Cocktail Spotlight - Lavish HOT Summer Elixirs

Enjoy these fresh summer cocktails available along with many others at Lavish Lounge. These cocktails scream summer and are sooo good. We will have a collection of specialty martinis, margaritas, mojitos, daiquiris, and shooters. It looks very promising that we will re-open on June 20th with a new seasonal cocktail menu restrictions per NYS guidelines

Lake House

2 oz. aged Jamaican rum

¾ oz. passion fruit syrup

¾ oz. fresh lime juice

½ oz. pineapple juice

¼ oz. maraschino liqueur

¼ oz. Campari

Garnish - pineapple slice, orange peel, edible flowers

Method - Shake all ingredients with 1 cup of crushed ice. Strain into a collins glass and add more crushed ice to fill. Garnish.

Hemingway Daiquiri

1 ½ oz. 10 Cane rum

¾ oz. Luxardo maraschino liqueur

1 oz.  freshly squeezed lime juice

¾ oz. freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice

¼ oz. simple syrup

Garnish -1 lime wheel & 1 brandied cherry, for garnish

Method - Pour the rum, liqueur, juices, and syrup into a mixing glass. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled cocktail or coupe glass. Garnish with the lime-cherry “flag” (a citrus wheel skewered with a brandied cherry).

Cucumber-Lemon Mojito

1 ½ oz white rum

½ fresh lemon juice

6-8 mint leaves

3 hothouse cucumber slice without skin

1 tsp sugar or simple syrup

Seltzer

Garnish – lemon slice, mint sprig, & cucumber slice with skin

Method - Lightly muddle the mint and cucumber in a mixing glass. Add the rum, lime juice, simple syrup and ice and give it a shake. Dump contents into a highball glass or large rocks glass. Top with seltzer. Garnish with a mint sprig and lemon wheel.

Watermelon Margarita

½ oz agave syrup (nectar diluted with water)

1 ½ oz blanco tequila

½ oz triple sec

½ oz fresh lime juice

3 chunks of seedless watermelon

optional salt on rim

Garnish - watermelon slice and/or lime slice

Method – Muddle slices of watermelon. Add the remaining ingredients plus ice, shake, and double-strain into a glass filled with ice. Garnish with a watermelon slice and/or lime slice.

Cheers,

Michael