THAT’S AMARO

Say ciao to Italian happy hour.

Aperitivo, an Italian tradition going global, is an endof-day favourite that brings together amaro-based cocktails with salty snacks galore. Stop by the café at Washington, D.C.’s three-storey Italian collective, Officina, for an Aperol spritz and free olives and mortadella, before perusing the amaro library that stocks rare bottles of the bitters. If the 1970s-inspired tiles at Montreal’s Un Po’ Di Più don’t hypnotize you, the silver tiered trays piled with salami and anchovytopped eggs, paired with an Amara Rossa-based drink, certainly will. And at Willmott’s Ghost in Seattle, toast to fritto misto and fried gnocchi with a Miss Willmott that mixes two types of amaro, blood orange shrub and prosecco.