Boston - January 07, 2009

Cooler Shaker

The Boston Shaker Cocktail Tool and Supply Opens

For an exquisitely mixed cocktail, you rely heavily on that tattooed barkeep down the street.

She, in turn, relies heavily on your tips.

Why not drop a dime on yourself at The Boston Shaker? The new store-within-a-store is a mixologist’s paradise, where essential bar tools like shakers, jiggers, and ice crushers sit alongside cult varieties of bitters and out-of-print cocktail manuals reissued by Mud Puddle Books.

Never worked behind the stick? Fear not. While bar stars wax poetic about appropriate mixers for the Bijou, owner/founder Adam Lantheaume advises how to set up the perfect home bar.

And those are tips you can keep.

The Boston Shaker, inside Grand, 374 Somerville Avenue, Union Square, Somerville (617-623-2429 or thebostonshaker.com).