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holiday drinks
The buzz on
booze
Local restaurants pour delicious, holiday
flavors just in time for get-togethers
LAKE OSWEGO REVIEW
DECEMBER 2012
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Story by
Drew Dakessian
Clarke’s Restaurant
455 Second St.
If you crave a drink that connotes coziness, look
no further than the Pumpkin-Gingerbread Marti-
ni. Made with Pumpkin Smash Schnapps, Voyant
Chai Cream Liqueur and Myers’s Dark Rum, this
drink is a little sweet, a little spicy, and a lot deli-
cious.
Perhaps you seek to imbibe the season in a mar-
tini glass. If so, the Pomegranate-Orange Martini
is for you. It is comprised of pomegranate juice,
Grand Marnier, fresh lime juice and Clarke’s
house-made Mandarin Vodka, which serves as the
base.
Jefe Mexican Restaurant
16360 SW Boones Ferry Road
Bar manager Aaron Peck’s take on the tiki zombie
cocktail of the 1930s, the 28 Minutes Later com-
bines flavors of apple juice, raw sugar, red wine,
cinnamon and cayenne pepper with the grape-
fruit, cinnamon and sugar flavors of Don’s Mix
and is tied together with a heady mixture of Cru-
zan Aged Light Rum, Lemon Hart Demerara Rum
151, lemon juice and house made grenadine.
Terrace Kitchen
Restaurant & Bar
485 Second St.
“Smooth, cool and popular anytime” is the Velvet
Elvis. Made with Vodka, Baileys Irish Cream,
Kahlua and Creme de Cacao, this cocktail is
served in a chilled martini glass with a chocolate
sugar rim, and is sure to satisfy amateur mixolo-
gists and chocoholics alike.
The Velvet Elvis from Terrace Kitchen is made with Vodka, Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlua and Creme de Cacao and finished with chocolate
sugar.
Try the Pumpkin-Gingerbread Martini — made with Pumpkin Smash Schnapps,
Voyant Chai Cream Liqueur and Myers’s Dark Rum — or the Pomegranate-Orange
Martini — from pomegranate juice, Grand Marnier, fresh lime juice and Mandarin
Vodka — from Clarke’s Restaurant.
The 28 Minutes Later combines flavors of apple juice, raw sugar, red
wine, cinnamon and cayenne papper with grapefruit, cinnamon and
sugar — available at Jefe Mexican Restaurant.
Lake Oswego is home to
a bevy of beverages that will
send your new year’s resolution
to drink less right out
the window.
All you cocktail connoisseurs
need not venture north to some Portland
Pearl District haunt to find the drink of your dreams. Lake Oswego is home
to a bevy of beverages that will send your new year’s resolution to drink less
right out the window.
Photography by
Vern Uyetake