With the Oscars (a.k.a.Vanity Fair's Olympics, our Kentucky Derby, our Super Bowl) fast approaching, many of us here could use an extra drink. With that in mind, this week's cocktail hour brings you not one, but two cocktails from La Sirena, Mario Batali's latest, highly anticipated restaurant in New York's Maritime Hotel.

Since opening earlier this month, bartender Meaghan Montagano has been hard at work creating an extensive menu of cocktails that pairs perfectly with Batali's classic Italian fare. Categories include "Stirred and Boozy," "Rich and Robust," and even a charming trio of "Nitecaps." Two standouts are the In Vacanza and the Coppa di Sicilia: the first is extravagant yet crisp, the second spicy and a little more understated.

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