Drinks Spot Amor y Amargo Branches Out With a New Cocktail Outpost | Eater NY

"Chef-owner Ravi DeRossi — with partners Drew Brady and Sother Teague — has relocated his Michelin Bib Gourmand natural-wine bar and pasta spot to the ground level beneath his second-floor restaurant Avant Garden at 95 Avenue A (at East Sixth Street), reopening Tuesday, April 22; the venue was formerly at 155 Avenue B. The concept remains vegan and builds on a Southern Italian menu inspired by Brady’s grandmother from Palermo, with dishes such as cacio e pepe made with spaghetti-like bigoli, tagliatelle with lemon-nori vegan butter and broccoli rabe, and new super-crisp pinsas like the Calabrian (figs, pistachio, and watercress) and the spring pie (zucchini, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, spring onions, feta) from chef Pedro Allende; late-night bites such as arancini and fried gnocchi may also appear. Cocktail duties are overseen by the group's Amor y Amargo team — which itself relocated and returned to its original spot — and will focus here on shaken cocktails (the original outpost emphasized stirred drinks); Sother Teague leads the cocktail menu, with drinks contributed by Teague, Noah Green, and Bruce Shultz, including Amor-style cocktails like the Cavalletta (a spin on the Grasshopper with the herbal genepy) and the You’ve Come a Long Way (an amaro grappa sour). The wine program comprises roughly 200 natural and organic pours, including a house Overthrow Hospitality label, Alphabet Soop, a chilled red blend. Dinner service runs until 11 p.m.; current hours are midnight on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends." - Melissa McCart