as mentioned in a previous post, cuesa has a farmer’s market cocktail night every quarter/season. tonight was their night of summer cocktails. overall, the drinks this time around were much better than last time; nothing was bad, many were very good.
favorites:
green and orange (jackie patterson) – green chartreuse, lime, carrot, honey, cantaloupe, cilantro [...]
five:
basil gimlet – really delicious but the basil could have looked better. just for cosmetic reasons if nothing else.
unnamed drink – bardude comped me a drink in exchange for being a guinea pig. a brandy sour made with vanilla sugar, with an aged rum float. excellent, though there was a slight [...]
(inspired by the alinea cookbook)
2 oz gin
1 oz lemon
1 oz orange orgeat
3 medium-sized basil leaves
2 drops peychaud bitters
gently muddle leaves. combine remaining ingredients with lots of ice, shake, strain.
this is a pretty good drink. i used bombay sapphire for the gin. once again, it would have been better with hendricks, or half [...]
