Where to go for $10 martinis around Albany, Schenectady, Hudson and Kingston. Part II.

The Miseducation of Johnny Osborne and his Night School crew. Bringing pizzas, cocktails, Deep Fried Beer and Cosmic Bowling to the streets of Athens, N.Y.

Nate Gebhard, official Dean of Cocktails at Night School in Athens, N.Y., talks to The Dishing about theater, growing up in Minnesota + crafting cocktails for a small-town pizza parlor.

Aaron Wilson, co-owner of The Larkin Hi-Fi and Herbie’s Burgers, talks Japanese denim, Martha Stewart, and the scoop on where Herbie’s will open next. The Albany bar owner uses Asian flavors as inspiration at his Tokyo-style record bar. 

Where to go for $10 martinis around Albany, Saratoga, Troy, Hudson. Part I.

Aaron Wilson puts phở  on the cocktail list at The Larkin Hi-Fi Record Bar in Albany’s Center Square.

First set alight and then cooled off with aloe and ice, “Sunburn” is an off-menu cocktail at The Hill, in Troy, a rebrand of The Hill at Muza by new owner Jonathan Blanchard.

Spotlight on a Pour: “Midnight Mirage” by bar manager, Nate Gebhard, at Night School in Athens.