• Three bells for Distrito! It’s elevated and nuanced Mexican food, and Craig LaBan lavishes praise on practically every single element on his dining experience there.
• Two bargain rieslings from this weekend’s Drink feature. Both a “classic take” (“a pretty nose of honey and beeswax, with juicy peach on the palate and a balanced finish of citrus pith and acidity”) and a drier wine (“a lemony whip-crack of tartness, a crab-apple crunch of pippin green followed by a minerally flare of coriander and white pepper”) are profiled.
• A look at the recently Prohibition Taproom. The sign, which reads nothing but BAR is a luminous neon beacon, pointing the way to the entrance. As Rick Nichols puts it, oOn a commercial strip, who’d ever notice it? But here in the dark, not a mouse stirring (well, maybe a mouse) in the Loft District, it is something of a beacon and a safe harbor, as straightforward and direct as that hospital H.” The place also has presentable looks, good beer, and good grub.
