Drink

A sleek bar in the Seaport District that highlights expertly crafted cocktails
Noteworthy for: John Gertsen was such a skilled mixologist at No.9 that his boss set him up with his own bar to celebrate creativity and harmony in the cocktail arts.

Tipple of choice: Tell the bartender what you like, and she'll surpass your expectations, delivering a concoction that hits all your sweet spots.
At this nightspot, three connecting U-shaped oak bars invite drinkers to watch mixologists select the right notes to be combined into artfully balanced cocktails. There's no drink menu, so it's best to name your base liquor and have them fashion something for you.

The bar's minimalist design even hides the bottles so that what's on view are the prep stations, like performance art sets. Observe as one bartender harvests from the garden of potted herbs for leaves to be hand-muddled. Another squeezes various citrus halves. Naturally, the most theatrical and deadly might shatter a fifty-pound block of ice with her favorite ice pick, just one of many tools of an expert bartender.