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Toast to a past! Enjoy cocktails from a Prohibition epoch during these Mumbai bar
- Updated: February 7, 2017
Blood Sand during Out of The Blue, Pics/Shadab Khan
Blood Sand
This cocktail traces a recipe to Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. It has orange extract churned with scotch, equal tools of cherry (or liqueur) and martini rosso. “It became famous since of a movie, Blood and Sand, by Rudolph Valentino. He didn’t know what to call a splash so he called it Blood Sand since he graphic himself celebration it on a beach,” says Valentine Barboza, bar consultant during Out of a Blue. “This is a splash best appreciated by people who know their alcohol.”
At Le Sutra Hotel, 14 Union Park, Khar (W).
Call 30770113
Cost Rs 925
Bee’s Knees
The word ‘bee’s knees’ in Prohibition times was jargon for ‘the best’. “In those days, a ethanol was brewed during home; sometimes, clandestinely and during times, even in a bathtub,” reveals Saloni Rupani, partner, Dishkiyaoon. This cocktail is done with gin, orange and honey. It was believed that a further of citrus and sugarine could cover a smell and ambience of bathtub gin. The splash is served chilled.
At Ground floor, The Capital Building, G Block, BKC.
Call 8291139404
Cost Rs 450 and taxes
White Lady
This lady has a contested past. Some contend a splash was initial combined in 1919 as a reverence to a singer Mata Hari, while others contend it came from a bartending bible, The Savoy Cocktail Book. The White Lady is a frothy, spicy splash done with gin, Cointreau, orange and egg white. A movement of another classic, a Sidecar, it belongs to a family of cocktails famous as ‘sours’.
Bartender Neil Lopez prepares a White Lady. Pics/ Sneha Kharabe
At Matahaari, turn IV, Atria Mall, Dr Annie Besant Road, Lotus Colony, Worli.
Call 67363636
Cost Rs 800
Whiskey sour
The whiskey green is a elementary drink, meant to deliver non-whiskey drinkers to a liquor. It’s story is contentious: a recipe initial appears in an 1862 book of The Bartender’s Guide, yet some contend it’s been around for longer. The splash became renouned during Prohibition days, that saw variations of it, including Boston Sour, Hari Kari and Ward 8. Chef Vicky Ratnani’s chronicle has smoked bourbon, an egg white, uninformed orange extract and sugarine syrup.
At The Korner House, 21, Union Park Road, Union Park, Khar (W).
Call 65503344
Cost Rs 650 and taxes
South Side
A splash identical to Bee’s Knees, South Side is also done with gin, packet and green mix. “In those days, people didn’t have many reduction so they chose a simplest ones that could be found in their possess homes. We use a orange juice, sugarine syrup and dejected packet and leaves, tip it off with solitaire and shake a whole reduction so it merges well,” says bar manager Rohit Hegde. The drink, he says, is really renouned with the non-Indian patrons. “Indians aren’t too lustful of gin. Even yet this is identical to a mojito in essence, they cite their vodka and rum,” he adds. The grill also serves a Ward 8 (R400) — a whiskey, orange extract and green brew combination.
At The Daily Bar Kitchen, belligerent floor, behind Shoppers Stop, SV Road, Bandra (W).
Call 9920446633
Cost Rs 400