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 [...]
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Also tagged aged rum, apricot liqueur, basil, basil gimlet, bourbon, brandy, eccolo, five restaurant, gin, ginger, kumquat, lime, rye, smoke screen, southern gentleman, vanilla sugar
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nothing ruins a good cocktail like a mouthful of salt. the practice must have originated in a time or place where the prevailing culinary issue was how best to obscure the taste of rotting meat with eucalyptus leaves and fish guts.
we are beyond that now…so let’s act like it!
if you are going to rim [...]
