Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Polite Provisions' Ocean Side
While Noble Experiment is the worst kept secret among San Diego saloons, its sister ship, Polite Provisions, has a number of secrets yet to be discovered.
“Here at Polite Provisions,” says bartender Aaron Zieske, “we’re trying not to go the route of being overdiluted with different techniques and tons of ingredients. We wanted all the ingredients to be expressed in a manner that’s not confusing.”
Aaron Zieske
The Ocean Side is just such a drink, Zieske claims. It’s a variation of a variation of a gimlet and something startling and different based on simple addition and subtraction.
“I think it’s a drink that encapsulates everything I’m looking for in a cocktail,” Zieske says. “It’s refreshing, easy to drink, versatile, and simple to make but with a complete depth of flavor. The simplest cocktails are always the best — and if you can execute them correctly, you’ve really got something.”
According to Zieske, the Ocean Side is bar manager and menu-architect Erick Castro’s gimlet-inspired answer to the Chicago-spawned South Side cocktail. It provides a gamut of flavors that work together, it seems, despite themselves.
“At the front, you’re going to get that citrus and the bright, herbaceous gin flavor,” Zieske says, “and sweetness on the mid-palate. Then it’s going to end with that savory herbaceous aspect from the bitters.”
To a cocktail shaker, add:
- 2 oz. Beefeater London Dry Gin
- ¾ oz. fresh lime juice
- ¾ oz. simple syrup
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 2 dashes celery bitters
- 1 pinch fresh mint leaves
Shake with vigor (to bruise mint leaves) and fine strain into cocktail glass, garnish with mint leaf.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Polite Provisions' Ocean Side
Polite Provisions' Ocean Side
While Noble Experiment is the worst kept secret among San Diego saloons, its sister ship, Polite Provisions, has a number of secrets yet to be discovered.
“Here at Polite Provisions,” says bartender Aaron Zieske, “we’re trying not to go the route of being overdiluted with different techniques and tons of ingredients. We wanted all the ingredients to be expressed in a manner that’s not confusing.”
Aaron Zieske
The Ocean Side is just such a drink, Zieske claims. It’s a variation of a variation of a gimlet and something startling and different based on simple addition and subtraction.
“I think it’s a drink that encapsulates everything I’m looking for in a cocktail,” Zieske says. “It’s refreshing, easy to drink, versatile, and simple to make but with a complete depth of flavor. The simplest cocktails are always the best — and if you can execute them correctly, you’ve really got something.”
According to Zieske, the Ocean Side is bar manager and menu-architect Erick Castro’s gimlet-inspired answer to the Chicago-spawned South Side cocktail. It provides a gamut of flavors that work together, it seems, despite themselves.
“At the front, you’re going to get that citrus and the bright, herbaceous gin flavor,” Zieske says, “and sweetness on the mid-palate. Then it’s going to end with that savory herbaceous aspect from the bitters.”
To a cocktail shaker, add:
- 2 oz. Beefeater London Dry Gin
- ¾ oz. fresh lime juice
- ¾ oz. simple syrup
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 2 dashes celery bitters
- 1 pinch fresh mint leaves
Shake with vigor (to bruise mint leaves) and fine strain into cocktail glass, garnish with mint leaf.
Comments