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Salt & Vinegar Martini
The drink LA’s The Spare Room is most well-known for, this went on the cocktail list four years ago and has never come off…. Continue reading
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Smoke & Bandages
This cocktail has been a feature at The Barber Shop for some time – and for good reason…. Continue reading
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Singapore Sling
If any drink has come to symbolise the height of colonial chic, it has to be the Singapore Sling. Brightly coloured and reminiscent of the tiki drinks of the Caribbean with its pineapple garnish, the Singapore Sling was – according to history – created in 1915 at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore by bartender Ngiam… Continue reading
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Pina Colada
If you like…. PINA COLADAS! Guaranteed you’ll be humming that for the rest of the day now. You’re welcome. While Pina Colada Day is on 10 July, smack in the middle of the northern hemisphere summer, the cocktail (whose name literally means “strained pineapple”) pops up on plenty of cocktail menus around Australia as the… Continue reading
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Rusty Nail
According to cocktail authority Dale DeGroff, the invention of the Rusty Nail should be credited to bartenders at the 21 Club in Manhattan who came up with the idea sometime in the early 1960s. The cocktail’s name was then settled in 1963 after one Gina MacKinnon, who was the chairwoman of the Drambuie Liqueur Company… Continue reading
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Paloma
It turns out that in fact the Paloma, not the Margarita, is Mexico’s most popular way of serving tequila in cocktail form. Despite the fact that when everyone thinks tequila cocktails they think of the classic lime-driven cocktail that is the Margarita, when in Mexico itself, it is the Paloma that really steals the show…. Continue reading