Red Lion
October 29, 2024
Recipe on foodandwine.com.
For once, a cocktail with a clear history! This drink was invented by a bartender named Arthur Tarling, who was the head bartender at London’s Café Royal. He named it Red Lion and entered the drink into The British Empire Cocktail Competition in 1933. It won first prize! Yay, Arthur! Unique to this drink, most cocktail competition winners don’t make it on to standard drinks lists, but this one did. The drink is named after the red lion on the label of Booth’s Gin.
This drink is gin, Grand Marnier (my first drink to use this), lemon juice, and orange juice. There is sugar on the rim – my first time doing that, too. Makes a pretty drink. The drink is smooth and citrus-ey. I can imagine mixing up a batch of these and serving them at a party.
Yesterday someone commented that they “pray that I don’t end up in meetings after this”. They later said they were kidding. But if you’re at all worried…I spend hours researching, writing about, crafting, photographing, and posting each drink for this project. Not exactly a fast-track to a substance abuse problem. Plus, pandemic. It’s not like I’m going to drive anywhere.
(Originally posted May 4, 2020)
