Stone & Soil

Stone & Soil is striking in many ways, starting with the fact that the 28th Street bar's facade mimics that of a house you'd find in Japan. Though it's the cocktails we're sure will leave the biggest impression—after all, there are 22 of them on the menu.

Likely due to the backing of heavyweight talent—including Jimmy Rizvi of Bungalow, Kanvar Singh of Elsie Rooftop and Hirotomo Akutsu, formerly of Tokyo’s Bar Trench—everything at Stone & Soil feels effortlessly intentional. The bar leans into the precision and restraint of Japanese bartending as well as the omotenashi hospitality ethos. There's a certain Zen that comes from watching vest-clad staff stir cocktails in swift motions, or simply from drinking in the interior, made up of deep woods and walls that evoke the ocean's waves.

Stone & Soil has sustainability at its core, focusing on reducing waste and reusing ingredients to make its cocktails—think fermenting the skin and leaves of pineapples with koji (the Pink Tango) and upcycling sake lees, a byproduct of sake making, for a creamy, lemony dip meant to be scooped up with finger-sized rectangles of milk bread (Lemon Sake Lees).