Cocktail Tease
All things LA cocktail related -- pictures, news, recipes. By @carolineoncrack of L.A. blog carolineoncrack.com.
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See if you can spot your favorite LA bartenders and bars in this music video (by FogandSmogFilms)
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Check out the new cocktail menu by @giomartinez @sadierestaurant!
SADIE COCKTAIL MENUby Giovanni MartinezAperitifPantera Rosa – Aperol \ Beefeater 24 Gin \ homemade vanilla syrup \ shaken with fresh lemon juice & egg whites $12The Green Beast – Pernod Absinthe \ fresh lime juice \ castor sugar \ cucumber \ water shaken & served over crushed ice $12Blueberry Hill – Beefeater Gin \ fresh blueberries \ tarragon \ simple syrup \ fresh lemon juice $12ShakenLa China – lychee black tea-infused Avion Silver Tequila \ fresh lime juice \ organic agave syrup \ Velvet Falernum \ shaken & served up $12Kentucky Ninja – Japanese Single Malt Whisky \ Bourbon Whiskey \ fresh lemon juice \ lavender-infused wild honey \ shaken & served in a Peychaud’s Bitters rinsed glass $13Gran Prix – Chrysanthemum-infused Beefeater Gin \ honey syrup \ fresh lemon juice \ shaken & finished with Racer 5 IPA $13StirredWhite Monk – white pepper & cardamom-infused Dolin Blanc Vermouth \ Silver Tequila \ two dashes of Castilian bitters \ Benedictine rinse $13Pontchartrain – Bourbon \ 10 y.o. tawny port \ house-made grenadine \ a dash of fresh lemon juice \ served in an Absinthe-rinsed cocktail glass $14Oaxacan through Italy – Pechuga \ Cocchi Vermouth di Torino \ Cynar \ served in a coupe with a singed orange peel $14WinterVelvet – Aged Guatemalan Rum \ a touch of raisin-infused balsamic \ house-made lemon clove syrup 14Double Black Diamond – Green Flash Double Stout \ Blackwell Jamaican Rum \ cream \ sugar \ whole egg \ shaken & served with fresh grated nutmeg (Daniel Eun, 2010) $12The Nautilus – Smith & Cross Jamaican Rum \ Martell Cognac \ Rabarbaro Zucca \ heavy cream $12ClassicsVintage Cosmopolitan – Beefeater Gin \ fresh raspberries \ lemon juice \ triple sec (Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars, 1933) $12Bramble – Old Tom Gin \ fresh lemon juice \ crème de mure \ fresh blackberries (Dick Bradsell, 1980’s) $12Armillita Chico – Silver Tequila \ grenadine \ lime \ pomegranate juice (Charles H. Baker, 1939) $13There’s also a couple of new barrel-aged cocktails:
Hanky Panky: Plymouth gin, Italian Vermouth, Rabarbaro liqueur — aged for 1 month
Regany: Aged Boomsma Genever, Italian Vermouth, Forbidden bitters — aged for 2 months
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Writer’s Room mixologist dapper Daniel Nelson displaying his mixing skills.
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Great @papermagazine Q&A on Jim Meehan of PDT. Amstel Light is his guilty dive bar pleasure + info on his new PDT cocktail book. #wishlist http://www.papermag.com/2011/11/jim_meehan_of_pdt_on_his_new_b.php
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Love this photo of @hwood_roosevelt Library Bar’s Matthew Biancaniello doing his thang. But here he looks like he’s just pouring vodka all over the produce. Heh.
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Bartender @DevDiggy leaves @TTKVenice to head up the bar program at @MVoltaggio’s ink. http://bit.ly/nmif6a
