How To Make Award-Winning Tiki Cocktails in Chicago with Shelby Allison, Lost Lake Bar

When you’ve won Imbibe Cocktail Bar of the year, the Spirited Award for Best American Cocktail Bar at Tales of the Cocktail and been short-listed for the James Beard Foundation Award for best bar program, you might rest on your laurels. Well, not our guest today, she’s working as hard as ever.

I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.

With a father in the military, Shelby Allison traveled the world as a child, but has claimed Chicago as home now. Logan Square wouldn’t be the same without Lost Lake, the bar she opened more than five years ago to instant acclaim.

I was in Chicago for a small break and was able to meet her at Lost Lake. Five minutes after it opened, the seats were full and the drinks were ordered. After taking the first sip, I now want Lost Lake to be my local.

Our cocktail of the week is the Lost Lake.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Plantation Xaymaca
• .75 oz passionfruit syrup (Small Hands Foods)
• .75 oz fresh lime
• .5 oz fresh pineapple juice
• .25 oz Campari
• .25 oz Luxardo Maraschino

Method:

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with one cup crushed ice. Blend for three seconds using a single spindle drink mixer. Pour into tropical glass, top with more crushed ice. Garnish tropically!

You can find this recipe, more rum recipes and all the cocktails of the week at ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find all the ingredients in our shop.

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Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!

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