Drink The New Ground Rules for Garnishing In too many bars, garnishes are overpowering the cocktails they were meant to enhance. It’s time for a return to lime and reason. Illustration by Fangyu Ma Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. You’ve just ordered your first drink at the cool new cocktail bar in town. It arrives and you have to admit, it’s gorgeous, towering with fruit slices, flowers, and herb sprigs as artfully composed as an Arcimboldo . But just trying to take a sip turns into such a challenge, you wonder if you’re being pranked. Why are there so many bits and bobs covering the top of your cocktail that you can’t actually drink it? Every few years, the cocktail pendulum swings from minimalism to maximalism and back again.…