The Story Behind The Breakfast Tonic
Among New York's more compelling architectural restoration projects is Hotel Henry, a $70 million renovation of a 19th-century insane asylum in Buffalo. The 88-key hotel opened in April 2017, and occupies a 40-acre lot adjacent to the lush Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservatory and SUNY Buffalo State. (Why city planners initially installed a mental institution alongside university housing remains unknown.)
Hotel Henry is now home to 100 Acres, a high-ceilinged restaurant serving such crowd-pleasing items as burgers with tomato jam, fluffy ricotta pancakes, and poached eggs atop maple-cured pork loin. A greenhouse on hotel grounds provides floral arrangements and garnishes for some dishes, and will soon be expanded to encompass a potager, or kitchen garden.
There is no better way to toast enduring American enterprise than with 100 Acres' Breakfast Tonic, a gin and tonic riff perfect for morning imbibing. Infused with Edinburgh's Christmas gin and Rishi English Breakfast tea, the Breakfast Tonic is a bright, bracing start to the day.
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