With the Tihar holidays coming up, you can celebrate this brief respite from work and stress by visiting these places and ordering these drinks or try to recreate them at home and celebrate. Either way, we guarantee you will have a good time.
Maya cocktail bar | Thamel
Bartender Madhav Basnet (Tek Basnet) has been a bartender at Maya Cocktail Bar for almost 25 years now. He learnt all his bartending skills from the owner of the place who learnt bartending in Europe and returned to the country to open this quaint little bar. Basnet only drinks on the job when there are a lot of patrons and he has to make a lot of drinks in a small amount of time. He’s been working at the bar for such a long time now that he hardly drinks mocktails and prefers imported hard liquor.
Mango Daiquiri
For this refreshing frozen cocktail you will need:
60 ml white rum
1 ½ spoon sugar
15 ml fresh lime juice
20 ml mango juice
2 slices of fresh mango
7 to 8 ice cubes
Instructions:
Place the mango juice, mango slice, sugar, and lime juice in a blender and process on high speed until smooth. Pour in the rum and blend well. When the mixture is smooth, add in the ice cubes and mix until slushy. Pour in a tall glass and enjoy your chilled drink!
Maya Special
To make this delicious mocktail you will need:
15 ml orange squash
15 ml lemon squash
10 ml fresh lime juice
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Soda water to top off
Ice as preferred
Instructions:
Put the ice in a glass and add the orange squash and the lemon squash. Top it off with the soda slowly and add the fresh lime juice.
Cosmopolitan
For this widely loved drink which is also known as Cosmo, you will need:
45 ml citrus vodka
(citron or absolute vodka with lime)
15 ml triple sec
15 ml lime juice or sour mix
Cranberry juice to top off
Ice to shake with
Cherry for garnish
Instructions:
Chill the glass well by placing ice cubes on it and putting it in the refrigerator. Add the citrus vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and the lime juice or sour mix in the shaker and shake well. “Shake the drink at least 35 to 40 times to ensure everything blends well together,” says Basnet. Take the glass out of the refrigerator and put aside the ice and pour your drink into the glass. Pop in the cherries, and enjoy the drink chilled.
Wicked Spoon, Fork and Rock
Jhamsikhel
Bar tenders Raju Khinju and Ronish Dangol both studied the art of Mixology at Flair Bartender Institute in Kumaripati. Khinju has been bartending for two years and gained experience working at Premiere Hotel in Malaysia. Dangol has been bartending for a year and freelances at various events.
Why not
To make this layered drink, you will need:
40 ml gold tequila
50 ml guava juice
15 ml grenadine syrup
15 ml Curacao bleu
Half a lemon
Sprite to top off
Ice
Instructions:
Put a couple of cubes of ice in the glass and pour in the Curacao bleu. In a shaker, pour in the tequila, guava juice and grenadine syrup, and ice and shake well. Pour it into the glass carefully, without the ice, and top off the drink with sprite by placing a spoon inside the glass, directly over the drink so as to not disturb the layers and drink up!
Evil lady
To make this dramatic sounding drink, you will need:
2 scoops of strawberry
ice-cream
15 ml of grenadine
20 ml of pineapple juice
5 ml sugar syrup
Orange juice to top off
Instructions:
Blend the ice-cream with the pineapple juice and pour it into the glass. Add in the grenadine and stir thoroughly. Carefully top off with orange juice and enjoy your drink. We wonder why it’s named Evil lady though, because it doesn’t get you drunk.
Manny’s Eatery and Tapas Bar | Jawalakhel
Manoj Basnet, owner of Manny’s Eatery and Tapas Bar, used to own a bar of the same name in Manhattan for nine years. His bartending skills are purely based on street knowledge he picked up from his college days where he had to work and support himself. He believes that all bartenders should be well versed with the characteristics of all the liquor they are working with and emphasizes that the drinks need to be mixed properly; which is why the trade is named Mixology in the first place.
Cranberry cooler
To make this drink to enjoy on a warm afternoon, you will need:
Half a glass cranberry juice
Half a glass soda
15 ml lime juice or sour mix
Cherry or cranberry to garnish
Ice
Instructions:
Fill the glass to the top with ice and add the cranberry juice, soda, lime juice and the garnish. Stir the drink to mix the ingredients together and your drink is ready.
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