Aperol Spritz

  • 3 oz Prosecco Brut

  • 2 oz Aperol

  • 1 oz Sparkling Water

    Add all ingredients to a red wine glass, add 4-5 pieces of medium cubed ice, and stir.

    Garnish: Orange or Lemon Wheel

  • Notes: For more Amaro flavor increase Aperol to 2.25 oz. This helps fight dilution.

Straits Sling

  • 2 oz Gin

  • .5 oz Kirschwasser (or clear cherry liqueur)

  • .5 oz Benedictine

  • .5 oz Lemon Juice

  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

  • 2 dashes Orange Bitters

  • 1 oz Soda Water

    Shake everything except soda with ice, strain into champagne flute, stir in soda water.

Singapore Sling (Raffles Traditional)

  • 1.5 oz London Dry Gin

  • .5 oz Cherry Heering

  • .25 oz Benedictine

  • .25 oz Triple Sec

  • 1.5 oz Pineapple Juice

  • .5 Lime Juice

  • 1 bar spoon Grenadine

  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

    Shake everything with ice and strain into a tall Collins or footed pilsner glass filled with cubed ice.

  • Garnish: Orange wheel, pineapple wedge, Cherry, umbrella.

Wray & Ting

  • 1.5 oz Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum

  • 4 oz Ting (Jamaican Grapefruit Soda)

    Pour both ingredients into a rocks glass or 10 oz Collins glass, fill with cubed ice, and gently stir.

  • Garnish with a lime wedge.

  • Notes: It’s optional to squeeze the lime wedge into the drink and drop it in. Both ways are acceptable depending preference.

Bungalow Mango Margarita (Original)

Leaving the skin on, cut a large slice of fresh mango. Place skin side down in the bottom of a shaker. Muddle till the meat is a mushy pulp. Add:

  • 1 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice

  • .75 oz Triple Sec

  • .25 oz Organic Agave Nectar

  • 2 oz Tequila Blanco

    Add ice to shaker, enough to top of liquid, and shake. Pour entire contents, including mango skin, into rocks glass.

  • Garnish: Lime Wheel or Wedge

  • Notes: I was living in my one bedroom bungalow downtown Nashville when I rediscovered my love for the tropics. Basically, because I missed home. During my personal renaissance, my front porch facing the pool and decked out like a beach shack bar, I would follow up my meal of black beans and rice with a mango and my favorite cocktail - Margarita. It wouldn’t be till years later I combined these magnificent muses into one.

Paloma (Fresh)

  • 2 oz Tequila Reposado

  • 1 oz Grapefruit Juice

  • .5 oz Lime Juice

  • 1 tsp Agave Syrup

  • 4 oz Topo Chico

  • pinch of salt

    Add all ingredients, including salt, directly into a double rocks, collins, or pilsner glass, fill with ice and stir. Garnish with mint, lime wheel and pineapple chunk.

Paloma

  • 1.5 oz Tequila Reposado

  • .5 oz Lime Juice

  • 3 oz Jarritos Grapefruit Soda

  • Pinch of Salt

    Add all ingredients, including salt, directly into a double rocks, collins, or pilsner glass, fill with ice and stir.

Cuba Libre

  • 2 oz Aged Light (or Amber) Rum

  • .5 oz Lime Juice

  • 4 oz Real Sugar Coca-Cola

    Shake rum and lime juice with ice. Strain into glass. Fill glass with ice and stir in cola.

  • Glassware: Gibraltar Rocks Glass, Pilsner Glass

  • Garnish: Lime wheel or wedge

Planter's Punch

  • 1.5 oz Dark Jamaica Rum

  • 1 oz Unsweetened Pineapple Juice

  • 1 oz Orange Juice

  • .5 oz Lemon Juice

  • 1 tsp Grenadine

  • 1 tsp Simple Syrup

  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

    Shake all ingredients except bitters with ice. Pour into double rocks glass or tiki mug.

  • Garnish: Mint Sprig, assorted fruit on skewer

Blue Hawaii

  • .75 Vodka

  • .75 Light Puerto Rico Rum

  • 3 oz Pineapple Juice

  • 1 oz Sweet & Sour Mix

  • .5 oz Blue Curacao

    Add all ingredients to a Hurricane glass. Fill glass with ice. Stir gently till blue dissolves throughout. Garnish with pineapple slice and orchid flower.

Mojito

  • 1.5 oz Light Rum

  • 2 bar spoons Raw Cane Sugar

  • .75 Lime Juice

  • 10-12 Mint Leaves attached to sprigs

  • Sparkling Mineral Water

  • Collins Glass (10 oz)

    Place mint, sugar, and lime juice in Collins glass. Muddle to express mint into sugar lime mix, but not chopping mint. Pour in about 2 oz sparkling water and stir till sugar dissolves. Add rum. Fill glass with medium cube ice. Top with sparkling water.

  • Garnish: Mint Sprigs