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For a lot of, January is a time to step again from the surplus of the vacations that preceded it. Be part of a fitness center, begin a brand new weight loss program, reduce on alcohol. All of these issues are a good suggestion.

However CultureMap’s month-to-month column The place to Drink resides in a special realm. Its cause for being is to supply suggestions for cocktails and issues to sip. We will not, can’t, flinch from that mission. Whereas everybody else is making lists of mocktails, we’re going with flights: Bars which are serving not one drink at a time however multiples so you may combine and match.

Listed here are 5 eating places and bars with enjoyable flights:

Akira Again
Japanese restaurant on the Grandscape in The Colony is a part of a world chain from jetsetter chef Akira Again serving revolutionary fashionable Japanese meals that is ultra-shareable, together with a signature pizza topped with shaved-thin slices of uncommon tuna. They provide a tremendous
choice of sake-themed flights in 4 classes: gentle & crisp, fruity & floral, female & fierce, and wealthy & daring. Sake might be intimidating, and these flights provide an exquisite level of entry.

Cantina Laredo
Tex-Mex chain Cantina Laredo is celebrating its huge seventy fifth anniversary with a limited-edition nostalgic “Flight Down Margarita Lane” that includes trademark margaritas in a flight format together with the Excellent Patrόn ‘Rita, the Grilled Peach ‘Rita, and the Sangria Swirl for $16. Don’t be concerned, full-size variations of the cocktails are additionally accessible. It will launch on Thursday, January 17, and run by means of Monday, April 10, at its areas in Addison, Frisco, and Tyler.

Gillespie’s Tavern
Irish pub in Richardson does all of your pub fundamentals: whiskeys, imported beers, and conventional pub meals reminiscent of fish & chips and shepherd’s pie. They’ve an unlimited inventory of bourbons, Scotch, and Irish whiskey — and good day, a serious dedication to flights, with 10 themed choices priced from $20 to $25, together with Scotches, the Irish household, the boozes of Jameson, a Kentucky bourbon flight, a Texas-themed flight, and a Buffalo household with 4 bourbons by Buffalo Hint.

Snooze an A.M. Eatery
This one’s sort of dishonest as a result of it isn’t a booze flight, though one of many attracts of this buzzy Denver-based breakfast chain is its full bar with cocktails, beer, and spiked espresso. So have a drink should you should, and revel in their pancake flight that includes three of their signature flapjacks: pineapple the wrong way up pancakes, Blueberry Danish pancakes, and Candy Potato pancakes.

Thirsty Lion Gastropub
No flight roundup is full with no beer flight, and this Arizona-based chain has it coated with craft beer flights the place you may style any six beers for $12. Their Texas flight is sort of a Lone Star Best Hits, that includes Karbach Kolsch, Deep Ellum Dallas Blonde, Group Mosaic IPA, Texas Ale Venture Hearth Ant Funeral Amber Ale, Peticolas Velvet Hammer Purple, and 512 Pecan Porter. In any respect 4 areas in Preston Hole, The Colony, Irving, and Euless.