Cocktail Menu: Haddingtons in Austin, Texas
January 06, 2011
The just-opened restaurant Haddingtons in Austin, Texas has a cocktail menu that makes me thirsty. The drinks are by head bartender Bill Norris, formerly of Fino.
-house cocktails-
The Waldorf #2: straight apple brandy, nocino, celery bitters, stirred, over ice $11
Dover to Calais*: navy strength rum, green chartreuse, orgeat, lime, peychaud’s bitters, up and frothy $11
Fox Room Swizzle: vodka, falernum, lime, mole bitters, jägermeister, icy cold, crushed ice $10
Apple Orchard: bourbon, orgeat, apple shrub, peychaud’s bitters stirred, up. $10
Duck Fat Sazerac: duck fat infused rye, peychaud’s bitters, absinthe rinse, served cold and neat. $9
Smoking Jacket: anejo rum, porter, amaretto, scotch, whole egg and nutmeg. shaken and up $10*
Conundrum: blue corn whisky, sloe gin, fernet branca $12
Olorosso & Apple: olorosso sherry, apple shrub, orange bitters, stirred, over ice $10
Haddingtons’ Word: single malt whisky, maraschino, strega, lemon, shaken and up $15
-classics-
Gin and Haddington’s Tonic: the classic pre-dinner highball, done with our homemade tonic $9
Moscow Mule: the drink that made vodka famous, with homemade ginger beer, lime $9
Japanese Cocktail: cognac, orgeat, aromatic bitters $10
Blood & Sand: scotch, cherry heering, sweet vermouth, orange $10
Stinger: cognac and crème de menthe over crushed ice. be careful with this one. $11
Aviation: gin, maraschino, lemon, crème de violet $10
Tried the Dover to Calais, the Smoking Jacket and the Duck Fat Sazerac at the soft opening. Fantastic cocktails!
Posted by: Mark | January 06, 2011 at 09:10 AM
Love that we are getting such amazing new creative establishments in Austin! Also tried the new Congress Bar and the cocktail menu rivals or (might I say it?)surpasses Haddington's. Yeah - Go Austin!
Posted by: Julia | January 08, 2011 at 10:56 AM
I dont want my rye whiskey to be ruined with duck fat...come on people...stop this nonsense..
Posted by: Todd | January 24, 2011 at 03:41 PM