Wines by the glass slip from Alsace and Piedmont to Eazy, Slovenia, and Shavi Kravi, Georgia, the birthplace of skin-contact amber wine. Miller High Life with a shot of Cognac for an Affair to Forget Genesee with bourbon and a pickleback rewinding the mixtape to 2006. That attention to high-low puts Genesee and Miller High Life on the beer menu beside hyper-local craft Return Brewing and Suarez beers. Among the most popular, Cins of Passion manages to unite cachaca, passionfruit, cinnamon and coconut milk over a pinnacle of granular ice for a delicately potent thrill. The cobs of locally sourced sweet corn form the base of a Holy Mountain, where mezcal does the heavy lifting, yellow chartreuse delivers yellow blush and Thai basil and black pepper complement the sweet, vegetal notes of corn simple syrup. The quinquina in a gin-based Package Deal is the bitter ringer for the submerged nasturtium scenting each sip. The pineapple in the Tropic Like It’s Hot is roasted and juiced, paired with bruised lemongrass and treated like a grownup with pineapple rum Concord grapes in a Notorious RBG are concentrated into syrup the Stylin’ (hello, Harry) takes its name from sweet grilled watermelon, juiced and blended with Los Arcos sherry and Lustau vermouth rosé. The driving force at Padrona is a ring-bound cocktail menu of Dunn originals split across full-proof, low-ABV and booze-free, plus pre-batched and slushies, where her kitchen/bar mind meld is in full effect. First up, egg salad and caviar sandwich with scallion creme fraiche. I am not surprised when Dunn reports that after expanding hours they’re starting a caviar service. It’s why a simple whipped ricotta drizzled with wildflower honey is blanketed in the fragrant, anise notes of fennel pollen, a brilliant partner, and your basic onion dip is amplified by the umami power of shaved bottarga (pressed fish roe). Lobsters rolls available on occasion.Įtc.: Outdoor patio seating. Price: Cocktails, $12 to $16 beer, $3 to $8 snacks and conservas, $5 to $27. to midnight Friday and Saturday closed Monday. At least half of the menu hinges on conservas - tinned fish and seafood - served with crackers, salted chiles and grilled lemons that nod to time spent in restaurant kitchens where Dunn learned “by osmosis” about flavor-boosting and kitchen efficiency. Marinated olives are an quick hit time-traveling roasted garlic and herb-spiced nuts, feeling at home in both the 1970s or early aughts, are lovingly house-made. Crusty sliced Tribeca Oven baguettes and salty potato chips scattered on paper-lined trays are optimal for scooping or dunking in an assortment of dips and spreads. The result is a sort of grazing menu built around her highbrow-lowbrow approach to communal dining in the form of elevated snacks prepped in advance and speedy to plate. The tight industry community that mushroomed in Hudson during those years means recognizable names pepper her stories, from Sam Hyers, now at Cafe Mutton, who developed Padrona’s smart, snackable recipes for a menu Dunn could manage as a kitchen staff of one and head bartender Morgan Irish - from DA|BA and BackBar days - whom she entrusts with her culinary-inspired cocktails to the late cocktail legend Sasha Petraske, whom she surprised in BackBar with his first carrot cocktail inspired by upstate farms.ĭunn views Padrona as a cocktail bar with good food rather than a restaurant with good cocktails. Years in the making, including a pandemic delay, Padrona is a near-exact rendering that delivers an undeniably welcome vibe.ĭunn is a familiar face, having run the bar program at Hudson's Fish & Game and BackBar for almost a decade after following her former bosses Jori Emde and Zak Pelaccio upstate. Veteran bartender Kat Dunn has long curated a vision she hoped would resonate when brought to life. Not the vibrant wall murals in orange and teal, or the humor in bathrooms wallpapered with martini-guzzling, cigar-smoking monkeys and one swinging as a lamp overhead. Not the mix of upscale, custom-made bar stools and low-cost finds from furniture stores. Tucked away on North Fourth Street, near the Etsy headquarters, nothing at Padrona is by chance. Padrona in Hudson already has the comfort of a friend’s living room - a friend who happens to have a bar low-lit with clustered orb lamps, killer taste in midcentury-modern furniture and a playlist paced between the soft vocals of Aaliyah and Anita Ward’s "Ring My Bell." That’s unless you’re visiting early Sunday evening, when a talented neighbor turns Padrona into a loungey piano saloon.
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