Dylan Garret

Explore the Food & Wine 25 — the cocktails, wines, dishes, chefs, and big ideas that defined how we ate and drank over the past 25 years. From tiny cupcakes and "Sex and the City," to "The Bear" and the food truck revolution, these moments shaped the 2000s.

The modern craft cocktail movement kicked off on the eve of the millennium when New York City's influential Milk & Honey opened its doors, helping ignite contemporary bar culture as we know it. Here are the 25 most important cocktails of the 2000s.

Trends move fast, and drinks and bar culture have come a long way from where they started out at the beginning of the millennium. From speakeasy-chic cocktail lounges to the return of tiki and the rise of social media, these are the moments that defined drinking.

The Blue Hawaii is a cocktail from the 1950s that originated before Hawaii became a U.S. state, and was created by the bartender who invented the mini umbrella as garnish. Though decades of cocktail abuse turned many off to blue drinks, it remains a classic for good reason.

An argument between Food & Wine editors over Miller High Life vs. Coors Banquet led us to taste test 20 popular North American Lagers, sight unseen, evaluating them for flavor, finish, and overall enjoyability. Here are the winners.

Created in the early 1990s by Julio Bermejo at Tommy's Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco, the Tommy's Margarita uses agave nectar instead of triple sec as it's sweetener. This seemingly simple change ushered in a new era for tequila cocktails that still impacts what you drink today.

Taking place in Brooklyn, New York, the two-day trade fair is expected to surpass last year’s record-breaking attendance of more than 5,300 industry professionals and 230 exhibitors from 48 countries and 47 U.S. states.​

Created by bartender Joaquín Simó in 2011, the Naked & Famous was created as a mezcal mashup between a Last Word and a Paper Plane. Now, it's widely considered one of the best cocktails of the 21st century.

During the mid-2000s craft cocktail resurgence, more than a decade before the Espresso Martini’s took over modern bar menus for a second time, a legendary San Francisco bartender gifted us the ‘espresso Manhattan.’

When is a Margarita a Manhattan? The Churchill, a mid-1900s cocktail invented at the Savoy in London that was created for the legendary British prime minister, uses a base of Scotch whisky to play with the boundaries between cocktail styles.