Monday, March 18, 2013
Steamboat Springs — It’s difficult to contend with the tradition from the Rio Grande Mexican Restuarant margarita.
The key recipe, that limits patrons to 3 per visit, would be a runaway champion for the best cocktail for that second consecutive year.
It’s exactly the same margarita that place the Rio into the spotlight, which left the initial Fort Collins restaurant 26 years back. Rio sells greater than 5 million from the 12-oz. salt-lined concoctions annually at its six Colorado restaurants. “It’s kind of our legend,” manager Wes Boyd states. “There’s plenty of speculation around the ingredients.”
The 3-marg limit only helps the reason. Regardless of whether you order it around the rocks, frozen or having a dash of mango, the Rio margarita packs a punch. And it’s this punch that likely causes it to be very popular. Around the Saturday of the year’s Winter Circus, Rio offered up 463 from the margaritas. Yesterday, they offered 325.
“It’s probably the most traditional, classic margarita you will get around,” Boyd states. Attempt to sneak up greater than the allotted three, and it’s additionally a recipe for any traditional hangover.
Second place
There’s grounds they refer to it as a Hurricane: It hits you want one.
It’s only fitting that the New Orleans-themed bar like Sunpie’s includes a concoction such as the Hurricane. The pink drink packs a wallop, supplying a taste of Bourbon Street to customers within the Boat.
It’s the signature drink of Sunpie’s, the recipe cultivated from former proprietors Mike and Colleen Miller. On busy weekends, the bar goes through 60 gallons from the concoction or even more once the grassy riverside lawn comes complete throughout the summer time. “It’s 20 ounces of fun,” states bartenders Richard “Gooch” Shine.
Try saying this drink’s name 10 occasions fast.
Third place
Gerry’s Berries, Sweetwater Grill
It truly is the flavour of summer time.
Created by manager Gerry Verdoner, Gerry’s Berries is a mix of niche vodka produced in house, Mike’s Hard Lemonade and fresh berries. That coffee even features a Slurpee straw to sip the berries. It’s become this type of hit at Sweetwater that it’s become its most widely used drink the entire year round. This is because its taste, that is pure berry delight. “You can’t taste not berries and deliciousness,” bartenders Dmitri Brown states.
Editor’s note: Worse-for-the-put on author Luke Graham professionally requested to become removed that coffee review category the coming year, after sampling this year’s winners all on a single night.
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