The Cocktails Must Flow

Our third and final cocktail is the Corpse Reviver No. 1. This is Frank Caiafa’s recipe (long-term NYC bartender, beverage director and author of The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book) where he adds a dash of orange bitters to the established Savoy recipe.

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Our second cocktail is the Keyser Suze. The name is a play on words from the name of a character in the 1995 The Usual Suspects; created by Chris Grotvedt at The Thief, Oslo, Norway, in 2017.

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Our first cocktail is the So So Cocktail, a classic dating back to at least the 1920s.

A wonderfully balanced herbal cocktail, credited to Mr P. Soso, the popular manager of the Kit-Kat Club, London, by Harry MacElhone’s’s 1923 Harry of Ciro’s ABC Of Mixing Cocktails.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Greta Garbo. Named after famed Hollywood actress, Greta Garbo, the origins of this cocktail are unknown. It was included in David A. Embury’s 1948 Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

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Our second cocktail is the Manhattan (Sweet with Bitter Chocolate). Created by Simon Difford in 2017 at the Cabinet Room, London, England. Despite the name, it is a dry spiritous cocktail; the “sweet” refers to the use of sweet vermouth.

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Our first cocktail is the Reverse Martni. A simple reversal of the ingredients in a Classic Martini, resulting in a “wet” martini. With so much vermouth, this cocktail benefits greatly from a fresh, good quality dry vermouth.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Caruso. The Caruso[/]b was created for the tenor Enrico Caruso in the early 20th century and was mentioned by Harry Craddock in his The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock (1930). The original recipe called for shaking and does work best this way, despite modern convention.

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Our second cocktail is the Adonis. The Adonis is a sherry and vermouth-based cocktail, with equal parts of both. The cocktail was created at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC in honor of the 1884 musical Adonis after the show reached the milestone of more than 500 shows on Broadway.

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Our first cocktail is the Left Hand. The creator of this cocktail, Sam Ross, has described it as “a love child between a Negroni and a Manhattan.” Essentially a Boulevardier using bourbon instead of Irish whiskey and with different proportions and the addition of chocolate bitters.

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Our first cocktail is the The Neutral Ground, created by Rhiannon Enlil in New Orleans 2008. Named after the stretch of Canal Street between the Creole’s living in the French Quarter and the Americans on the other side.

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