Cocktail Recipes

Makes 1 cocktail (and a bit more!)

1 oz dry gin

1 oz Lillet Blanc

1 oz orange liqueur

1 oz fresh lemon juice

2-3 drops Pastis

Combine the gin, Lillet, orange liqueur, and lemon juice in a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Pour into a coupe glass and finish with a few drops of pastis. 

Makes 1 cocktail

½ oz dry gin

½ oz fresh lemon juice

½ oz Luxardo

lemon twist for garnish

Combine the gin, lemon juice, and Luxardo in a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Pour into a coupe glass and garnish with a twist.

Makes 1 cocktail

½ oz honey syrup

2 oz gin  

¾ oz fresh lemon juice

lemon twist for garnish

First make the honey syrup by combining equal parts honey and water in a saucepan. Heat over low heat until the honey melts. Then, combine the gin, fresh lemon juice, and honey syrup in a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a twist. 

Makes 1 cocktail 

3 oz fresh lemonade 

(not freshly squeezed juice)
1¼ oz vodka
½ oz raspberry liqueur
honeydew melon balls to garnish

Fill a highball glass with ice and vodka. Top with raspberry liqueur and lemonade and stir. Garnish with honeydew melon balls.

Makes 1 cocktail 

2 oz vodka
½ oz lime juice

3 oz ginger beer

Lime wheel

Mint leaves, to garnish

Fill a copper mug with ice and add vodka and lime juice. Stir to combine. Top with ginger beer and garnish with lime wheel and mint.

Makes 1 cocktail

2 oz rye whiskey
½ oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz fresh orange juice
2 tsp grenadine
Maraschino cherries, to garnish

Fill a shaker with ice and add the whiskey, lemon and orange juice, and grenadine. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and serve garnished with cherries.

Makes 1 cocktail

2½ oz dry gin
spray or drop of dry vermouth
lemon peel, to garnish

Chill a martini glass. In a shaker filled with ice add the gin and vermouth. Shake very well, for at least 30-45 seconds. Run the lemon peel around the inside of the chilled martini glass and along the rim and strain the martini into the glass. Garnish with a twist.

Makes 1 cocktail

1½ oz vodka
5 oz fresh orange juice

1 tsp agave syrup
1 oz Galliano L’Autentico liqueur
Orange slice and maraschino cherry to garnish

Combine the vodka, orange juice, and agave syrup in a collins glass filled with ice and stir well. Slowly pour the Galliano over a bar spoon into the glass to create a floating layer of the liqueur. Garnish with the orange and cherry and serve.

Makes 1 cocktail

1 oz fresh grapefruit juice

1 oz gin

1 oz sweet vermouth

½ ounce Campari

1 tsp sugar

Grapefruit slices, to garnish

Place all ingredients, except grapefruit slice, into a mixing glass. Stir well to dissolve sugar. Add ice and stir well to chill. Pour into a lowball glass filled with ice and serve.

Makes 1 cocktail

2 oz applejack

1 oz grenadine

½ ounce fresh lemon juice

½ ounce fresh lime juice

Green apple slice, to garnish

Place all ingredients, except the apple slice, into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and serve garnished with an apple slice.

Makes 1 cocktail

1½ oz silver tequila  

¾ oz fresh lime juice

1 oz orange liqueur

Sugar syrup to taste

Lime wedge, for garnish

Combine the tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur, and sugar syrup in a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Pour into a low ball glass filled with ice and garnish with a lime wedge.