Apartment Therapy Tagged: summer cocktail

Straight Up: Lillet Blanc and James Bond Casino Royale (a.k.a. "Vesper") Martinis

Citrusy and spicy, with a honeyed texture and the golden color of a summer sunset, Lillet Blanc is the perfect pre-dinner patio drink for a lazy June day....

Straight Up: How to Make the Best Ice Cubes for Summer Cocktails

With the mercury tickling the top of the thermometer this week, today at Straight Up, it's All About Ice. All ice cubes are not created equal. And while you might not know it, these little frozen blo...

Straight Up: Using Roses in Cocktails

The rose garden is coming to the glass. Rose water. Rose syrup. Hendrick's cucumber and rose-infused gin. Sweetly ephemeral, with a hint of loamy darkness, these velvety blooms are lending their gent...

Straight Up: Will You Help Save the Daiquiri?

A tart, cool thirst-quencher that merges the rich warmth of rum with the zippy tang of lime, the Daiquiri is the perfect cocktail to put even the most office cubicle-weary of us in an island mood. B...

Survey: Have You Campari-ed Lately?

Ah, Campari. Campari brings herbal excellence to grapefruit sorbet and slides into some soda water for an inspired aperitivo. Yet, we must admit, we forget Campari's excellence and do not serve it o...

Summer Cocktails! The Full Roundup

It's been a full Memorial Day here - we hope you've enjoyed all the cocktail coverage. We're just getting going on our summer entertaining so we'll return to these recipes frequently. As you gather wi...

Recipe: Elderflower Cordial Cocktail

After our recent brush with a British expat rhapsodizing over elderflower syrup in cocktails, we realized that while we love this IKEA staple in our soda water, we don't often mix it into our cocktail...

Summer Cocktails: An Ode to Gin and Tonic (with Lime)

There are certain non-negotiables in the admittedly small world of our cocktail cabinet. We are not big drinkers, but we do enjoy a well-mixed drink, and the lure of frosty cocktails is very strong in...

Vanilla, Pear and Sage: Summer Cocktail with Navan

Vanilla, pear, and sage? Sounds like the makings of a great dessert. How about a cocktail? Well, sure. We received this cocktail recipe from the makers of Navan, a vanilla cognac from France and were ...

Limoncello! Limonada with Limoncello and Tequila

Limoncello is a heavenly concoction made up (of course) by Southern Italians. It's blessedly simple: take the peel off a bunch of lemons, steep them with sugar syrup in a bottle or two of grain liquor...

Basil Gimlet and The Flash: Cocktail Recipes from Rye

Rye is a cocktail bar on Geary Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco (the slowly gentrifying part of the Tenderloin, otherwise known as the Tender Nob). They've quickly won a following an...

Summer Cocktail: The Fresh Mango Sweet Escape

Mango! We adore our sweet and creamy mango lassi, spiked with cardamom, but we hadn't thought about a mango cocktail. Then we received this recipe from the National Mango Board. ...

Even More Basil Cocktails: Strawberry, Lemon, and Vodka

It seems as if Elizabeth picked up on a trend this week. Basil cocktails are everywhere! Crisp lemon and tequila, strawberry puree with flavored vodka and more below. ...

Recipe: Lemon Verbena and Orange Blossom Fizz

Fizzy, cold and herbal - that's what we want out of our drinks this time of year. We're trying to break out of our gin and tonic rut, and for our spread of Memorial Day cocktails (all summer cocktails...

Summer Cocktail: Bourbon Mint Tea

It's a little early in the day to start drinking, but it's not too early to start making sweet, cold, Southern mint tea. So if a little bourbon happened to make its way in... ...

Summer Cocktails All Day Long! Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day from The Kitchn. We hope that you have a day off from work and that you are enjoying it. We have a whole day of cool and fizzy spring and summer cocktails for sipping on your day of...

Long Weekend? Come Have a Cocktail in The Kitchn

Happy Memorial Day weekend - the unofficial start of summer. We've been posting spring and summer cocktails all week, and we're not finished. We'll be around all weekend, posting lightly, and then we'...

Straight Up: Using Shiso in Cocktails (Mojitos and More)

I’ve always loved shiso’s distinctive peppery-bright flavor. While the softly furred, frill-edged leaves have the texture, piquancy, and slight sweetness of fresh mint, their complex flavor also b...

Summer Cocktail: The Americano

In our week of summer cocktails so far we've had some new concoctions, like The Cuke and The Pickletini. We've had herbed drinks and a fresh cocktail with beer. Now for another direction. When the wea...

Summer Cocktail: The Cuke

When the air heats up and we're trying to stay cool as a cucumber (pun intended!) we love this cocktail. It combines cucumbers, limes, mint, and one of our favorite gins, Hendrick's....

Kick Off the Season With Spring and Summer Cocktails: Spiked Boba from The New York Times

Memorial Day is a week from today; we can scarcely believe it! To celebrate the informal beginning of the summer season we are giving you a warm weather cocktail recipe every day this week. We'll lead...

Straight Up: Pimm's Cup for the English Gardener

Cool and crisp, with a citrusy, herbaceous tang, served over tinkling cubes of ice, Pimm’s Cup is the quintessential British summer drink. Although this tall refresher is most famously enjoyed by sp...

Straight Up: Rhubarb is Springing Up in Warm-Weather Drinks

Rhubarb is one of the surest signs of spring for us, stirring up childhood memories of warm afternoons spent on the porch steps with friends, dipping the stringy pink-green stalks into little cups of ...

Straight Up: Raw Egg Whites in Cocktails (and Ramos Gin Fizzes) Are Back!

Raw egg whites. They're not just for your breakfast glass of Tiger's Milk anymore. With the recent revival of certain pre-Prohibition cocktails, they've been finding their way back into some spectacul...

Straight Up: DIY Simple Syrup

With warm-weather-drinks season fast approaching (Mojitos, Caipirinhas, Mint Juleps!), now’s a good time to stock up on a key ingredient in many refreshing summer cocktails: simple syrup....

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