Cocktail Of The Week: Bar Flor’s Margarita – Recipe

The impulse down this was people’s enduring emotion of a margarita. We mostly look to sherries aliases vermouths arsenic cardinal ingredients successful our cocktails, but for this we wanted thing that our guests would consciousness astatine easiness with, while besides being a small intrigued. Mezcal’s steaming notes activity really good pinch nan citrus notes successful a classical margarita, truthful we opted for that arsenic nan guidelines spirit, alternatively than tequila, while nan summation of manzanilla lends nan portion a lovely, complementary nuttiness.

Flor margarita

Serves 1

30ml mezcal
30ml manzanilla
15ml Cointreau, aliases different orangish liqueur
25ml caller lime juice
Tajín, aliases salt, to rim nan solid (optional)

Pour everything into a shaker filled pinch ice, past shingle and strain into a rocks solid rimmed pinch Tajín aliases salt, if you wish. Add a mates of crystal cubes and serve.

• Elinor Blair, barroom manager, Bar Flor astatine Wildflowers, London SW1