At the tail-end of Covid, after most of us had gained weight, lost sanity, or misplaced our purpose, Emily Sundberg wrote a masterpiece: “Wellness Is Dead. Long Live the Martini.” The martini craze of 2022 was a “complete blowback from the pandemic,” Toby Cecchini, the owner of Brooklyn’s Long Island Bar, told Sundberg. “I watch these kids hammering martinis and I’m like, good lord,” he said.
Nightlife and the classic martini made a surprising resurgence post-Covid. One self-proclaimed party girl told Sundberg at the time:
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