Gin-Gin Mule (cocktail)

Picture a Mojito and a Moscow Mule meeting halfway, with gin doing the talking. Audrey Saunders created it in 2000 at Beacon in New York, the same bartender behind the Old Cuban a year later. Gin, lime, mint and ginger beer make it long, spicy and very refreshing, and the gin's botanicals keep it more interesting than either parent. It is the one to order when you want something tall and cold that still tastes like a proper cocktail. Saunders's original used muddled fresh ginger, so a bar that makes its own ginger element is a good sign.