The Japanese 75 at Alchemy in South Park offers an Asian twist on the classic champagne cocktail the French 75.
When the work week is finally over, what better way to unwind than with a cocktail?!? In honor of Fridays, I’m starting a new Bubbly Girl feature called Drink of the Week.
This week’s cocktail is the Japanese 75, an Asian riff on the classic champagne cocktail the French 75, which stars gin and sour. Frankie Thaheld, who makes super inventive and delicious drinks at George’s at the Cove in La Jolla, created the Japanese 75 for the new South Park neighborhood restaurant called Alchemy.
Frankie’s drink is tart-sweet and fragrant with Plymouth gin; it gets its tang from yuzu juice. In case you hadn’t heard of it, the yuzu is a fragrant Japanese citrus fruit that’s intensely sour. The juice is available at nearly any Asian market or on Amazon.com; a little bit goes a long way and it also makes a tasty lemonade.
Japanese 75
