…hotsy totsy! this place has been around forever, but has recently been taken over and fixed up a bit (while still preserving the old school vibe) by a husband and wife team who know their cocktails.
they have a facebook fan page, james hetfield is a fan!
and they bring in a taco truck [...]
2 oz vodka
1 oz lemon
3/4 oz orgeat
1/4 medium peach, muddled
2 dashes peach bitters
made this first. tasted good. though i’m starting to not love the taste of raw almonds in the orgeat (from a batch made this afternoon, with orange flower water, for the first time). i need to get apricot kernels.
so then:
1/2 [...]
problem: you want to booze it up at an establishment not walkable from your house. some solutions: drive drunk (morally questionable), public transportation (time consuming), cab ($$$ consuming), designated driver (a drag for the driver/i dont have enough (teetotaler) friends).
i figured out (took me long enough) another solution: sober up before [...]
(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 [...]
2 oz white or gold rum
1 oz lime
3/4 oz brown butter and toasted almond orgeat
1 T raisins or currants
this is almost just right. i love the toasted almond flavor (i put the almonds in with the butter while it was browning), but it is too strong; i taste little to no brown butter. [...]
2 oz vodka
1 oz lime
1 oz orgeat
1 tsp currants, rehydrated
1 tsp brown butter
the brown butter ended up in little clumps, i guess that should be of no surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of food chemistry, or life. maybe i should have mixed it into the orgeat, somehow.
i don’t taste raisin at [...]
this drink is a blatant ripoff of the kaffir fling, by david wolowidnyk of west restaurant in vancouver, bc. his version includes cinnamon sprinkled through a blowtorch which looks and smells pretty awesome.
my mom loves this drink. qed.
thai kamikaze
2 oz vodka
1 oz lime juice
0.75-1 oz orgeat
2-5 kaffir lime leaves
2 coins ginger
muddle lime leaves [...]
