Cuozzo Rant

Steve Cuozzo pays an early visit to Manon in the MePa: "Which Einstein mixologist wrote a cocktail list that doesn't say what's in the drinks, but 'describes their flavors like wine,' as the waitress bravely put it? 'Marshmallow Cloud' involves three kinds of rum and the house 'considers it a well-balanced strawberry daiquiri,' she tells us. Yet a request for a classic daiquiri, a strawberry-free drink, brings the apology, 'We can't make that, we don't have strawberries.'" Cuozzo also notes that the drinks took forever, but they were "killer." [NYP]