Two months ago, at the edge of a gentrifying area in Washington, D.C., I was sitting with some food-writer friends at Death Metal Cocktail Night in a very dark, very loud bar in a former garage called American Ice Company, sampling ominously named drinks such as the rum-based Jucifer and…

M Bar has quietly debuted at the corner of East Las Olas and NE 13th Avenue as a sibling to the evergreen Italian restaurant Mancini’s. Owner Jack Mancini closed his namesake restaurant a couple of doors down with plans to open it next door to M Bar in August.At this…