Cocktails at Mr. Sid's Lounge

Obituary Cocktail

2 ounces gin
1/4 ounce dry vermouth
1/4 ounce pastis

Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Old Cuban

3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce simple syrup
1 1/2 ounce rum (Bacardi 8 Anejo)
2 dashes Angostura bitters
6 mint leaves
2 ounces champagne (Veuve Clicquot)

Muddle lime juice, syrup, mint in a mixing glass. Add rum, bitters, ice, and shake well. Strain into cocktail glass, and top with champagne. Garnish with sugar-coated vanilla bean. Created by: Audrey Saunders (2002)

Old Fashioned

1/2 orange slice
1 cube sugar
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 ounces rye or bourbon whiskey

Muddle orange, sugar, bitters together until the sugar is mostly dissolved. Fill glass with ice, then add the whiskey. Garnish with a marachino cherry, and perhaps an additional orange slice. Serve with a swizzle stick and/or straw

Old Pal

1 ounce rye or bourbon whiskey
3/4 ounce dry vermouth
3/4 ounce Campari

Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Opera

2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce Dubonnet
1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
1 dash orange bitters

Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a Lemon Twist.

Oyster Sake Shooter

1 freshly shucked Fanny Bay oyster
Yolk of 1 quail egg.
1 teaspoon tobiko (flying fish roe)
1/2 teaspoon ponzu (citrus-soy blend)
pinch of minced green onion
Onikoroshi ("Devil Killer") daiginjo sake