Cocktail

Lou's Army Navy

Mary Anne Porto & Dutch Kills

Coupe Glass

Ingredients

2 oz

Gin
0.75 oz

Lemon Juice
0.5 oz

Rich Orgeat

See embedded recipe
1 each

Cherry

Cocktail cherry, sunk to the bottom of the coupe
2 dashes

Aromatic

Angostura bitters, floated on top

Instructions

Combine gin, lemon juice, and rich orgeat in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake vigorously until well-chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe. Drop a cocktail cherry to the bottom of the glass, then dash Angostura bitters across the surface.

About

A house riff on the classic Army & Navy cocktail served at Dutch Kills in Queens, honoring a longtime regular FDNY firefighter. Bright and nutty with a lemon orgeat sour backbone, finished with a sunken cocktail cherry and a float of Angostura bitters.

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