teas, with Kamikazes and Lemon Drops extremely well-represented. This time around, we decided to celebrate with a little more sophistication, so we convinced 21 of our bartender friends—like Leo Robitschek of Eleven Madison Park and Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta from The Broken Shaker—to make us a little something. They obliged with a flood of creative cocktail recipes, from dressed-up piña coladas to smoky sherry concoctions to twists on the old fashioned, ensuring that our first of-age sip will be a memorable one. Try one or two—or all 21—of these recipes, and celebrate along with us.