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Travel+Leisure US
|September 2025
The team behind one of America’s favorite bars has opened a cocktail-focused hotel in Savannah.
The Brooklyn and Siesta cocktails at Municipal Grand, a hotel in Savannah.
WHEN THE 48-SEAT Death & Co. opened in Manhattan’s East Village in 2006, it helped put the idea of “craft cocktails” on the map. Even in the early days, when the bartenders first mixed now-infamous recipes like the Oaxacan Old-Fashioned, it was clear to founder David Kaplan that “we’d captured lightning in a bottle.”
This story is from the September 2025 edition of Travel+Leisure US.
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