Little Red Corvette Jujube, Chapel Hill http://www.jujuberestaurant.com $9 The Little Red Corvette is made with agave syrup, tequila, and hibiscus nectar.  It was served in a double old-fashioned glass.  The drink was a beautiful carmine pink at bottom, with the shade getting lighter the higher up it went. Hibiscus is a great choice for a
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The Whippet Jujube http://www.jujuberestaurant.com Jujube’s bartenders definitely know how to make a good cocktail.  The whippet is a gem of a drink with Finlandia grapefruit-flavored vodka, Cava, and lychee juice.    It looked like a Lemon Drop minus the sugary rim, an elegant, white gold drink with an ice shard layer that I love.  The taste
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Peach Tea Tyler’s Taproom, Carrboro www.tylerstaproom.com I was drawn to the Peach Tea cocktail while out with friends last weekend to celebrate my husband’s birthday.  I’m a big fan of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka, which is saying a lot since I don’t like sweet tea in its natural form at all, by which I mean
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Cancun Cocktail Bandido’s Mexican Café Woodcroft, Durham http://www.bandidoscafe.com The Cancun Cocktail, served in a hurricane glass, is the color of a salmon fillet.  Unappetizing description aside, it’s a great drink with dark rum, peach schnapps; orange, pineapple and papaya juices.  Peach schnapps would overpower a lighter base but it serves to mellow out the dark
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Fiesta Bandido’s Mexican Cafe 4711 Hope Valley Road Woodcroft Shopping Center, Durham www.bandidoscafe.com The Fiesta is a tropical cocktail made with Malibu rum, crème de banane, and pineapple juice.  The noxiously yellow drink came in a hurricane glass with plenty of ice.  The banana is apparent on first sip but is overpowered by the pineapple
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Mandarin Crush Thai Cafe 2501 University Drive Durham http://www.thaicafenc.com The Mandarin Crush is a cherry brandy cocktail served in a martini glass with two cherries at the bottom.  It resembles a golden and pink-tinged sunset, which certainly set me up to enjoy its flavors. And enjoy it I did.  The cocktail is mildly sweet with
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Wild Mango Lemonade Connolly’s Irish Pub *CLOSED* Cary This vacuous light yellow drink came served in a pint glass with plenty of ice, which often translates to a watered down cocktail.  The Wild Mango Lemonade was no exception to that rule.  It was made with Finlandia Wildberry and Mango vodkas, sweet and sour mix, Sierra
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Flirtini West 94th Street Pub Woodcroft Shopping Center Durham This cocktail came with an unappealing pink film on top, but that is often the case for drinks made with crème de anything.  This one was crème de banane and its compatriots in the martini glass were watermelon pucker and vodka.  I tend to stay away
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Pirate’s Punch Sunset Grille-Cary Harrison Pointe Shopping Center Cary The Pirate’s Punch is, of course, a rum drink.  With pirate in the name, you wouldn’t expect any other base, would you?  This was good old Captain Morgan, mixing it up with some amaretto and pineapple juice.  The flavors were disparate but that was fine; it
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Caipirinha Mez Research Triangle Park Durham My Mez review Caipirinha is a great cocktail that a friend introduced me to a few years back.  It consists of limes muddled with sugar and cachaça, a rum-like Brazilian alcohol.  Mez’s caipirinha has all these things but the proportions were a bit off to me.  I’d have liked
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