Cocktails & Songs

Most people have a signature drink - with or without spirits. The choices are varied:  Chai (tea) or Long Island Ice Tea, Arnold Palmer, Irish Coffee, Flat white, Chocolate Martini, Cosmo, Margarita, Pina Colada, Wine, or Scotch on the rocks ... the list goes on - some with fancy names and others that are suggestive. Here are some I am familiar with.  And this is why I LOVE this Bar!!! youtu.be/guXPtg-G0mU 

I Love this Bar! - Toby Keith

Makeover Cosmopolitan

Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz Vodka Citron, 1 oz Cranberry juice, 1/2 oz Cointreau, 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice

Preparation: Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and double strain into large cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

English Afternoon Tea

English afternoon tea bag seeped in hot water. 

Preparation: Serve milk and sugar into cup first. Then pour hot tea. Eat with sandwiches, scones, macarons.

Flat White

Swinging Doors - Merle Haggard

Melon-Holly Olaf 

Ingredients: 1 ½ oz midori liqueur, 1 oz clear rum, 1/2 oz triple sec. or 1 tbsp rose water, 5 ounces lemon lime soda

Preparation: Fill a martini glass with ice. Add midori liqueur and rum. Top with lemon lime soda and stir gently to combine.

Top with a maraschino cherry

Moscow Mule

Cucumber Martini

Ingredients: 2 large ripe cucumbers, 4 ounces elderflower liqueur (St. Germain), 2 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice

4 jiggers (1 ½ ounces) cucumber-flavored vodka

Preparation: Cut 12 thin round slices of cucumber (with the peel). Cover and refrigerate

Peel the remaining cucumber and cut into chunks. In the container of a blender, add the cucumber, elderflower liqueur, and lime juice, and blend on high until completely puréed.

For each drink, add ice to a cocktail shaker along with a jigger of vodka. Add 2 jiggers of the cucumber purée, and shake vigorously. Strain the contents into a chilled martini glass and garnish with 3 cucumber slices. Serve immediately. 

Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett

Watermelon Margarita

Ingredients: 6oz fresh watermelon juice (from about 1½ cups chopped seedless watermelon, blended and strained); 2oz tequila, preferably blanco; 2oz Cointreau (optional)

2oz fresh lime juice (from 1 to 2 large limes), rinds reserved; 

Ice, as needed

Preparation:

Prepare the salted rim, if using: In a small shallow bowl or plate, combine the sea salt and Tajín. Using one of the squeezed lime halves, run it along the rim of two rocks glasses, then dip the rims into the salt mixture

In a shaker filled with ice, combine the watermelon juice, tequila, Cointreau (if using), lime juice. Shake to combine. (Note: The watermelon flavor shines brighter without the Cointreau, but the liqueur takes the drink into more traditional margarita territory.)

Fill the glasses with ice, then strain the margaritas into the glasses and enjoy immediately.