Martinis are near mandatory, expertly made, and go very well with a plate of pigs in a blanket in the bar area. If it’s ...

They say 60 percent of the human body is made up of water, but if you ask a Jew from the Northeast (a.k.a. me), we’d say our bodies are actually 60 percent everything bagels and gravlax.

Then maybe, like me, you ask Christina Hankins, who has been tending the bar here for 14 years, to make what she considers to be a representative Tower Bar drink. “I’ll humor you,” she says.