Archive for January, 2011

Tower of Tequila at Paradiso 37



Tower of Tequila at Paradiso 37, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

In Downtown Disney Orlando is Paradiso 37. This bar has overpriced food and pricier tequila drinks. One of the few places I’ve been that will allow you to do a ‘tequila tasting’ just like wine tasting. Most memorable is this huge tower of variants of agave tequila. The colors are spectacular.


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Tower of Hooch at Sugars BBQ



Tower of Hooch at Sugars BBQ, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

There is something so beautiful about a backlit liquor bar. I don’t drink much liquor but I love the way colored lights play through those amber bottles. I actually have dozens of similar photos on my iPhone. I might upload a few more soon.


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grilledcheesemartini

Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Martini

Yes, this exists, but only God knows why. A martini infused with rum flavored with grilled cheese sandwich and tomato flavoring.

From the NYTimes blog here:

At Clive’s, a popular craft cocktails joint in Victoria, British Columbia, is an original creation that fuses childhood comfort food and molecular mixology. The result is what he calls a grown-up cocktail equivalent of a “toastie” (an Australianism for a grilled sandwich) and tomato soup.

The bar at Clive’s.Soole starts with his own batch of “grilled cheese rum” — dark, viscous Mt. Gay “washed” overnight with a real-live grilled cheese sandwich, a seeping process to extract essential flavors and infuse them into the rum, before adding fresh-muddled tomato and basil, salt, Lillet Blanc and Glenfiddich Scotch whiskey. The effect is extraordinary: the grilled cheese rum leaps off the palate with flavors of cheddar, bread and butter, mingled with a dark sweetness, while the Lillet Blanc prevents the texture from veering into Bloody Mary territory. Topping the cocktail off with a drop of Glenfiddich adds a hint of off-the-grill smoke and evokes sipping, grilling and dunking.

Yummy? Why not just blend a real grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup and vodka or rum in a blender with ice?


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