Perhaps one of the best examples of this tableside service is the famed Martini Trolley at The Connaught. A white-gloved bartender preparing a Martini to your specs is the level everyone hopes to achieve, the theatre adding to the beverage and the admiring looks from other diners around the room.
Tag: Negroni
Bar Conte: Sydney’s newest aperitivo style bar showcasing the best parts of Italian drinking culture
Bar Conte is a Negroni focused aperitivo bar that boasts 20 variations of the classic cocktail.
Rescued from relative obscurity by the craft cocktail revolution, the Negroni is now a fixture on ‘most popular’ and ‘need to know’ lists worldwide and even my local pub, not renowned for its mixology, is happy to whip one up.
“I chose beetroot because I love the flavour. Its earthy and fruity, kind of like Campari. Putting it in a Negroni just made sense. To get that ‘real’ beetroot flavour, I simply extracted the juice and compounded it into a homemade grenadine…” – Angus Payne, Bartender
What the world needs right now is a good drink, like this Negroni for Two from The Gidley in Sydney.
It’s equal parts bourbon, sweet vermouth, and Campari, and so named for a socialite American who owned a magazine called The Boulevardier.
From the 4th to the 10th of June, bars and restaurants across Australia are invited to participate in this event and donate a portion of their Negroni sales to a charity of their choice.
According to the most popular origin tale, the Negroni wasn’t invented until around the 1920s. But there would be no Negroni without the invention of its key ingredient Campari and the subsequent Americano cocktail which all happened way back in the 1860s.