Design + Cocktails = The Aviary

We continue this week, highlighting the cool trends in cocktail culture around the country. A few months back, we featured a "Inspiring Infusion" post, about "The Aviary" in Chicago and their Porthole Infusion Vessel..This week we go back to Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas of The Aviary, inspired by their creativity with cocktails + design. The cocktail aptly named "In the Rocks" is an old fashioned cocktail filled inside a egg-like sphere of ice, via a slingshot! Pretty cool and exquisite design...

 

"In the Rocks"

This cocktail is called "Ginger" which consists of mixture of Ginger Snow, Peychaud Bitters, Fresno Chili, Mint, and Shiso. Served with a side of vodka which you pour into your snow mixture and stir with a lemongrass stalk... The mixologists clearly have taken the art of cocktails into a class all of their own. The Aviary offers a $165 10-course cocktail tasting at the Kitchen Table, well worth the experience... Enjoy!

 

"Ginger" / photo by: catherine oddenino