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Rule number 23 in any successful statewide best bar search: When they break out the secret menu, you must order a drink or three from it."Hippies use side door,'' reads a sign outside this cocktail bar in downtown Hub City.It's a cozy little fish tank adorned haven, with a restaurant known for its exotic game entrees. Here's a Munchmobile report on the restaurant. "Usually when you get a Manhattan, it's too strong. This one has the right balance.''The "secret menu'' contains drinks created by all the bartenders.Not wanting to show any favoritism, I ordered Pasternak's Bright Punch, a throwback to English milk punches, and O'Connell's El Topo (Courvoisier, Vida mescal, Carpano Antica, orgeat syrup, Benedictine, Jerry Thomas bitters 11).My favorite drinks, though, may have been the Nutty Alexander ("secretly the best drink on the menu,'' Pasternak confided) and the Destroyer, created by manager Cassandra Perjesy.The Nutty Alexander: Nocello, Frangelico, amaretto, creme de cacao, ice cream. The Destroyer: House infused sweet tea vodka, St. Germain, lemon cucumber. Monday Friday) drinks are just $7.CATHERINE LOMBARDI, NEW BRUNSWICKThe restaurant hosts pours of expensive and rare spirits every Thursday night as part of its ongoing Spirits Project."To be a great restaurant, you can't just have a great wine list,'' said Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale co owner Mark Pascal. "You have to have a great craft beer list, a great cocktail list.''A cocktail, Catherine Lombardi, New Brunswick.Co owner Francis Schott, who told a hilarious story involving the sale of his beloved Harley to a Pagan motorcycle club member (too long be recounted here), was behind the bar.The drinks came in rapid fashion: the Belfast Cocktail (ruby port, cognac, pear eau de vie, cinnamon, bitters); the Strega Sour (licore Strega, 151 Demerara rum, Aperol, Tahitian vanilla, lemon, lime); and the Scorched CP Fizz (Pernod absinthe, Gomme syrup, lemon, egg white and seltzer, and bruleed with Demerara rum).And let's not forget the Peat Genovese, made with Boomsma Genever Oude, fresh lemon juice, cinnamon syrup, chamomile syrup, honey syrup and Laphroig Scotch whisky."It's turned out to be very popular,'' Schott e mailed the day after. "We're putting it on the menu.''