Both Sides of the Glass: Paired Cocktails and Mocktails to Toast Any Taste

From Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, an innovative cocktail book that caters to a growing trend--mocktails for nondrinkers that are just as delicious and fun as their cocktail counterparts--in a joyful combination of seventy elevated, perfectly paired alcoholic and nonalcoholic recipes that let everyone raise a glass.

Neil Patrick Harris loves cocktails. So much that he created the Black Magic Margarita, which is currently served at La Cava Del Tequila in Epcot Center, featured cocktails as a weekly feature in his Wondercade newsletter, and even created a bar in his home that was featured in Architectural Digest. David Burtka is sober. An esteemed chef and entertainer, David did not want to miss out on all of Neil's cocktail fun--he just doesn't want alcohol. Nor did he want to stop the party. The idea of a virgin version of Neil's fabulous cocktails felt depressing to him, so David rose to the challenge to create the most exciting, refreshing, and festive concoctions that he can enjoy while celebrating with others.

After seven years of building up their bar and cocktail recipes together, Neil and David are ready to share what they've learned with the world in Both Sides of the Glass, the first guide that combines equally exciting and innovative cocktails and mocktails to suit any mood or event. Together, Neil and David have played with fresh ingredients from their garden, explored flavor profiles from across the globe, and tried almost all the nonalcoholic spirits that have popped up in the past few years to bring you seventy recipes (thirty-five cocktails and thirty-five mocktails) for their very favorite concoctions.

With carefully curated beverages organized thematically around the four elements (fire, earth, water, and air), Both Sides of the Glass truly is the cocktail book for the next generation of drinkers and nondrinkers.

Author: Neil Patrick Harris,David Burtka
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780593719862

About the Author
Neil Patrick Harris is a multi-hyphenate known for iconic roles on both stage and screen, such as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, Count Olaf in the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the title role in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony, Drama League, and Drama Desk Awards). He has also served as a beloved host of the Tony Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Academy Awards. Neil is the author of the international and New York Times bestselling fiction series The Magic Misfits (over one million copies sold), produced and starred in the Netflix comedy series Uncoupled, and joined the cast of the BBC's Dr. Who: 60th Anniversary Specials.

David Burtka is an award-winning and sought-after host, chef, caterer, actor, and author of the bestselling Life Is a Party: Deliciously Doable Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration. His Food Network special, Life's a Party with David Burtka, aired in 2016 and was awarded a Telly Award and 1st Prize at the New York Film and TV Awards. He has appeared in numerous shows on Broadway and Off, including Sam Mendes's Gypsy (Fred Astaire Award nomination), Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and The Play About the Baby, It Shoulda Been You, and in a variety of TV series and films, such as The West Wing (TV) and Cicada, Dance-Off, Annie and the Gypsy, Regrets Only (film). David's one-man show, Burtka, David, played a sold-out engagement at 54 Below. Among David's various producing credits, he can be seen in the series Drag Me to Dinner streaming on Hulu.