Four Seasons Book of Cocktails

Comforting as an old sweater

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce calvados

½ ounce gin

1 teaspoon heather honey

Lemon twist for garnish

Combine spirits and honey in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.

Named for a traditional Scottish fiddling tune

2½ ounces Aberlour a’bunadh Scotch

1½ ounces B & B

1 or 2 splashes still water

Combine Scotch and liqueur in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and top with water.

With the colors of fall

2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label

1 ounce Punt è Mes

1 ounce Kahlúa

Club soda

Orange twist for garnish

Combine Scotch, vermouth, and liqueur in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and pour with ice into glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.

The drink of a longtime regular

2½ ounces 25-year-old Macallan Scotch

Club soda on ice as a chaser

Pour Scotch into ice-filled rocks glass. Serve with club soda on the side.

Tinted with red grenadine

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce Godiva white chocolate liqueur

½ ounce light cream

¼ teaspoon grenadine

Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and strain into glass.

A toast to Scotland’s randy poet

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce sweet vermouth

1 teaspoon Bénédictine

Lemon twist for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.

Named for the nineteenth-century Scottish soldiers who tipped their fur caps to the angels

3 ounces Glenlivet 12-year-old Scotch

1 ounce Southern Comfort

Orange twist for garnish

Combine Scotch and liqueur in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Pour with ice into glass and garnish.

The name of the orange liqueur triple sec means “triple dry,” yet the taste is sweet.

2 ounces Scotch

½ ounce triple sec

½ ounce fresh sour mix

1 dash bitters of choice

Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and strain into glass.

Our twist on the original Rob Roy. Before straining the drink, moisten the rim of the glass with the orange twist.

3 ounces Scotch

1 teaspoon sweet vermouth

1 dash orange bitters

Orange twist for garnish

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.

With juice of the blood orange. The sweet exclamation point in this cocktail is a maraschino cherry marinated in Grand Marnier.

Maraschino cherry

½ ounce or more Grand Marnier

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce Galliano

1 ounce blood orange juice

Place cherry in a shot glass and pour in Grand Marnier to cover; let soak for 8 to 12 hours. Combine Scotch, Galliano, and juice in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish with your extra-special little red fruit.

A WORD FROM THE BARTENDERS

If you ever order a shaken cocktail at The Four Seasons and notice a bit of froth on the surface, don’t worry. It’s a good thing—a little pasteurized egg white in our fresh sour mix, which froths up as the shaker does its thing.

Enjoy it or else.

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce amaretto

Pour Scotch and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.

Perchance sipped by the good folk of Camelot?

3 ounces Chivas Regal

1 ounce Baileys Irish Cream

1 to 3 black currants for garnish

Combine Scotch and liqueur in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.

A post-round pick-me-up

2 ounces Scotch

½ ounce Noilly Prat sweet vermouth

½ ounce lemon juice

1 dash Angostura bitters

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.

Loch Lomond calls . . .

Crushed ice

3 ounces Glenmorangie 18-year-old Scotch

Bottled still water to taste

Fill a tulip glass with crushed ice and add Scotch. Top with water and stir.

Irish whiskey subs for the usual Drambuie.

1½ ounces Scotch

1½ ounces Irish whiskey

Combine whiskeys in ice-filled rocks glass and stir.

Tom Collins’s Scottish cousin

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce fresh sour mix

3 ounces club soda

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Orange slice for garnish

Combine Scotch and sour mix in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and pour with ice into glass. Top with club soda and garnish.

The right stuff

2½ ounces Glenmorangie 18-year-old

Scotch

1½ ounces Grand Marnier

Club soda

Orange twist for garnish

Combine Scotch and liqueur in an ice-filled highball glass. Stir, top with club soda to taste, and garnish.

For grapefruit lovers

1 ounce Scotch

½ ounce dry vermouth

1½ ounces grapefruit juice

Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and strain into glass.

The color comes from black currant

2½ ounces Scotch

1½ ounces crème de cassis

Club soda

Combine Scotch and liqueur in highball glass. Add ice, stir, and top with club soda to taste.

A classic cocktail dating from the Gilded Age

2½ ounces Scotch

½ ounce sweet vermouth

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Combine Scotch and vermouth in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.

Two Scots in a glass

1½ ounces Scotch

1 ounce Drambuie

Pour Scotch and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.

Scotch with an Italian liqueur

Crushed ice

2 ounces Scotch

1 ounce Galliano

Orange twist for garnish

Fill a tulip glass with crushed ice and add Scotch and liqueur. Stir and garnish.

Ginger ale, that is

2 ounces Scotch

Ginger ale

Pour Scotch into ice-filled highball glass and top with ginger ale to taste.

Rich and velvety enough for a czar

1 ounce Dewars White Label Scotch

1 ounce white crème de cacao

1 ounce heavy cream

Nutmeg for sprinkling

Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and sprinkle with nutmeg.

Orange flavor x 3. The French liqueur Cointreau is made from the dried peels of oranges grown in Curaçao, Spain, and Latin America.

3 ounces Scotch

½ ounce Cointreau

½ ounce orange juice

Orange peel spiral for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.

A Four Seasons Pool Room favorite

3 ounces Scotch

3 dashes Angostura bitters

5 ounces club soda

Orange twist for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in ice-filled highball glass. Stir and garnish.