On Friday we made a date to drop by Zeta Bar at the Hilton Sydney. For summer they have a cryogenic sorbet and cocktail bar happening on the terrace where you can get cocktails in sorbet form, champagne ice blocks and nitro puffs. It’s always nice when something exciting happens in the bar scene here! I’ve always liked the drinks menu at Zeta, they have some pretty interesting things on their exhaustive list like this classic:
Raspberry mule
It was served ‘deconstructed’ on a platter with candied ginger. Yummy!
Smoked bacon manhattans
This is one of their infusion cocktails. Tastes a lot better than it sounds, but doesn’t it look delicious? The bacon flavour wasn’t overpowering and the strip of bacon was delicious to nibble on. I love bacon! This was the main reason I wanted to go to Zeta after reading a tweet about it..
They had something else called La Premiere and is meant to be a cocktail (ha) of popcorn flavours in a glass. Something to try the next visit I guess.
Nitro puffs
Inspired by Heston Blumenthal’s crazy take on nouveau gastronomy (read: molecular manipulation), this is meant to be a cocktail in a puff. It was dispensed from a canister like whipped cream and spooned into this bowl of liquid nitrogen until it freezes solid. When you put it in your mouth it disappears in a cloud of white smoke bursting from your nostrils.. only drawback is that the surface of your tongue where it hits will be numb for a fair while from the sub zero temperatures. Tasty!
We also had some of the sorbets, I picked a negroni one which was fairly strong tasting in sorbet form. Would have loved to try more but due to the nature of alcoholic beverages there is only so much one can imbibe :)
Yup, definitely a happy bunny despite the rainy Friday evening!
