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Americano €10
Cinzano 1757 Red Vermouth
Bitter Campari
Soda water
HISTORY: Created in Italy in the early twentieth century. The name recalls America and the typical way of drinking on the rocks, in old-fashioned glasses, a fashion launched at that time in contrast to the prevailing trend. Many stories are associated with this drink, for example it’s considered a tribute to Primo Carrera, the great boxer called ‘the American’.

Negroni €10
Cinzano 1757 Vermouth Rosso
Bitter Campari
Bickens London Dry Gin*
Negroni Sbagliato: Prosecco*
Negrosky: Vodka Sky*

HISTORY: It was born in Italy in 1919 at Caffè Casoni in Florence, from the intuition of the heavy drinker Count Camillo Negroni and from the hands of the bartender Fosco Scarselli. The Count, who didn’t like the soda water in the Americano, suggested to Scarselli to replace it with gin, a distillate he had the opportunity to appreciate during a journey.

Martini Cocktail €10
Bickens London Dry Gin
Vermut Extra Dry

HISTORY: It originated between 1900 and 1920, but it doesn’t have the name of its creator. There are so many people who claim the paternity: Martinez, bartender from New York, Angelo Zola, Harry Johnson, that took inspiration from a cocktail by Jerry Thomas and many others. You know, Everyone wants to get on the bandwagon.

Hugo Spritz €11
St-Germain
Extra Dry Prosecco
Soda water
HISTORY: In n Austrian, the term spritz indicated the act of ‘spraying’ seltz in white wine to dilute it. In Italy the recipe is that of Padua and includes prosecco, seltz and Barbieri Aperol, a local citrus flavored bitters.

John Collins €10
Bickens London Dry Gin
Lemon juice
Sugar syrup
Soda water

HISTORY: According to some researchers the cocktail was created in the late nineteenth century by John Collins, bartender of the famous Limmer’s Old House in London. In the first version was used an Old Tom Gin (hence the name distorted in Tom Collins), which was then replaced by Jenever, the progenitor of gin, and finally by London Dry.Only in 1876 Jerry Thomas codified the cocktail. Thomas, sublime executore and great systematiser, was the first to catalogue by type all cocktails, liquors and cordials of the world in the 1862 book How To Mix Drinks.

Moscow Mule €10
Sky Straight Vodka
Lime juice
Thomas Henry Spicy Ginger Beer

HISTORY: Cocktail created in 1946. At that time Jack Morgan, who was trying to distribute on the market his Ginger Beer, met John Martin, who had recently bought the distribution rights in the United States of the recipe for a new Vodka of the Smirnov family. They thought to combine their products adding a splash of lime and to serve the drink in copper mugs, fabricated by a friend of theirs. They started a trend that, from the most prestigious clubs in New York and Miami, has now conquered the whole world.

Bramble €10
Bickens London Dry Gin
Lemon juice
Sugar syrup
Blackberry liqueur

HISTORY: It dates back to the 1980s and was invented by Dick Bradsell in London’s Soho district at Fred’s Club. To create the drink he was inspired by his childhood, when he used to pick blackberries.

Boulevardier €10
Wild Turkey 81 Whiskey Bourbon
Cinzano 1757 Red Vermouth
Bitter Campari

HISTORY: Created in 1927 as a variant of Negroni, it was prepared by the legendary Harry McElhone at Harry’s Bar in Paris for the writer Erskine Gwynne.  The name is a tribute to the fashion monthly magazine Boulevardier, edited by the same writer.

Paper Plane €10
Wild Turkey Whiskey Bourbon
Aperol
Amaro Montenegro
Lemon juice

HISTORY: Invented in 2007 by Sam Ross, also creator of Penicillin and  co-owner of the Attaboy of New York (formerly Milk&Honey), the Paper Plane takes its name from a song by British rapper M.I.A., of whom Ross is an admirer. Cocktail with a taste similar to Whiskey Sour, but with fruity notes.

Old Fashioned €10
Wild Turkey 81 Whiskey Bourbon
o Wild Turkey Rye
Sugar cube
Angostura Bitters
Soda water

HISTORY: A classic of American mixing. Invented in 1900 not in a bar, but in a Kentucky saloon, it’s considered by many not a cocktail, but a way of drinking whiskey. Actually, the drink was created to dilute the taste of smuggled whiskey, of poor and dubious quality.

Cosmopolitan €10
Lemon infused Sky Vodka
Cranberry juice
Lemon juice
Sugar syrup

HISTORY: The drink originated in the gay community of Provine Town, Massachusetts, with the name of Stealth Martini. The pink color, given by the cranberry, is for diversify it from other Martini and to give a peculiar nuance to the drink. In 1970 it changed its name to Cosmopolitan. Cheryl Cook proposed it with cedar vodka, while Toby Cecchini reworked it with Cointreau and a flambe squeeze of orange zest, changing the scents. It’s the favorite drink of Madonna and of the girls of Sex and the City.

Manhattan €10
Wild Tuekey Whiskey Rye
Cinzano 1757 Red Vermouth
Angostura Bitters

HISTORY: Drink that made history in the twentieth century, fruit of a love affair. It is said that during a cocktail party in New York for S.J. Tilden who was running for the US presidency, there was also Lord Rendolph Churchill and in that occasion Jenny Jerome, daughter of the New York Times owner, invented the cocktail that delighted guests and, in particular, Lord Rendolph Churchill, who wanted to know the author of such a delicacy. It was love at first sight, and from their union Sir was born Winston Churchill.

