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Eat Cetera: Cocktail Classic, The Hunger, reBar's New Menu

Rachel Maddow must be flipping out: From Friday through Tuesday, the city's already fastidious cocktail culture will be thoroughly explored from top to bottom by the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, a five day geek-out featuring plenty of heavy drinking, as well as workshops on all aspects of cocktail creation, plus a series called "Stories from Behind the Bar," during which owners and bartenders at such establishments as Dutch Kills and Employees Only will finally unload about their perspective from the sober side of the bar. By Wednesday you'll never want another cocktail. Some of the events are sold out, but there are still a lot of fun-sounding happenings, such as the rum "Soul Shake-Down" at Painkiller, the History of Moonshine with the Legendary Junior Johnson and the Craft Distilling of Today, and Death in the Afternoon, which takes place not in Manhattan but at Williamsburg's Huckleberry Bar, where an array of absinthe cocktails will be served in their back garden on Sunday. Honestly, there is an overabundance of events to choose from, so stock up on Emergen-C and peruse the whole list at your leisure. — Gothamist

Published May 11, 2010

Modified May 13, 2010

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Click on the images for details on this week's Manhattan Cocktail Classic, former Top Chef contestant Camille Becerra's pop-up restaurant The Hunger, and reBar's new chef and new Spring menu.