Hanging out on a cool patio sippin’ a few cocktails while listening to a band and having brunch is a perfect way to spend a warm weather day.
Brunch is a blank slate, a blank canvas waiting to be painted! Carving stations of ham, roast beef and turkey. Platters of smoked salmon, and crab legs, rashers of bacon and sausage, pancakes, waffles, French toast… WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?
Let’s jazz it up with some great local flavors:
Lockhouse Distilleries
41 Columbia St.
Sakura Gin
Cherry Blossom Gin: infused with Cherry Blossoms which have fallen from the trees in Olmstead Parks.
Bee’s Knee’s
2oz Sakura Gin
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz Honey Syrup
Pour into a cocktail shaker w/ ice
Shake well and strain into a chilled coupe glass up.
Garnish w/ a Cherry Blossom or any edible flower.
Cherry Rickey
2oz Sakura Gin
1oz fresh lime juice
1/2oz lime simple syrup
splash club soda
Pour over ice into an Old Fashioned Glass
Top w/ Club Soda, Garnish with a lime wheel and a Cherry Blossom.
Tommy Rotter Distillery
Small batch Vodka or Gin. 500 Seneca St.
Greyhound/Salty Dog
2oz Tommy Rotter Vodka or Gin
Fresh Grapefruit Juice to fill.
Pour into tall juice glass filled with ice
For Salty Dog rim the glass w/ salt.
Niagara Distilling Co.
1812 Vodka 459 Ellicott St
1812 Harvey Wallbanger
2oz 1812 Vodka
Fresh OJ to fill
3/4oz Galliano
Pour 1812 and OJ into tall juice glass filled w/ice
Top w/ Galliano
The Barrel Factory
Lakeward Spirits Grain Canyon Vodka
Grain Canyon Basil Lime Gimlet
2oz Grain Canyon Vodka
Juice of 1/2 Lime
1/2oz Lime simple syrup
Several fresh Basil leaves
1/2 Lime and Wheel for garnish
Place all of the ingredients except wheel, into a cocktail shaker and muddle until Basil is shredded, add ice and shake well.
Strain into a chilled coupe glass up, or over ice in an Old Fashioned Glass
Garnish w/ Lime Wheel and a sprig of Basil.
Other notable Distilleries in Buffalo:
Buffalo Distilling Co 860 Seneca St
Black Squirrel Distillery Elmwood and Amherst St.
Jonathan Boas
jboas247@gmail.com
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