Category: romance
Cocktails: How to fail at picking up ladies, and the fabulous flavored cube
There are so many wrong ways to meet women.
On our way to a cocktail adventure downtown, my gal pal and I added a few more to that list. Here’s one: A dark-colored car with tinted windows pulled up alongside us. Then an unseen driver slowly lowered his driver-side window to reveal just a hand, palm up, and fingers beckoning in a “Bitches, come here.” gesture.
Nope.
Here’s another: A guy stopped his car on the corner at a green light, angry drivers honking behind him, while he’s shouting lame come-ons at us with a huge, pervy grin on his face.
Really big nope!
And then there was this just around the corner.
Yeah, nope again. But kudos for originality!
Hm. Maybe?
I mean, what woman could resist a suave, fashion-forward icon like Austin Powers, even a reasonable facsimile thereof, am I right, ladies?
After that obstacle course of weirdness, we made it to the bar and grabbed seats in front of the bartender.
Because we like to watch the magic happen.
The Single Knight cocktail at Luc Lac’s bar was a game-changing, Whoa!-inducing twist on the Old Fashioned cocktail that made our tastebuds do a double-take. First, a large cube made of deeply smokey Lapsang Souchong tea was placed in the glass. This was followed with their sigh-inducing blend of bourbon, pho syrup, and angostura orange bitters. But wait, there’s more! The finishing touch was a lemon twist, wrapped around a blowtorched bourbon cherry and cloves! Daaaamn!
When I order cocktails that arrive with a large, slow-melting cube, I usually leave it alone for a couple of minutes before I take a sip. This is so a little of the ice will melt into the mix and make it less syrupy. One sip of the Single Knight and MIND BLOWN! The smokiness from the melting tea cube adding to the bourbon, further flavored by zest with burnt cherry and cloves – I was caught up in a swirl of amazingness.
Citrus with burnt fruit and spice was all kinds of nice (especially in a bourbon), but that giant cube made of smokey Lapsang Souchong tea made me realize flavored ice cubes that bring out another flavor dimension in cocktails really is a thing!
Single Knight Cocktail at the Luc Lac bar
I wish I had the recipe for this cocktail. However, I do have the ingredients list. Cheers!:
Four Roses single barrel bourbon
Pho syrup
Angostura orange bitters
Lapsang Souchong tea ice cube
Bourbon cherry
Cloves
Lemon zest
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