"The West End hotel unveiled a wintertime sunken garden last month, complete with a terrace where visitors can cozy up with blankets and fire pits to sip cocktails and enjoy the frosty weather. Holiday cocktails (all $22) available through the end of the year include the gingerbread martini, made with vanilla vodka, Irish cream, and ginger, and the chai White Russian, featuring chai-spiced cream, spiced rum, and cinnamon. The hotel’s rooftop garden supplies ingredients for a few other seasonal cocktails, including the tubers for a sweet potato syrup in a take on an Old Fashioned that combines rum, the homemade syrup, angostura and pecan bitters, and two charred meringue cubes as a garnish." - Emily Venezky