As I catch up with my holiday drink blogging, here's my Thanksgiving Day cocktail experience at Clink, one of the restaurants in the Liberty Hotel here in Boston MA.
Finding myself without plans for Thanksgiving, I decided to just have a quiet meal and give thanks in my own introspective way. Getting a last-minute reservation for lunch through OpenTable (which, quite frankly, surprised me by its availability), I headed over fully expecting a very early taste of the dinner menu.
I was a tad disappointed to find that it was the regular lunch only, but decided to compensate by having a cocktail, the Indian Summer. Made with Grey Goose's Le Citron, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, muddled raspberries and water, it tasted rather like a Snapple foray into hard lemonade.
The best thing that I can say about this drink is that the muddling was great! The raspberries were appropriately crushed, and seemed well incorporated into the drink itself:
Overall, I did not care for the drink - there was too much liquid, and the vodka itself settled at the bottom of the water glass, which was far too large for this drink. With less water, smaller slivers of lime garnish, and and of course less raspberry - and served in an appropriately sized glass - it would have been a delightful reminder of warmer days. Instead, it tasted like a drink teen friends would make by doctoring their lemonade with vodka when Mum and Dad weren't looking.
I'll blog more about my experiences in the Liberty Hotel's Lounge area, which are always first-rate..
