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Hemingway Daiquiri

Hemingway Daiquiri This is one of my favorite cocktails. When blended properly they go down ridiculously fast. I order even more of them these days because I use them as a litmus test for bartenders. There are lots of bar owners and restauranteurs that want to appeal to today’s customers but only really put window dressing on a very average bar program. You will see a full bar menu of exotic named cocktails with even more esoteric ingredients. Unfortunately it is only gilding. Scratch past the cocktails on the specialty menu and it is just another bar. If you are […]

Margarita No one cocktail was so humiliated during the dark days of cocktails and no cocktail can have as much of an elevation in the resurgence of cocktails as the Margarita. A classic Margarita is like great Italian cooking, combine a few quality ingredients in the proper proportions and you create something that is more than the sum of its parts. That is very bold for both chef and bartender because there is nowhere to hide if you make a mistake. I grew up in the dark days of bartending when a margarita was a four count of tequila with […]