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Yeah, I recently ordered a Periodista and was thwarted due to insufficient ingredients.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
Basically, I should live at the Eastern Standard Kitchen.
Raymond Chandler would be pissed. But it seems to me even Marlowe said it was hard to find a good gimlet in America.
In related news: I cannot wait to go to New Orleans and have 25 cent martinis and Sazeracs to my heart's content! Also, Pimms Cups and absinthe.
Gimlets you can be pretty sure of.
Ah, if only.
Oh, I meant in the having the ingredients sense. The mixture, OTOH. I have asked if I can make it myself, and, failing that, said, "okay, pooooooouuuuur . . . STOP. Okay, now a splash of Rose's." He finally got it when I told him to think of it like the vermouth in a martini.
Fresh lime juice is best for gimlets. And I agree; I either have to tell the bartender what it is, or I have to ask them to modify it. I've had a lot of "EUUUGGH, that's just cold vodka UNDO IT UNDO IT!" gimlets.
I prefer more Rose's to less, Vortx, to avoid precisely that reaction.
I drank WAY too much straight vodka in high school to want to taste it now!
I still stand by my Sazerac cocktail recommendation. Classy, classic, simple, badass, mysterious.
By most accounts the Sazerac is the first cocktail.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
That would be Alembic in my neighborhood. And I know you like their beer since they're affiliated with Magnola where I took you drinking.
My drinks of choice: Cheap red wine a la Riunite Lambrusco, and Boone's Farm Sangria.
t holder of a wussy palate since 1979 and proud of it
What is in a Sazerac? I don't like any kind of whisky, gin, bourbon or Scotch, so I'm pretty limited in my cocktailage.
My Celtic heritage turns up its nose at me and sniffs. I don't really like beer, either.
Connie, I have a friend who luuuurves the Lambrusco! She kinds of slinks around with a paper bag full of it at summer parties cause her husband is a wine snob.
I don't like any kind of whisky, gin, bourbon or Scotch, so I'm pretty limited in my cocktailage
You wouldn't like a Sazerac.
That would be Alembic in my neighborhood. And I know you like their beer since they're affiliated with Magnola where I took you drinking.
t puts on the list for San Francisco to-do in October