In the Land of Cocktails

3 — 2 –1… We have lift off!

Posted by Ti Adelaide Martin on February 19th, 2009

What a night!  The entrance to Café Ade­laide was lined with staff greet­ing guests with cham­pagne cock­tails as the Cock­tail Chicks draped them in white boas.

The web­site was so well designed by the incred­i­bly fun and even more tal­ented gals at Clock­work that we had to really push the enve­lope for our liq­uid con­coc­tions to match the tech­no­log­i­cal genius of the site.  

Lu set up a cock­tail class at one bar, teach­ing imbibers how to make the per­fect Saz­erac while the rest of the gang at The Swiz­zle Stick whipped up Orig­i­nal Lime Daiquiris (my favorite)…

Side­cars (Lally’s favorite…)

…and of course our sig­na­ture Ade­laide Swizzles.

Exec­u­tive Chef Chris Lusk put together a dyna­mite menu of imag­i­na­tive hors d’oeuvres that paired per­fectly with Lu’s liba­tions.  Coconut Cur­ried Gulf Shrimp with the daiquiri tasted like a gor­geous sum­mer day in the Caribbean, the rye whiskey in the Saz­erac stood up to the smok­i­ness in the Neuski’s bacon Crusted Chicken, and the Side­car was just del­i­cate enough to let the fla­vors of fall shine in Chef Chris’ Wild Mush­room and Goat Cheese Streudel.

After a rau­cous night, Lally leaned over towards me, star­ing at a room cov­ered in rem­nant white feath­ers from hun­dreds of boas and, laugh­ing, said, “it looks like the cock­tail chicks had a fight.”

It was truly a plea­sure to cel­e­brate with the In The Land of Cock­tails crew.  Nancy Lyons, Nan­cylee Myatt, Paige Bern­hardt, Geor­gia Rags­dale, Angela Hart­man and Lu Brow are one heck of a gang.  Every­one brings their own exper­tise and cre­ativ­ity.  Liv­ing in Min­nesota, Cal­i­for­nia and New Orleans, the oppor­tu­nity to meet up is rare.  On this night we took advan­tage … none of us were awake par­tic­u­larly early the next day.  After all, the sun rises at 10 am in the land of cocktails.