A pleasing drink from one of LA’s most creative bartenders.
This drink was created by Los Angeles bartender Tobin Shea who runs the beverage program over at Redbird in Little Tokyo, this Cocktail’s namesake neighborhood. Redbird is a restaurant opened by LA Chef Neil Fraser and you can find it inside a historic Cathedral also owned by Fraser. It is one of the most popular restaurants in the city offering I guess what you’d call “New American Cuisine.”
Little Tokyo is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles which takes up about five city blocks. It is one of only three official “Japantowns” in the United States and was declared a historic landmark in 1995. It is one of LA’s most historic and popular neighborhoods so you should definitely stop by if you find yourself in town anytime soon (or at least after this whole COVID thing blows over).
Tobin Shea started bartending to pay the bills while in college and has gone on to make a name for himself behind the bar at such LA staples as El Cid and Circa. He has, for the past several years found himself as beverage director at Redbird. And lucky for us, so we can have such wonderful cocktails as this one!
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Little Tokyo
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Nigori Sake
- .75 oz Cappelletti Apertivo
- .75 oz Sweet Vermouth
- .25 oz Yuzu Juice
Garnish
Instructions
- Add ingredients to mixing glass
- Add ice and stir until chilled
- Strain into glass with a large rock of ice
- Garnish with Orange Twist
