i didn’t write down the drink components, and t-rex’s online drink menu is 404.
cocktail #1 – grapefruit, thyme, lemon balm syrup (?)
cocktail #2 – watermelon, cucumber, spicy-heat
in both cases the flavors were very good. but, cocktail #1, was warm and not strained. wtf people. cocktail #2, wasn’t cold, kind of watery.
went to adesso with stuntman b. verdict, awesome. tasted/drank three cocktails:
- billionaire cocktail (whiskey, grenadine, absinthe bitters, lemon)
- fragola coppa (pimm no. 1, creole shrub, cucumber, strawberry, mint, limonata)
- pisco sour
all delicious. yes, they came up with a strawberry cocktail that bore only the faintest resemblance to a tgif-style daiquiri. and [...]
i’ve been mining the alinea cookbook for drink ideas, here’s my first attempt. dad likes almost all of my concoctions (which i assume because he keeps asking for them) , but this is the only one he’s specifically praised.
ginger-mango alignment
2 oz hendricks gin
OR cucumber-infused gin
OR gin plus one thick cucumber slice
1 oz [...]
