Recipe: Five drinks that suck - Tiki Drinks and Food

T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Tue, Dec 7, 2004 2:21 PM On 2004-11-30 15:57, Trader Woody wrote: Well done for trying out some of the less fashionable drinks! There are so many cocktails out there that are so old and unused that you can practically taste the accumulated dust of decades of nobody trying them out. Perhaps we should kick off a thread of trying out unfashionable drinks seemingly lost in the mist of time. Trader Woody In Barcelona I went to a bar named Boadas. They have been in business since 1933 when a bartender from the Floridita bar in Havana opened the place. It is a glorious cocktail lounge, and the white-jacketed, bow-tied staff serve a different cocktail del dia each day. I had not heard of the drink so I tried it and was pleasantly surprised. I have since forgotten the name of the drink as well as the ingredients. On the second visit I tried that day's cocktail and it was a winner as well. I believe they are one of the last remaining bars to revive old long-forgotten drinks. More info: http://www.drinkboy.com/Bars/Barcelona/Boadas.html I think a thread of long lost cocktail recipes is a great idea.

On 2004-11-30 15:57, Trader Woody wrote:
Well done for trying out some of the less fashionable drinks! There are so many cocktails out there that are so old and unused that you can practically taste the accumulated dust of decades of nobody trying them out.

Perhaps we should kick off a thread of trying out unfashionable drinks seemingly lost in the mist of time.

Trader Woody

In Barcelona I went to a bar named Boadas. They have been in business since 1933 when a bartender from the Floridita bar in Havana opened the place. It is a glorious cocktail lounge, and the white-jacketed, bow-tied staff serve a different cocktail del dia each day. I had not heard of the drink so I tried it and was pleasantly surprised. I have since forgotten the name of the drink as well as the ingredients. On the second visit I tried that day's cocktail and it was a winner as well. I believe they are one of the last remaining bars to revive old long-forgotten drinks.

More info:
http://www.drinkboy.com/Bars/Barcelona/Boadas.html

I think a thread of long lost cocktail recipes is a great idea.

Post #129478 by thejab on Tue, Dec 7, 2004 2:21 PM