Cable Car
A warming spiced-rum sour with orange curaçao and fresh lemon juice, rimmed with cinnamon sugar for a spiced, festive finish.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz spiced rum
- 0.75 oz orange curaçao
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz simple syrup
- Cinnamon sugar for rimming
- Orange twist, to garnish
Instructions
- 1Rim a chilled coupe with cinnamon sugar.
- 2Add rum, curaçao, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a shaker with ice.
- 3Shake until well chilled, strain into the prepared coupe, and garnish with an orange twist.
Origin & Story
Tony Abou-Ganim created the Cable Car at the Starlight Room at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco in 1996. Named after the city's famous cable cars, it was designed to bring warmth and holiday spirit to the hotel's signature cocktail list — cinnamon sugar on the rim was an innovation that foreshadowed the craft cocktail movement's obsession with enhanced garnishes.
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