Tasty Dranks Out on the Town

While I was out "researching" a couple of weeks ago, I had some tasty cocktails I thought I'd tell y'all about. First up was the Americano served at Americano. Rumor has it this bar is super yuppified at happy hour, but I was there on a day when they were covering the patio for winter so it was nice and empty. The drink menu looks pretty good altogether, but I had this rocks drink at the start of a long night out. The Americano is Campari with chai-infused sweet vermouth with soda water and a slice of orange. It was dry and refreshing, and the Campari gave it that depth I'm always looking for in cocktails. Then I had the Earl Gray Boxcar at the restaurant Bong Su. The cocktail menu there features only six drinks, but I'd been wanting to try this one for a while. It has tea-infused rum, apricot liqueur, pineapple juice, and bitters; served up. It's a pretty amazing drink. The fruits in the drink are too fruity-sweet on their own and the tea and bitters are too sharp-dry on their own, so they go to war in your mouth. It's fun to taste the drink go from sweet to tart to a bone dry finish that makes you want to chase it with a soda after every sip. But then you go back for more. By the end of the drink though, the battlefield that was my mouth felt like it was ripped embedded with shrapnel and I was so ready to move on to something less... challenging. Recommended!