Before we say farewell (or is it good riddance?) to 2020, we’d like to note our favorite new Manhattan bar opening of the year: Torch & Crown Brewing Company, located at 6 Vandam Street in West Soho.  We look forward to returning to Torch & Crown numerous times in 2021 and beyond.

December 5, 2020 marks the 87th anniversary of the end of U.S. Prohibition. On this date in 1933, Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution (achieving the required 75% of states to approve the amendment). This ratification overturned the 18th Amendment, which outlawed alcohol in the United States. So, how will you be marking the anniversary today? We wish a pub crawl were in the offing; maybe this time next year.