Where: Boutique, 506 Church, at Maitland, 647-705-0006
How: 1 oz Tanqueray, ¾ oz Gekkeikan sake, ¾ oz lemon juice, ginger syrup. Shake, serve over ice with a lemon twist.
How much: $8
The experience: Imagine if NeoCitran were both cold and yummy. Come summer, I suspect the Simple Sake will flow in great tidal currents across the deck of the Boutique patio. In the meantime, it’s a vivacious, light and reasonably novel harbinger of fair weather.
Maybe it’s hopeless yokelism, but it also seems like the perfect drink to issue forth from bartenders Julien Salomone and Sebastian Moya, who obtained their considerable swizzling chops on the French Riviera.
“I learned the classics back home,” says Salomone. “It was just like cooking.”
That sort of je ne sais quoi is worth a meagre eight bucks all on its own.
