Cocktails Are Flowing Again at Fort DefianceThe Red Hook local has its liquor license and a newly opened back bar.
St. John Frizell’s Fort Defiance returns, victorious. Photo: Clark Hodgin “Did you ever see the movie Zorba the Greek ?” asks St. John Frizell, the bartender and owner of Red Hook’s Fort Defiance. He is, in a roundabout way, explaining the concept that has made the bar and restaurant turned grocery star a neighborhood stalwart for the last 13 years.
