Eem Editor’s Pick

At this rollicking, sweat-inducing, “Thai barbecue cocktail” joint on North Williams, the bar turns loose umbrella drinks fused with cocktail classics, often adorned with orchids, embedded with flashing lights, or sloshing in vintage sea creature mugs. (Don’t miss the no proof drinks: shaken, salty-maple Coca-Cola to an egg-rich, nutmeg-cloaked Thai tea flip.) Curries are the high point of the menu—five lip-tinglers, three of them tangled with daily-smoked meats from food cart-phenom Matt Vicedomini. Among the gems: a frisky jungle curry juggling fried Thai eggplants and fatty-rich brisket slabs that goes swimmingly with tropical drinks. And in an anxious world, who doesn’t want a heavenly lime fro-yo margarita dubbed “Jesus and Tequila” with their curry?