8 - 10 oz. - Highball

Floradora

About The Cocktail

This cocktail is said to have originated at the Waldorf Astoria and was named after the Florodora, a fictional fragrance from the Broadway place of the same name. This was both a homage to the six starlets of Florodora that captured New Yorks imagination and to its playwright, Jimmy Davis, whose extravagant lifestyle and gambling makes for a story more fascinating then the play itself. The pseudonym, Owen Hall, for which he wrote the play under was actually a pun on ‘Owin All’ alluding to the constant financial debt that he’d accumulate.

Ingredients

1 oz Desgin Gin
½ oz Lime Juice
½ oz Framboise Liquor
1 splash Ginger Ale

Garnish

1 Orange Wedge

Process

Shake Gin, Lime and Framboise together then double strain into Collins glass.
Add ice and top with Ginger Ale.
Garnish with Orange Wedge.

8 - 10 oz. - Highball

Tom Collins

About The Cocktail

This refreshing cocktail emerged from the private clubs of London, arriving in New York during the 1850s and was catalogued by Jerry Thomas in his 1876 recipe. It possibly originating from the John Collins cocktail with the substitution of Tom for John occurring on Thomas’s insistence of using Old Tom Gin in his recipe. Tom never actually existed despite the great Tom Collins hoax of 1974 where people were told by their acquaintances that a man by that name had been slandering their reputation at the local bar. When this friend showed up hoping for a confrontation and asked the bartender for Tom Collins, they were instead served this bubbly cocktail.

Ingredients

2 oz Desgin Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Simple Syrup
1 splash Soda Water

Garnish

1 Lemon Wheel

Process

Build ingredients in Collins glass.
Top off with soda water.
Garnish with lemon wheel