Not an Adonis

Sisters Rory and Meave McAuliffe are behind the widely anticipated new California restaurant Rory’s Place, situated in an old theater on the western edge of the tiny town’s main drag.

 

Among the sisters’ low-alcohol offerings, this is their answer to a Manhattan, “smooth and refined, but using a mix of aromatized wines.” Rich simple sugar is two parts sugar to one part water, which “adds texture rather than flavor, but any lingering sweetness is cut by Amaro Sfumato’s deep, bitter woodsmoke.”