Usually Empress drinks look a little goofy to me in how saturated in color they end up, but this is very delicate and tasteful. Well done!

Interesting; thanks for doing the research there!

I’ve had a similar drink called the Fairy Godmother, by Amy Traynor, and really liked it! I’m sure I’d like this one as well.

Agreed; I’ve been using that mezcal exclusively since I first ran into it last year. So good!

I’ve tried that drink; I love it!

This has been on my list forever! Aquavit is common by me and so is always writing down recipes that use it.

Looks incredible!

This sounds really intriguing. I’m putting it on my list!

I love this drink! Sometimes tiki drinks are so sweet they’re hard to sequence in a dinner situation; with the Campari I feel like it takes the tiki paradigm and makes it work in the before-dinner context.

Yeah, 100% the dragon fruit! I was shocked at the color; it’s a super deep purple with these small black seeds, and in the puréed form in which I got it, it was super goopy and thick.

Well, new place on my list! I didn’t know Eleven Madison Park had a downstairs cocktail bar 👀

Sounds wonderful and looks great! Many tiki drinks end up looking a dull brown, but this one has a great color to it.

I’ve really enjoyed Del Maguey, as well as Sombra. But I also like trying new ones that I come across!

Oh wow, I just eeked in there with my Mai Tai! And it goes without saying that you took three of the top 5 spots… kudos!

Thanks for the list.

Not sure, it might! Good suggestion on a little bit of spice, I bet that would add a great dimension!

I love that swizzle! Too bad chartreuse is so hard to come by now. Still working through old bottles?

I found it to be pretty well balanced! Probably depends a bit on how wild your mezcal is, too. This one is pretty smoky, which helps.

I hadn’t heard of it until I got a tiki cocktail book; it comes up a lot in that context! It’s a super syrupy, sweet, warm spiced liqueur. It’s really quite delicious!

What in the world! I love this idea, it reminds me of something I saw in an Aviary book with popcorn-infused whiskey.

I find that name to be write funny. Looks good!