In fact, the bar’s progressive cocktails seek to engage all the senses
Photos: Smoke & Mirrors
The Playful Eye.
That’s what the folks at destination bar Smoke & Mirrors call its brand-new drinks menu. Herein begs the question: How playful are the spirits then?
Launched in November, the boozy series invites merrymakers to imbibe on 10 invigorating cocktails, carefully concocted to deliver complex flavours that echo the drinks’ corresponding tongue-in-cheek names.
“I’ve always been intrigued by how a chef would plate a cocktail if they were behind the bar,” said Head Bartender and the menu’s creator Yugnes Suselam. “For a year, my team and I researched unique flavour profiles and methods used by chefs who push culinary and imbibing boundaries.”
In other words, The Playful Eye is a liquefied and boozed up reflection of food, where drinkers can find ingredients such as milk meringue, gomasio of black sesame and salt, and even a red cabbage shrub in their blends.
So are the cocktails worth the one-year foray? Only one way to find out at Smokes & Mirror.
Purple Gringo ($24)
Susela’s curiosity of integrating botanicals into agave spirits must have been quelled with the introduction of Purple Gringo. While the cocktail is concocted from tequila blanc boasting fresh juniper berries, it seems the garnish is king where drinkers can taste the offering of dehydrated red cabbage and miso caviar.
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