Last Friday night I was passing through Tribeca and stopped into Ward III, “NY’s Original Bespoke Cocktail Bar”. Wall-to-wall cocktail drinkers, attentive, expert bartenders who mixed the dirtiest martini I’ve ever tasted (!) and vintage cocktails served in old fashioned coupette glasses, Ward III opened a few years ago and is still going strong. It’s newest establishment, The Rum House, opened recently in Midtown.

