Dark Horse Tavern

It showed up on the way to somewhere else, which is usually how the good ones find you. For this part of central New York, Dark Horse Tavern holds its own.

I ordered an Old Fashioned and watched how they built it. Proper ice, rye, one sugar, expressed peel. Correct.

Noise level was manageable. A bar where you can have a conversation is doing something right.

The limitation was real but not the point of the experience. The point delivered.