Wine of the Week: Cucumber Dream from Barfish

Wine of the Week: Cucumber Dream from Barfish

As we previously announced here, Toronto has recently welcomed a new cocktail destination, BarFish, to the King and Bathurst area. Last week I had the opportunity to try a Cucumber Dream, the delicious gin based cocktail at Barfish, part of Japanese restaurant  Blowfish. With a Vegas Hakkasan feel, the long, narrow bar décor was a beautiful and tasteful with a purple hue that was perfect for the subtly sexy atmosphere.

Head bartender, Nishan Nepulongoda, was nothing short of a magician behind the bar, slicing, muddling and serving his creative concoction, the Cucumber Dream. This drink is light, fresh, not too sweet and is topped with a slice of cucumber (to help me feel slightly healthy?) and is indeed its namesake- a dream!

 If you can’t make it down to Barfish any time soon, here is recipe for you to try at home:

The Cucumber Dream:

1.5 Bombay Sapphire gin

0.5 Calamansi juice

0.5 Aperol

2.0 Lime juice

1.0 Falernum syrup

1 dash lemon bitter

Muddle three slices of cucumber, double strain and garnish with cilantro

Have you you ever tried the Cucumber Dream or visited Barfish Cocktail Bar? Let us know in the comments what your favourite item on the menu is!

Photo Courtesy of : Pedro Marques, @tdotSPOT

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