The Fifty Best Restaurants and Champagne Cocktails       welcome

To some purists, the mixing of champagne with anything might seem unthinkable.
For cocktail lovers, champagne becomes a choice ingredient
with which to add other interesting flavours.

These are the fifty best.
Nine times nine cheers!

Champagne Cobbler
1/2 tsp lemon juice         1/2 tsp curaçao
thin slice of orange         chilled champagne

Fill a large goblet half full of cracked ice. Add lemon juice, curaçao, and orange slice. Stir and fill glass with champagne. Stir again gently.

Bellini (add fresh peach puree and juice)
Black Velvet (add chilled stout)
Mimosa (add orange juice)
Nelson's Blood (add tawny port)
Poinsettia (add cranberry juice)

Champagne Sherbet Punch
Old Waldorf Champagne Punch
Aristocrat Sparkling Punch
Champagne Cup
Empire Punch

Golden Millennium
(King Cole Bar, St. Regis Hotel, NYC)

Place gold leaf in the bottom of a champagne flute,
add a dash of Liqueur 43, and fill with champagne.

Magna Carta
1-1/2 ounce well-chilled teguilla       lime juice
1 ounce well-chilled Triple Sec         salt
champagne

Dip the rim of a chilled wine glass in lime juice, then salt. Pour in teguilla and Triple Sec, then fill with champagne. Stir gently.

Kir Royale

Pour iced champagne into a large chilled wine glass,
add 1/2 ounce of crème de cassis, and stir gently.
Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

Regent's Punch

Three bottles of Champagne, two of Madeira, one of German white wine, an ounce of Curaçao, a quart of brandy, a pint of rum, two bottles of seltzer, four pounds
of raisins, oranges and lemons, sugar, and all diluted
with green tea.

Morning Glory

Fill Collins glass with ice chunks, pour 1/2 ounce Cointreau, 1/4 ounce cherry brandy, and a dash of Angostura bitters. Add orange/ pineapple slices.
Fill with champagne.

Arise My Love

Put one teaspoon of crème de menthe in a
champagne glass, then fill with champagne.

Savoy 2000
(American Bar, The Savoy, London)

Shake 2/3 ounce gin, 2/3 ounce Midori, 1/3 ounce Limoncello, 1-2/3 ounce mango juice. Pour into glass frosted with sugar, and top with champagne.

Queen's Cousin

Combine 1 ounce vodka, 1/2 ounce Grand Marnier,
1/2 ounce of fresh lime juice, and 1 tsp Triple Sec.
Gently add 3 ounces of well-chilled champagne.
Top with 2 dashes Angostura bitters.

Champagne Normande
Caribbean Champagne
French Revolution
Imperial Fizz
King's Peg
Buck's Fizz

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