Cold summertime cocktails. So hot right now. We’re visiting the best, trendiest hotel bars to find you the tastiest summer cocktails in NYC. Not only have we got the photos, we’ve got the recipes — directly from the bartenders — so you can make them at home. Grab your martini glass and hit the deck, you’re having a cocktail party.
This week we've got The Standard Hotel. Previously, we've taste-tested The James Hotel and Hilton New York Fashion District.
DRINK #1: Whiskey Punch
Ingredients
- 2 oz rye whiskey
- 1 oz lemon juice
- ½ oz orange juice
- 1 oz simple syrup
- Prosecco
To make
Pour all ingredients except Prosecco into mixing glass with ice. Shake and strain into tall glass with crushed ice. Add Prosecco.
Garnish with an orange twist.
DRINK #2: Cosmonaut
Ingredients
- 2 oz vodka
- 2 oz Lillet
- 1 oz elderflower cordial
To make
Shake all ingredients and strain into martini glass.
Garnish with an orange twist.
DRINK #3: Raspberry Ricky
Ingredients
- 2 oz gin
- 2 spoons fresh bramble mix*
- 1 oz sour soda
To make
Pour all ingredients except soda into mixing glass with ice. Shake and pour into tall glass with ice. Add soda.
Garnish with raspberries.
*The bramble mix is made in-house by cooking berries in sugar until the berries make their own juice. This is taken off the flame before the beries break, so the mix consists of whole berries with a sweet syrup.
DRINK #4: Jalisco Gimlet
Ingredients
- 2 oz tequila
- 1 oz lime juice
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 1 oz grapefruit juice
To make
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into martini glass. Top with lime zest.
Garnish with grapefruit.
DRINK #5: Rickshaw
Ingredients
- 2 oz bourbon
- Ginger beer
To make
Fill with ginger beer.
Serve in a high ball glass with crushed ice.
Garnish with a lime wedge.
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