The Cocktails Must Flow

Our second cocktail is the Swiss Account. Created by Griffin Cox of Lot Six, Halifax, Canada in 2017; this is Simon Difford’s variant which doubles the Benedictine D.O.M..

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Our first cocktail is the Milanese Gin & Tonic, whgich is, depending on your point of view, a variant of the Negroni or of the Gin & Tonic.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Safe Word. A variant of the Last Word, created by Matt Lofink at Cure in New Orleans, USA, in 2022, which replaces maraschino cherry liqueur with white creme de cacao.

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Our second cocktail is the Maida Vale. Created in 2011 by Andy Green of Unripe, London, England, and originally called the Unripe Manhattan, it was later renamed to Maida Vale. It’s a variant of the Manhattan which uses bourbon while retaining some rye whiskey and adds white vermouth alongside the sweet.

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Our first cocktail is the Aperol Cosmopolitan, a grown up variant of the Cosmopolitan which replaces the cranberry juice with Aperol.

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Our third and final cocktail is the French Connection. A cocktail of unknown origin, and one of several to bear the name French Connection This one gets its name through the use of two French grape based alcohols; cognac and Lillet Blanc.

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Our second cocktail is the Boardwalker. Created by Chris Hoy, bar chef at Barefoot Bistro, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada..

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Our first cocktail is the Banshee, a creamy chocolate banana cocktail of unknown origin, which was popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Vancouver. Created by Joseph A. Fiitchett, head bar steward at the Vancouver club, and first published in the 1925 About Town Cocktail Book; this is the actual recipe for the Vancouver, but for many years people were making a Fitcett and calling it a Vancouver[/b[. A fact which only came to light following a 2002 article in Canada’s Scout Magazine.

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Our second cocktail is the Fitchett. Created by Joseph A. Fitchett, head bar steward, at the Vancouver Club; it featured in the 1925 book About Town Cocktail Book. For many years people were making the Fitchett and calling it the Vancouver, a fact which only came to light in a 2002 article in Canada’s Scout Magazine.

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