Cocktail Supplies

[jogoode]

Hi All,

Where do you guys go to get your cocktail supplies? Can I get bitters, flavored syrups (preferably Monin brand), and jiggers in one place?

[slkinsey]

Go to Chelsea Market. You can get the flavored syrups ar Buon Italia and you can get jiggers, Hawthorne & julep strainers, mixing cups, pint glasses, stirring spoons, muddlers (albeit not very good ones), etc. at the "Bowery" store also in Chelsea Market. For fancier and antique barware, eBay is your friend.

WRT bitters, you can get Angostura bitters anywhere. Peychaud's and Gary's Orange Bitters you can buy from Audrey at Pegu Club. Fee Brothers, I'm not sure where you can buy that at retail in NYC. The other bitters you may read about in these forums (Stoughtons, Abbot's, Hess House, etc.)... most of them aren't for sale. You have to know someone.

[jogoode]

WRT bitters, you can get Angostura bitters anywhere. 

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Any supermarket?

[slkinsey]

Just about, yea. Angostura bitters have wide availability, and should be on the shelf of any well-stocked grocery store. Bodegas and neighborhood delis are another story, of course.

[jogoode]

Go to Chelsea Market.  You can get the flavored syrups ar Buon Italia...

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No dice. I could only find a few syrups there: orange, almond, and a couple others. I'm looking for ginger and apple.

[lambretta76]

The Pegu Club rec for bitters is spot on - $5 a bottle for Peychaud's is great. And if you sit at the bar - free cocktail recipes!

[slkinsey]

Go to Chelsea Market.  You can get the flavored syrups ar Buon Italia...

No dice. I could only find a few syrups there: orange, almond, and a couple others. I'm looking for ginger and apple.

Apple syrup?! Feh!

Anyway... try Zabar's. You can likely get jiggers and whatnot upstairs, and they heve plenty of syrups downstairs.

For ginger syrup, I think you're better off making it for yourself to order.

The only bought syrup I think is really worth having is oregat.

[donbert]

Fee Brothers, I'm not sure where you can buy that at retail in NYC.

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Went on a hunt for them a few months back and tracked them down through their distributor. Only one place for Fee Brothers in NYC, LeNell's. It's a bit of a trek to get out to Red Hook but totally worth it. LeNell has the most amazing selection of bourbons and other artisanal liquors. She's also the most knowledgeable person on all things alcohol.

I'll post the next time I go out there if anyone wants me to pick up some bitters for them.

[Mazzer]

Just to update an old thread for informational purposes: LeNell's is (temporarily?) defunct, but you can find Fee Brothers bitters at Kalustyan on Lexington near 28th or at Spuyten Duyvil Grocery in the Williamsburg mini-mall off of Bedford Ave.

[Steamtrain]

Just to update an old thread for informational purposes: LeNell's is (temporarily?) defunct, but you can find Fee Brothers bitters at Kalustyan on Lexington near 28th or at Spuyten Duyvil Grocery in the Williamsburg mini-mall off of Bedford Ave.

to support the kalustyan report

Kalustyan's carries Fee Brother's bitters, regan's orange and peychaud's.

[slkinsey]

Kalustyan's also has a number of Bitter Truth and Bittermen's bitters (or they did the last time I was there).

[David A. Goldfarb]

Brooklyn Kitchen in their new location at 100 Frost St. in Williamsburg now carries Fee Bros. bitters.