Bloody Mary €10
Sky Straight Vodka
Tomato juice
Lemon juice
Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco
Celery Bitters
Salt and pepper

HISTORY: Created in America by French bartender Ferdinand Petiot in 1920, the cocktail is inspired by Mary I of England also known as Bloody Mary. The characteristic red tomato, in fact, refers to the macabre history of Bloody Mary.

Alaska €10
Bickens London Dry Gin
Yellow Chartreuse
Orange Bitter

HISTORY: It has a very uncertain origin, but it seems to be established that it was created in the state of South Carolina and not in Alaska as the name would suggests. The first traces of the drink are found in the famous The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock published in 1920 and, even before, in the famous Straub’s Manual Of Mixed Drink by Jacques Straub, published in 1913.

Sour €10
Base liquor*
Lemon juice
Sugar syrup
Vegetable thickener
Base liquor*: Vodka, Gin,
Whiskey, Rum, Tequila, etc.
Pisco Sour €12

HISTORY: Family of mixed drinks containing a base liquor, lemon or lime juice and sweetener. They appear in the 1862 guide How To Mix Drinks by Jerry Thomas.

Trinidad Sour €10
Wild Turkey 81 Whiskey Bourbon
Lime juice
Orgeat syrup
Angostura Bitters

HISTORY: Invented in 2009 by the New York bartender Giuseppe Gonzàlez, it’s inspired by the cocktail Trinidad Especial with which the Italian barman Valentino Bolognese won the gold medal at the Angostura European Cocktail Competition in 2008. In Trinidad Sour Pisco is replaced by Rye Whiskey.

Old Cuban €10
Añejo Cuban Rum
Lime juice
Sugar syrup
Mint leaves
Angostura Bitters
Prosecco

HISTORY: In 2004 the barmaid Audrey Saunders at the counter of the Pegu Club in New York invented a drink combining two great classics, Mojito and French 75. Initially its name was El Cubano, it changed in Old Cuban when the white rum was replaced with the añejo rum.

Cuba Libre €10
Cuban white Rum
Lime juice
Cola

HISTORY: The history of the drink is uncertain, probably due to the achievement of Cuba’s independence from Spain: the American and Cuban soldiers, in fact, would have combined two respective typical drinks, Coca-Cola and Rum, to celebrate the victory over the Spanish army.

Daiquiri €10
Cuban white Rum
Lime juice
Cola

HISTORY: It comes in 1896 from the creativity of the mining engineers Cox and Pagliuchi that, waiting for the visit of one of their boss, mixed what was available: Rum of dubious quality, lime and cane sugar. Cox said that the drink was technically a Rum Sour, a name considered too sad by Pagliuchi: So, they decided together to name it after Daiquiri, the beautiful beaches near the mines. Ernest Hemingway also contributed to the success of the drink that the writer use to drink at Floridita. One of his famous phrases is: “My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita”.

Mojito €10
Cuban white Rum
Lime juice
White cane sugar
Mint leaves
Soda water

HISTORY: With the Daiquiri it’s considered the national drink of Cuba. It was born around the ‘30s, but in the ‘50s achieved fame thanks, once more, to Hemingway. The most impressive hypothesis about the birth of the name refers to the voodoo mojo, which means spell. Definitely one of the most famous and captivating drinks in the history.

Jungle Bird €10
Añejo Cuban Rum
Bitters Campari
Lime juice
Pineapple juice
Sugar syrup

HISTORY: It dates back to the ‘70s and was created by Jeffrey Ong in the Aviary Hotel bar: Hence the name of the drink, which is said it was served in a bird-shaped porcelain vase.

Mai-Tai €10
Kingstone Jamaican Añejo Rum
Trois Rivieres Rhum Blanc Agricole Dry Orange Curaçao
Lime juice
Orgeat syrup

HISTORY: Literally means the best in Tahitian. The authorship is disputed between Don The Beachcomber, promoter of the Tiki culture, and his rival, Trader Vic. The latter, unlike the first, has two Tahitians as witnesses who saw him preparing the drink: once tasted they exclaimed “Mai-Tai Ro’ae”, that means “It’s divine, the best”.

Margarita €10
Esplon Tequila Blanco 100% Agave
Triple Sec
Lime juice
Salt (on the rim of the glass)

HISTORY: The drink was created in honor of the Hollywood star Marjorie King, guest at the Hotel La Gloria Ranch in Tijuana, Mexico, by Danny Herrera, owner of the bar and hotel, in love with the actress. According to legend, Marjorie King, allergic to gin, asked for a version of the Italian drink White Lady with tequila as base liquor, which she loved.

Paloma €10
Esplon Tequila Blanco 100% Agave Lime juice
Agave nectar
Thomas Henry pink grapefruit Soda Salt (on the rim of the glass)

HISTORY: Mexican aperitif cocktail, fresh and aromatic. There is no certain information about his origin, but it’s a common belief that he was created by Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner and bartender of La Capilla in Tequila. It’s certain that the place where it was created is the state of Jalisco, in Mexico.

 

 

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