BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR The old train depot that houses The Rail was built in 1902, which helped the three owners of Bloomington’s classy new craft-cocktail and small-plate establishment settle on “pre-Prohibition cocktails” as a theme. Says co-owner Colin Boilini, “Way back then they pretty well had it figured out. It’s an American thing, the cocktail. America did it best and first. It’s an American art form.” In the hands of what Boilini calls his “passionate crew of bartenders,” the cocktail is certainly a Bloomington art form. When he and partners Andy Aronis and Andy Butler (fellow Bloomington High School North 2004 grads) were thinking about opening the place a year ago, Boilini traveled from San Francisco to Chicago to New [...]

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