SHORT, SERIOUS, STRONG
In 1892 (a different) James Brown reported that ‘a card game was in full blast, with the usual poker accompaniments of cigars, cocktails, anecdotes and reminiscence’, when a ‘hole-card flip’ triggered a gun fight (Amusing Recollections of an Arizona City). This page contains the serious cocktails we think these card sharks might have enjoyed, cigars in hand.
Full-Fat Old Fashioned - 13.00
Butter-infused Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond, Sugar
Features homemade butter-infused bourbon, painstakingly made over long hours with large quantities of bourbon, clarified butter and a sous-vide machine. Not for the (literally) faint-hearted.
Features homemade butter-infused bourbon, painstakingly made over long hours with large quantities of bourbon, clarified butter and a sous-vide machine. Not for the (literally) faint-hearted.
The Affinity Cocktail - 12.00
Chivas 18 year, Dubbonet, Cocchi Americano, Bitters
“After drinking one, the horizon takes on a roseate hue; the second brings Wall Street to the front and center, when you’ve put away the third the green grass grows up all around, birds sing in the fig trees and your affinity appears.” Washington Post, 29 October 1907.
“After drinking one, the horizon takes on a roseate hue; the second brings Wall Street to the front and center, when you’ve put away the third the green grass grows up all around, birds sing in the fig trees and your affinity appears.” Washington Post, 29 October 1907.
Made Man - 9.75
Ritternhouse Rye Whiskey, Fernet Branca, Yellow Chartreuse & Cherry Heering
A variation on the Manhattan that Mad Men and Goodfellas would have enjoyed at the end of a hard day’s work. Created by Ali Reynolds from Hawksmoor Spitalfields.
A variation on the Manhattan that Mad Men and Goodfellas would have enjoyed at the end of a hard day’s work. Created by Ali Reynolds from Hawksmoor Spitalfields.
Valentino - 12.00
Great King Street Glasgow Blend, Cocchi Torino, Orange , Cherry
A refined stirred-down take on the Blood & Sand, a Prohibition-era classic named after Rudolph Valentino’s 1922 film of the same name. Valentino, Hollywood’s original Latin Lover, plays a headstrong toreador madly in love with two women at the same time who meets a grizzly end at the horns of a prize bull.
A refined stirred-down take on the Blood & Sand, a Prohibition-era classic named after Rudolph Valentino’s 1922 film of the same name. Valentino, Hollywood’s original Latin Lover, plays a headstrong toreador madly in love with two women at the same time who meets a grizzly end at the horns of a prize bull.
