Mother’s Day Cocktails
While you should be kind to your mom every day, Mother’s Day is an extra day of care. Here are a few ideas from the hip restaurant Delilah in West Hollywood, California, to get behind the bar and become a mixologist to create lovely and feminine cocktails for her, and let’s admit, probably for you, too.
> Check GAYOT’s Mother’s Day Guide.
• The Jojo •
Ingredients:
1 oz. vodka
0.75 oz. St. Germain
0 .75 oz. lemon juice
2 strawberries
Prosecco
Method:
Muddle strawberries in shaker.
Add all ingredients (except Prosecco) in shaker with ice.
Shake and fine strain into glass.
Top off with Prosecco.
Garnish with a slice of strawberry.
• Sienna Nuevo •
Ingredients:
2 oz. tequila
0.5 oz. Aperol
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. passion fruit syrup
4 dashes spicy bitters
Method:
Combine everything in a shaker and long shake.
Strain over ice into a glass with a spicy rim.
Garnish with a few flowers on the top of the cube.
• Tin Pin Alley •
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. mezcal
0.5 oz. gin
0.5 oz. St. Germain
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. raspberry syrup
2 dashes of bitters
1 oz. egg white
Mint leaves
Method:
Combine everything and dry shake.
Add ice and long shake.
Strain into a coupe with two ice cubes in it. Garnish with a few mint leaves.
