Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Adult milkshakes and treats

Towering drinks, lavishly garnished with candies, cake, cookies and other sweets, became Instagram hits.

Top 10 Cocktail Trends

Taco Bell Cantina

Along with wine and beer, Taco Bell Cantina departs from its quick-service roots by offering up spiked Twisted Freezes.

Instagram is a driving force in much of today’s cocktail creation, and operators are using eye-catching glassware, funky garnishes and signature ice to make their drinks stand out.

The Old-Fashioned, Manhattan, sidecar and other 19th- and 20th-century staples are making a comeback on cocktail lists.

Houlihan’s carves its own block ice to create oversized cubes, and it infuses ice with other ingredients to signaturize some of its cocktails.

Bartenders balance the Bee’s Knees cocktail with the same three ingredients that made it famous during Prohibition: gin, lemon juice and honey. 

The Los Angeles concept offered the Deadly Fog, crafted with gin, cognac, rum, orgeat syrup made by steeping avocado pits, and orange and lemon stock as a mixer.

Bartenders turned into bar chefs when they started borrowing ingredients from restaurant kitchens to craft fresh, culinary-focused cocktails.

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