You can never quite make the same fancy, frou-frou drinks at home as you get in a swanky, way-too-hip cocktail bar. The mixers you buy at the grocery store always taste too syrupy sweet, too artificially fruity, frustratingly not quite right. You figure it's your fault because you have two hams instead of fists, or because you're not dressed up properly, or there are too few candles and just not enough atmosphere and there's just nothing you can do, short of demolishing your house, redecorating, and revamping your entire wardrobe.

Midnight Bar Mixes, though--they're made with real fruit juices and natural ingredients, and they've been developed by a "nightlife impresario." How can you go wrong with a collection of mixers made by an impresario? I think you'd be hard-pressed to. They look tasty, almost fool-proof, and I am a sucker for their pretty packaging. My living room may be a cocktail bar, yet. And my sign is "No Parking."