Cocktails that pair with
Across 2 related dishes — most-paired first.
Highball & long drinks
Dark rum, ginger beer, lime. Caribbean fire — cuts through fatty foods.
Roasty, citrus-cream, or boozy-sweet pours layer onto frozen desserts as temperature contrast.
Works with Coconut Gelato · Talenti Caribbean Coconut Gelato
Martini family
Vodka, fresh espresso, coffee liqueur. Dessert and digestif in one.
Roasty, citrus-cream, or boozy-sweet pours layer onto frozen desserts as temperature contrast.
Works with Coconut Gelato · Talenti Caribbean Coconut Gelato
Classic & stirred
Bourbon, Campari, sweet vermouth. The whiskey Negroni — richer, less bitter.
Roasted, caramel, dried-fruit, and oak-warm pours bring out nut sweetness and balance salt.
Shaken sours
White rum, fresh lime, sugar. The simplest, brightest sour ever invented.
Rum-and-citrus, ginger-warm, and tropical-fruit pours sit in the same heat-and-sweet pocket as the cuisine.
Tropical & tiki
Light + dark rum, passion fruit, lime, sugar. New Orleans Mardi Gras.
Rum-and-citrus, ginger-warm, and tropical-fruit pours sit in the same heat-and-sweet pocket as the cuisine.
Tropical & tiki
Aged rum, orgeat, orange curaçao, lime. Tiki royalty.
Rum-and-citrus, ginger-warm, and tropical-fruit pours sit in the same heat-and-sweet pocket as the cuisine.
Classic & stirred
Rye, sweet vermouth, bitters, brandied cherry. The quintessential brown-spirit cocktail.
Roasted, caramel, dried-fruit, and oak-warm pours bring out nut sweetness and balance salt.
Tropical & tiki
White rum, mint, lime, sugar, soda. Cuban summer in a glass.
Rum-and-citrus, ginger-warm, and tropical-fruit pours sit in the same heat-and-sweet pocket as the cuisine.
Bourbon & American whiskey
Bourbon or rye, sugar, bitters, orange.
Roasted, caramel, dried-fruit, and oak-warm pours bring out nut sweetness and balance salt.
Classic & stirred
Rye, absinthe rinse, sugar, Peychauds bitters. New Orleans dark and aromatic.
Roasted, caramel, dried-fruit, and oak-warm pours bring out nut sweetness and balance salt.
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