There’s a Tent Full of Spiced Cocktails and Oyster Shooters In Here

Justin Timberlake’s “Man of the Woods” isn’t even out yet.

But already it’s holding powerful sway over our cocktail bars. 

Just take Fort Willow, a big fake forest of glowing lanterns and black leather booths surrounding a single ersatz tree trunk, now open for drinks in Elston Corridor. Take a look around.

A neon sign will illuminate your way to this clandestine cocktail bar, taking a cue from its sister, Ada Street. You’ll enter, spy a swinging bench suspended from a slat-covered ceiling and a huge fake tree standing in the room’s middle. You’ll find the whole effect to be whimsical. If we had to guess.

Bring friends to take advantage of the booth inside of a canvas tent. Where you’ll share plate after plate of za’atar-spiced labneh and duck rillette with naan. Each dish features the spices and flavors of a different country. Something you’d probably notice, if you weren’t so busy shooting oysters.

Look, here comes some Tree Fort Punch, a gin and mint cocktail made with green tea. And behind that, it’s the Cape Route Mule loaded with turmeric, cumin, ginger and coriander.

And if you’re here between 5-6pm, those cocktails are just $5. Or if you come after 10pm, those drinks come with complimentary snacks.

Of course, there’s something to be said for doing both.