A cosmopolitan is a classic cocktail that every aficionado knows, but fewer people might know about the similarly named metropolitan. Here's the difference.

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Fans of “Sex and the City” or Madonna have long been familiar with the Cosmopolitan cocktail, but they might not realize that part of its rise to popularity has a bit of history in Cleveland.

Add 2 oz. gin, 1 oz. fresh lemon juice, and 1 oz. simple syrup to a Collins glass. Add ice, then top it off with 6-7 oz. Sprite (or club soda, if you don't want it as sweet) and stir until well mixed.

The Cosmopolitan cocktail—that blush-pink symbol of sybaritic urban sophistication, thanks to many appearances on the series “Sex and the City”—is almost 40.

Move over London. Step aside New York. There’s a new cosmopolitan cocktail capital: Barcelona is home to Paradiso, the newly crowned world’s best bar. For the first time since the World’s 50 ...