Friday's Featured Cocktail from Kingswood

Kingswood
Kingswood

You are in luck!  Today we share two “Friday’s Featured Cocktails” from Kingswood, a fantastic Greenwich Village restaurant with an impeccable list of bespoke specialty cocktails.  (It's also one of our personal favorites; the food is incredible!)  

42 Below Vodka
42 Below Vodka

Friday's Featured Cocktail #1:  Ivy League

What you need:

  • 2 oz Vodka (Kingswood prefers 42 Below)
  • 1 oz lime juice
  • ¾ oz simple syrup
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • Rose water

How you make it:

Add all of the ingredients to a shaker except the rose water.  Shake vigorously.  Strain into a cocktail glass.  Mist with rose water.  Serve up.

Friday's Featured Cocktail #2:  Kingswood No. 2 

What you need:

  • 1 oz gin (Kingswood uses Tanqueray)
  • 1 oz Pimms 
  • Club soda
  • ½ oz Grenadine
  • 1 lime wedge
  • 1 orange wedge
  • 1 lemon wedge
  • 2 cucumber slices
  • 1 mint leaf

How you make it:

Build in a highball glass.  Quick muddle.   Add ice.  Top with club soda.  Garnish with a cucumber slice and serve up.

If you live in New York or are planning a visit, we hope you'll stop by Kingswoodfor dinner and a cocktail.   The award-winning menu is a contemporary interpretation of Australian pub fare by an English chef.  We love the Australian lamb shank and char-grilled barramundi.

Kingswood is on 121 West 10th Street near Greenwich Avenue.