Angel's Share

In 1993, Tony Yoshida opened a small bar behind an unmarked door in the East Village and quietly changed American drinking.Angel's Share introduced a generation of New Yorkers to two things they had largely forgotten: properly made classic cocktails, at a moment when almost nobody in the city was making them, and the entire Japanese approach to bartending — the precision, the ice, the silence, the treatment of the bar as a craft discipline rather than a service job. Nearly every serious…