Category: Cocktails!
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New Cocktail: To Wong Foo (Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar)
Bad name for a drink? Dunno. We’ll call it To Wong Foo for short. I scrolled through my notes list of potential cocktail names. There’s some good ones in there. This was almost named Bro Hug, but then I realized we’re using Wong Farm’s (Riverside, CA) mangoes in this beverage and there was also a…
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New Cocktail: Voodoo Economics
A mai tai and a horchata see one another on the street and intertwine. This was the thought process behind our newest tiki beverage. Yeah, it’s been awhile since we’ve had a rum cockatoo on the seasonal side. It’s a good, strong one. I got the idea doing all the reading about the Clover Club…
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Cynar and Stout?
Some dude came over to the bar from a table last night and said, “Hello, I’m European, my English is not so good. Do you have a stout?” “Yes.” “Do you have Cynar?” “Yes.” Will you pour me two ounces of Cynar into a glass and then put a stout over the top of it?”…
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Egg White Conclusions: Part Three
This will hopefully wrap up all of this whiskey sour/egg white nonsense. I don’t know how I started walking down this path. I thought it would be a simple explanation. Hard time catching up? Read parts one and two first, then circle back. This originally was just a rant about how annoying egg white cocktails–ahem,…
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Enter the Egg White: Part Two
Continued from yesterday’s post. Also some editorial stuff here. Ugh, I misspelled “cocktail” right in the title. Sometimes you’ve got to pay better attention, old timer. I actually misspell stuff quite a bit as I’m rushing to get these puppies out in the morning. Jo usually points them out to me. But “cockail?” Yeesh. I…
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The Egg White Cocktail is a Young Person’s Game
I will attempt to make this post as coherent as possible. It’s early, service was long and full of shaken drinks, and I’m dealing with an insane toddler who wants nothing more than to steal this time from me. There’s always a big playlist on the docket for Sundays and this one is no different,…
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Cocktail Progressions
There’s a pantheon, folks. A “one before the other” type of progression, each riffing on the previous, that stretches out in a timeline into infinity or when it all comes crashing down. Will travelers from other worlds dig through the cold, dark husk of our dead planet when we finally drain it of all resources…
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New Cocktail: Anything is Fine
Life lessons. I had to make a return to the Home Depot in Playa del Rey at some point this Sunday so of course it plagued my sleep. I looked online yesterday to see what time they opened. 6:00 a.m. What time did I wake up this morning? 6:00 a.m. Some serious tossing and turning…
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New Cocktail: The Corn Identity
You’re welcome to use the name in your corn cocktails. There’s a bunch of others available too. The Corn Supremacy, The Corn Ultimatum, and The Corn Legacy. In terms of action movies with lots of sequels, the whole Bourne thing got tiring at the end but the original three are pretty damn good. They’re certainly…
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New Cocktail: Clueless Angel
I was describing this one the other day at pre-shift and afterward, Chef Fox muttered something to the tune of “Something fresh and something sitting around.” I can’t remember his exact words, but whatever it was it seemed to sum up the whole Rustic Canyon ideal. Take a seasonal ingredient and if you can’t use…
The Aging Bartender 